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It's 1924, in the small ore-mining town of Hurley,
Wisconsin. Wife and mother, Emma Sigler has just killed her abusive
husband, Andrew, with a .32 caliber revolver in the Gogebic Hotel.
She phones Andy Anderson and askes him to help her dispose of
the body...
Andy agreed to help, and drove the back roads
of this midwestern town until he came to a deserted field. There
he threw Sigler’s body across a ditch on the side of the
road.
Then he left town for a week.
When he returned to Hurley, he was arrested
for killing Sigler. After being jailed, he bragged to an undercover
private detective that he killed Sigler - shortly thereafter he
was sentenced to life imprisonment at the state penitentiary.
Emma was arrested as an accessory and was locked
up in the county jail for six months until her trial. Just before
her trial, Emma confessed to murdering her husband in self defense,
but she was convicted and received a life sentence in the state
penitentiary, and her four children were sent to an orphanage.
When she arrived at the prison, it was discovered that Emma was
pregnant.
After more than 80 years, the circumstances
surrounding the murder of Andrew Sigler and the conviction of
Andy Anderson and Emma Sigler are being told in this novel based
on a crime that had been considered “solved”.
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