Killing Henrietta: The unsolved murder of a young widow in a small Southern Maryland town - Softcover

LeDonne, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798317817466

Verlag: BookBaby, 2025

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December 5, 1959, the beginning of the Christmas season. Residents of Leonardtown, Maryland, awoke that morning to shocking news. Henrietta Ragan, one of their own and a recent widow had been brutally beaten, raped, and murdered overnight. The crime scene had been cleaned up and staged to look like a suicide. The local population knew her as a sensual paramour who was "very attractive" and intimately known to most men in this sleepy little Southern Maryland village, much to the dismay of their wives.

This homicide remains unsolved sixty-five years later. New evidence has been uncovered that will provide information
about the heinous taking of her life. This savage murder had been veiled within deep and deadly secrets, lies, lust, and dishonesty by the most powerful men in the community.

Who were the architects and the masterminds behind this successful and massive cover-up?

A fresh new look might answer some of the questions
that people still ask today about… "Killing Henrietta"

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Leslie LeDonne is a first-time author of the new non-fiction book "KILLING
HENRIETTA". Leslie was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1957, and raised
in southern Maryland, where she still resides today with her husband, Jeff,
their two sons and their families. She considers her faith and family to be
the most important to her.
First hearing of this local, true and still unsolved horrific murder
and rape of Henrietta Ragan fifty years ago while Leslie was in beauty
school piqued her interest. This homicide happened in Leonardtown, Maryland
in 1959, just two blocks away from her beauty school. She wondered how
something this horrendous could have been executed in such a tiny closet
community and never have been solved. She spent many years doing her own
research, interviews, and boots-on-the ground inquiries. While searching on
her own, she has uncovered some new evidence that would change the way this
case is examined, maybe not by the police any longer, but certainly by the
readers themselves.
It was Henrietta's inability to enjoy life's treasures that Leslie has
been blessed with that propelled her search forward. Henrietta's faith,
family, close friendships and her life itself had been robbed from her. This
injustice fueled Leslie's search for facts, truth, and evidence. Being a
very head strong and determined woman gave her the fortitude necessary in
trying to figure out who the man was that was responsible for killing
Henrietta.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798317817466
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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