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Ron Hughes
Ron Hughes was born and raised in Troy, New York. He earned his Master’s from SUNY New Paltz. Hughes began researching Hazel Drew’s murder in 2008 after reading an article in a local newspaper. After 10 years of extensive research he published the first book on the case, Who Killed Hazel Drew? Hughes is currently working on his second book. He is married, has two grown sons and lives in the Hudson Valley.
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About Who Killed Hazel Drew
On July 6, 1908, pretty and popular Hazel Drew abruptly quit her job as a domestic servant; a job she loved and with a family that greatly respected and admired her. Five days later her body was discovered in a pond fifteen miles away. An autopsy was performed. An investigation began. For two weeks, detectives discovered one baffling clue after another. They learned that Hazel was not the person everyone knew her to be. Who Killed Hazel Drew? chronicles the nearly three-week investigation in upstate New York and examines the clues that left detectives and the media frustrated. They examined, among other things:
- A best friend that left town the same day Hazel quit her job
- A family that didn't fully cooperate with the investigation and was possibly concealing a closely guarded secret
- An eccentric uncle and a controlling aunt
- A missing purse
- Unexplained trips to big cities
- Mysterious letters destined to be destroyed
- An unidentified couple seen on a train
- A secret romance and engagement
Using primary sources and applying modern profiling techniques, Who Killed Hazel Drew? re-examines the century-old murder and gives readers the opportunity to decide for themselves what really happened on that desolate mountain in 1908.
Product Details
Who Killed Hazel Drew
By Ron Hughes
ISBN-10 : 9781543900972
ISBN-13 : 978-1543900972
Published by Book Baby – June 2017