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A reign of terror swept the streets of Birmingham in the 1920s.

Criminals armed with small axes attacked immigrant merchants and interracial couples,

leaving dozens dead or injured over the course of four years.

Desperate for answers, police accepted clues from a Ouija board, while citizens clamored

for gun permits for protection.

The city's Italian immigrants formed their own association as protection against the black

hand, an organized band of brutal criminals.

Eventually, the police turned to a dangerous and untested truth serum to elicit confessions.

Four black men and a teenage girl were charged and tried, while copycat killers emerged

from the woodwork.

Journalist Jeremy Gray tackles one of the most curious and violent cases in magic city

history.

The book that we're featuring this evening is The Infamous Birmingham Axe Murders,

Prohibition, Gangsters, and Vigilante Justice.

With my special guest, journalist and author, Jeremy W. Gray.

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