Pennsylvania Oddities Volume 2

If a Hall of Fame existed for Pennsylvania criminals, 19th century outlaw Red Nose Mike would have been inducted with the greatest of ease. After he was hanged in 18889, the blood thirsty killer with the curious nickname became part of Luzerne County legend.

Red Nose Mike is just one of many infamous characters who have left a dark stain on the pages of Pennsylvania history. Residents of Fayette County may recall 'Eatabite' Tibbs, the eccentric bandit and alleged cannibal who once struck terror into the hearts of men and women throughout western Pennsylvania. Pike County was the home of Herman Schultz, who might've lived to a ripe old age had it not been for his sons whose testimony sent him to the gallows in 1897 for a crime long forgotten. And then there's Hetty Good, the sweet Mennonite spinster whose deathbed confession revealed her true identity as one of the most ruthless murderers Lancaster County has ever seen,

Every part of the state harbors its share of dark secrets. In Pennsylvania Oddities Volume 2, author Marlin Bressi takes the reader on a macabre tour through the Keystone State in search of the strange, gruesome and bizarre,