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...