Murder at Rocky Point Park: Tragedy in Rhode Island's Summer Paradise

The true story of a heartbreaking crime at a nineteenth-century amusement park.

On a summer day in 1893, against a backdrop of laughter and barrel organ music at Rocky Point Amusement Park, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered—by her own father.

But the tragedy aroused a strange reaction from the peaceable community of Warwick, Rhode Island, as many seemed to be more concerned for the murderer, Frank Sheffield, than for his young victim. Frank was rumored to be insane or addicted to dr...