NEW!!! The Murders of Martha Wise: A Shocking True Crime Story
- Rod Kackley
- Oct 8
- 1 min read
NEW IN ROD KACKLEY'S SHOCKING TRUE CRIME LIBRARY!
She baked bread, loved funerals—and poisoned her family.
In the winter of 1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise—an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession—slipped arsenic into her family’s food and water. Three of her relatives were dead, dozens more gravely ill, and a rural community was gripped by fear.
What followed was a murder investigation and trial unlike anything the Midwest had ever seen. Was Martha a cold-blooded killer, or—as she later claimed—a woman under the spell of the Devil himself?
If you enjoy the classic storytelling of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Harold Schechter, or the gripping modern style of Gregg Olsen, Kathryn Casey, and M. William Phelps, you’ll find yourself hooked by The Murders of Martha Wise.
Meticulously researched but written with the pace and passion of a thriller, this is true crime that grips like a novel.
Step into the courthouse packed with reporters and gawkers. Smell the cigarette smoke curling through the air.
Hear Martha’s confession in her own words—and watch as a prosecutor, a small-town sheriff, and a grieving community demand justice.
A chilling true story so shocking, it reads like the darkest crime novel.
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