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Harpe Brothers
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America’s first recognized serial killers. Two brothers whose brutality and ruthlessness sowed fear in politicians and ministers alike. Born to loyalist parents in North Carolina, Micajah and Wiley Harpe terrorized Trans-Appalachia from 1790 to 1804, killing 28 people in at least four states.
Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
Sources
T. Marshall Smith, Legends of the War of Independence and of the Earlier Settlements in the West
Smith, Legends of the War of Independence
Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the Old Natchez Trace (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996) Oscar Zeichner, “The Loyalist Problem in New York After the Revolution,” New York History 21, no. 3 (1940): 289, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23135069
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