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Author Shukis, Steve, author.

Title Poisoned : Chicago 1907: a corrupt system, an accused killer, and the crusade to save him / Steve Shukis.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Green Bay, Wisconsin : TitleTown Publishing, [2014]
©2014
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2207545~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  364.15232 SHU    AVAILABLE
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Description xvii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A tale of murder, sorcery, and criminal justice in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the true story of a mysterious Bohemian fortune teller named Herman Billik, charged in 1907 with murdering a half-dozen people by slowly poisoning them with arsenic.
Subject Billik, Herman.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Insurance fraud -- Illinois -- Chicago.
True crime stories.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
Genre Case studies.
ISBN 9780991193813 hardback
0991193814 hardback
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