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A Little Less Mess: Blood Under the Crabapple Tree [New Jersey]
Grab your mason jars and pull up a rocker as Cara steps outside the South for a solo trip back to the autumn of 1922. In an overgrown lovers’ lane outside New Brunswick, New Jersey, the bodies of an aristocratic Episcopal priest and his married choir leader were found staged beneath a crabapple tree, surrounded by their torn-up secret love letters and a grotesque calling card.
What followed became the country's first true media circus. From a high-society widow with millions on the line to an eccentric witness known as the "Pig Woman" testifying from a hospital bed wheeled into the courtroom…
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