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On September 24, 1914 young Annie Martin, mother of two, was
attacked and violently murdered while sleeping in her own bed.
No one was ever caught or brought to justice, in this unsolved
murder case, which haunted the town of Braggs, Oklahoma and
the Martin family for decades. After years of research, author
Shannon Rudy has unfurled the mystery surrounding her Grandmother's tragic end.
This well written book is heavily documented with extensive original research including many newspaper articles, interviews, photographs
and evidence of police cover-ups, yet it reads like a story that will
engage readers' imaginations as well as their sympathies for a young
women doomed from childhood to a life of tragedy. Living in the heart
of Cherokee Indian Territory during the tumultuous beginnings of the
Twentieth Century, Annie is orphaned when her father is murdered
and her mother swept away by tornado. She is adopted by her uncle,
only to be abused and then viciously murdered in her twenties by an
assailant unnamed until now.
Bloody Handprints presents a classic cold case file
as it puts the pieces together to solve the mystery and
unravel the web of deciet, incompetence, incest, greed
and desperation behind the untimely death of
Annie Martin.
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