But at least they’d been all the way over in Madison. We were sorry that it had happened to them. They’d been graduate students and engaged to be married. Richard Covey and Stacy Lee Brandberg had been their names. It was terrible, what’d happened to those kids. When those two college kids were found killed in an abandoned house outside of Madison, Wisconsin, it was like a sigh of relief. We’d been following the trail in the papers, marking each new victim on the map.

Each of the victims died from blood loss, yet each of the crime scenes was suspiciously clean of blood.īy the end of August, the murders had tracked eastward, closer and closer to the Minnesota border. A few sustained deep cuts to the inner thigh. All would be discovered with similar wounds: their throats slit or their wrists cut. Before it was over, the murders would claim the lives of seventeen people of different ages and backgrounds. IN THE SUMMER of 1958, the murders that would come to be known as the “Bloodless Murders” or the “Dracula Murders” swept through the Midwest, beginning in Nebraska and sawing through Iowa and Wisconsin before turning back to my hometown of Black Deer Falls, Minnesota. We don’t know about you, but we’re *dying* (too soon?) to read more. And she chooses the sheriff’s son to tell her story. But how could that be possible? Then, one fateful night in a small town in Minnesota, a girl is found at the scene of the final murders. All the victims are left drained entirely of blood, and no suspects are ever found. Set in the summer of 1958, a series of murders, dubbed the “Bloodless Murders” sweep the Midwest. True crime enthusiasts to the front for today’s excerpt! From Kendare Blake, author of the Three Dark Crowns series, comes All These Bodies, a thrilling tale of a girl named Marie Catherine Hale.

All these bodies by kendare blake