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The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption

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212 pages
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2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - History, Regional, winner On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, complex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption, Patricia L. Bryan, Thomas Wolf

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2022
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