Welcome back to Crime Capsule.

I'm your host, Benjamin Morris, and I am going to come right out and say it.

It is hot outside.

Too hot. Unseasonably hot. Middle of the summer hot. Fry an egg on the sidewalk hot. Air conditioner can't keep up. Hot. Distortions to the very air hot. It is showing no signs of cooling down. The dog days of summer have rolled over and are playing dead. That's how

hot it is, which is what makes it a perfect season for us to start a brand new series on crimes

of passion. You may have heard of the urban heat island theory, not the heat dome under which you

may be sweltering even as we speak. The urban heat island records how violent crime often rises

with the thermometer as tempers spike alongside temperatures and arguments between friends or lovers that would normally

be coolly resolved turn volatile, sometimes even deadly. It certainly did for the subject of our

first case today, which comes from the book Murder in Stark County, Ohio, written by Kimberly Kenny.

Kim joins us to tell us about one of the most famous murders in all of Ohio history,

a crime of passion, whose victim was none less than the brother-in-law of the president of the United States.

Perhaps it's true after all,

that all politics is in fact local. Kim, welcome to Crime Capsville. We are so delighted to have you join us to kick off our new series. Thank you. It's great to be here. So our series is for the hot summer months, we are looking at crimes of passion.

And you know that we have an absolute banger of a case today to talk about the loveless, the love lorn, the love sick, the love infatuated murder of an extremely

prominent individual. Before we get to that, tell us just a little bit about yourself and how you came to be

where you are. Sure. I have been at the McKinley

Presidential Library and Museum for 23 years. I'm originally from New York, but I moved here to

Canton, Ohio, to take job as curator, and I was promoted in 2019 to executive director. And, you know,

I had lots of plans, and I was director for one

year before the world blew up. And this job is not at all what I expected. But, you know, we're

recovering and things are improving. But yeah, it's been a tough road. But I do love history and what I,

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