15 Minutes of Infamy

Mildred Mowry was a lonely widow who thought her bad fortunes had finally been reversed after meeting a handsome doctor. Little could she have known, hoever, that things were about to go from bad to worse. This is the astonishing tale of a most peculiar killer-- with a peculiar penchant for teddy bears. Shortly before six o'clock on the morning of February 23, 1929, James Boyle of Newark, New Jersey, turned his car off the main highway to take a shortcut to the town of Cranford. He had traveled just a short distance when he saw flames on the snowy ground off the edge of the road. He pulled over for a closer look, and what he saw chilled the blood in his veins-- the burning object was the body of a woman. Boyle raced into Cranford to report the ghastly sight he had seen, and Chief of Police James Hennessey decided to drive out and have a look for himself, convinced that Boyle's eyes had been playing tricks on him. But the chief of police had no difficulty finding the object-- it...