Murder & mayhem in Southwestern Illinois

The Wood River massacre

The mystery of Jean Lafitte's grave

An abused slave and the woman who saved him

The first duel in Illinois

Tickets to a black abolitionist's hanging

The Lincoln-Shields duel

The lynching of a schoolteacher

The brief but wild history of Benbow City

Curtis Reese: minister, humanist crimefighter

The East St. Louis race riot

The lynching of Robert Prager: a World War I hate crime

The Ku Klux Klan in soutwestern Illinois

James Earl Ray and the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Nike Missile Base at Pere Marquette State Park.