True Crime In New England - Vermont (True Crime in America)

Twenty cases. Thirty years. A state that likes to think nothing happens here.

More than 400 pages

True Crime New England — Vermont Book four of a six-volume series, chronicling murder cases from 1965 to 1995.

From the shores of Lake Champlain to the remote hollows of the Northeast Kingdom — from the Green Mountain spine down to the Connecticut River Valley along the New Hampshire line — these are the killings Vermont’s postcard image has never quite made room for. Domestic tragedies, unsolved disappearances, cold cases still technically open, and crimes that shattered towns too small to ever fully recover. Some were solved at trial. Some were never solved at all.

This is not a book about the people who did these things.

It’s a book about the people they happened to — the wives, husbands, children, and neighbors whose lives ended in violence, and whose stories are worth more than a headline and a forgotten court date. These twenty cases carry readers into the cities and the back roads of Vermont alike, into places where everyone still remembers, and places where the memory has nearly died out entirely. Every one of them is owed a place in the record.

Drawn from original sources — archived newspaper coverage, court documents, and reporting from the time each crime occurred — this volume traces three decades of Vermont history with a level of depth anthology readers rarely get. No case is compressed into a page or two just to fit twenty into a book. Each is built from documented fact, told with the seriousness the victims are owed.

If true crime, cold cases, and real regional history are what you’re after, this one was written for you.