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North Coast/Tessa LightyTom Carr’s book, “Blood on the Mitten.”PEOPLELocal author delves into murdersFROM PAGE IEtwo daughters and assorted siblings, inlaws and nieces, confessed in 1903 to killing her brother and his family, after a Kalkaska County prosecutor and coroner had the Murphys’ bodies dug up and tested for rat poison. She was arrested in Walton Junction near Kingsley while boarding a train for Traverse City.“That’s one that grabs me, because she was so proper, such a respected woman,” said Carr, an award-winning independent writer and journalist who ferreted out the stories from books, old newspapers and other accounts. “They were all fascinating in their own way.”Carr researched and wrote “Blood on the Mitten” last winter, after several ideas for books and screenplays simmered on the back burner. The longtime Record-Eagle reporter worked at the paper at the time of two area cases in the book, including the 1998 shootingNew Year’s Eve murder of Jack Keyes and girlfriend Kathy Radtke.He got editing and design help from Heather Shaw, of Traverse City-based Mission Point Press.The company’s Chandler Lake Imprints published the book — a mix of tabloid and comicing. Just looking at the programming on TV andGive Dad the Gift to Defeat the Squirrels!
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Traverse City North Coast
Traverse City, Michigan, US
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