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product_id: 57311898
title: "Lies Told Under Oath: The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son—Victim or Villain?"
brand: "beth lane"
price: "$70.60"
currency: USD
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# Lies Told Under Oath: The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son—Victim or Villain?

**Brand:** beth lane
**Price:** $70.60
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- **What is this?** Lies Told Under Oath: The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son—Victim or Villain? by beth lane
- **How much does it cost?** $70.60 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Meticulously Researched Important documentation of tragic event
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2022*

The amount of research and detailed coverage of the initial trial is extremely impressive. The facts are presented without a huge editorial bias on whether the author beliefs the suspect is guilty or innocent. Few if any cases  have reverberated so much in this Quincy/Payson Illinois area. Beth Lane has done a tremendous job of creating a snapshot of the event that will serve as a vastly important documentation of a infamous murder.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    True Crime from 1912
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2014*

In late September 1912, a father, mother, daughter, and the schoolteacher boarder are murdered at the Pfanschmidt farm outside of Quincy, IL. The bodies are discovered during a house fire, later believed to have been set a full day after the killings.Suspicion falls on the remaining son – twenty years old, engaged to be married, and sliding into financial trouble.Arson investigation, murder investigation, and forensics were sciences in their infancy at the time. Add an extended family divided in their loyalty to the suspect – Ray Pfanschmidt – neighbors, businessmen, and bloodhound handlers milling about the farm during and after the fire and you have a tangle of evidence which even modern methods would have difficulty sorting into sense.The narrative guiding the way through newspaper accounts and official court records together, held my attention. Which witness is lying? In which trial? Was the motivation money? Land?I’ve heard of crimes of this sort before. At least one occurred near the small Midwestern town of my youth. But the multiple trials of the same defendant is what sets this apart from the average arson to cover murder case.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    eerily there!
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2012*

Well written and very dark. Made even more eerie because I grew up in Quincy IL. Had never heard of the case before but others had. Unsolved to this day mysteries are fascinating!

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