Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting into a house by pretending to be a person looking for a room to rent or inspecting a house that was for sale, and then strangling the landlady, often followed by having sex with the dead body. Robbery was frequently a secondary motive.
In 1896, in Bear River, NS, someone brutally murdered Annie Kempton. Suspicion quickly focused on Peter Wheeler.
In 1905 an energetic man with grand plans arrives in Nova Scotia. He has a wonderful way with words, and entrancing stories
Enter Mickey Kelly's noir world, a surreal complexity of scam artists, drug dealers, thieves, mobsters, and killers.
What happens to convicted criminals when the media has moved on to more urgent issues? This is the rest of the story
Quiet little Burlington, Nova Scotia - In 1904, it was home to passionate lovers, tangled family relations, and a murderer.
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