The Many Wives of James P. Watson: The Story of the "Prince Charming" Serial Killer

For fans of Dateline-style investigations and true-crime mysteries, the story of a turn-of-the-century con man who married fifty women-and the one suspicious wife who helped expose his black-bag trail of theft, betrayal, and murder.

In turn-of-the-twentieth-century America, James P. Watson sells himself as Prince Charming in lonely hearts advertisements and "chance encounters," courting women, marrying them quickly, then emptying their bank accounts and erasing them-by abandonment, murder, o...