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This examination of two unsolved murders presents nineteenth-century New Haven as a microcosm of Victorian society, with new insight into the customs, law, medicine, journalism, and language of the day.

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Ultimately, Shepherd and his wife Julie were accused of killing not only Billy McClintock, but Billy's mother and a doctor friend of the family.

This case caused a major sensation in Jazz Age Chicago, a society fascinated with murder and mayhem.

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But those who knew Theo Durrant denied that this highly respectable young man could have had anything to do with these horrible crimes.

The young man who committed these two apparently motiveless murders was depicted by the popular press at the time as a monster, a devil in disguise, only pretending to be religious.