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Homicide historian David Colchick releases 1926,

Murder in America, new in expanded edition,

for the 100th anniversary of the deadliest year in American history.

While researching his seven true crime books,

Colchick noticed that there was an extraordinary number of oddball murders during the year 1926.

The 1920s was a time of massive cultural and technological changes.

The death and destruction of World War I

doapslapped the collective mindset of the youth of America,

and 1926 was the year that Americans all over the country said screw it.

And screw it they did.

Mixing too much bootleg booze, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, with fast cars, sex and jazz music, can only lead to trouble. The number

of allegedly normal people committing ghastly murders in 1926 is astounding.

It is like a switch got turned on and some people went mad, unlike any other time in American

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