Not a Gentleman's Work - The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth
epub | 27.74 MB | English | Author :Gerard Koeppel | 2020 | Hachette Books

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The story of the most notorious murder in American nautical history-a uniquely grotesque triple murder for which guilt was never settled-and the long journey to truth

The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve people on board: captain-owner Charles Nash, his wife and Maine childhood-sweetheart Laura, two mates, the "mulatto" steward, six crewmen, and one passenger. Just before 2 A.M. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were slaughtered in their individual bunkrooms with the ship's axe, seven or eight blo apiece. Laura Nash was found with her thin nightgown pushed above her hips, her head and upper body smashed and deformed. Incredibly, no one saw or heard the killings... except the killer.
After a harrowing voyage back to port for the survivors, the killer among them, it didn't take long for prosecutors...

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