An Edgar Award finalist for Best Reality Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural background of rural America” (The Wall structure Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and football writer Bill Wayne applying his analytical acumen to split an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.

Between 1898 and 1912, family members in the united states were bludgeoned within their sleep with the blunt part of the axe. Some of about THE PERSON from the Teach: The Solving of the Century-Old Serial Killer Secret these cases-like the infamous Villisca, Iowa, murders-received national attention. But most incidents went nearly unnoticed outside the communities where they happened. Few people thought the crimes were related. And fewer still would recognize that all of these families lived within strolling length to a place. When celebrated true crime expert Bill James first learned all about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the same know-how he brings to his renowned baseball analysis, he empirically motivated which crimes were committed from the same person. After that after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his child Rachel produced an astonishing finding: they learned the true identity of the monstrous criminal and uncovered among the deadliest serial killers in America.

“A suspenseful historical account” (Web publishers Regular, starred review), THE PERSON from the Teach paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth hundred years, when crime was regarded as a local issue, and opportunistic personal detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these social factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes that occurs, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, impress aficionados, and change just how we view criminal background. “A beautifully written and extraordinarily researched narrative…This is normally no genuine whodunit, but instead a how-many-did-he-do” (Buffalo News).