Assassin of Dreams

Mildred Akins waved goodbye to her eldest son, Daniel, as he departed for school on that typical fall morning in 1944. Moments later, the local sheriff and his deputy arrived at her door, wrestled her into a strait jacket, gagged her with a stained handkerchief, drove her down the narrow tree lined road that lead to Lynball State Hospital for the criminally insane, and left her. Night after night, month after month, year after year...the forty four year old wife of a prominent physician and...