A Dark and Bloody Ground: A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State

An Edgar Award-winning author's true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky-and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.

Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation "A Dark and Bloody Ground" more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker's own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and ...