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Indianapolis Graverobbing: A Syndicate of Death

Indianapolis Graverobbing: A Syndicate of Death

Flook, Chris

Hardcover

Series: True Crime

Black American HistoryRegional: MidwestTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $36.99

ISBN10: 1540258084
ISBN13: 9781540258083
Publisher: Blackwell North America
Published: Aug 21 2023
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Surveying the sensational newspaper accounts as events unfolded, author and historian Chris Flook recounts this grisly tale of political intrigue and conspiracy.

In the fall of 1902, Indianapolis police uncovered a prolific graverobbing ring operating across the city. At the time, cemeteries across central Indiana were relieved of their dead by ghouls, as they were called, seeking fresh corpses desperately needed by the city's medical colleges. The ring was also accused of multiple murders. In Hamilton County, a former Confederate soldier named Wade West delivered stolen corpses by floating them down the White River. His counterpart in Indianapolis, Rufus Cantrell, an itinerant preacher and full-time graverobber known as the King of the Ghouls, ransacked Indy's cemeteries for years before being caught.

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