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Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student
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“The true case of Lydia ‘Lida’ Beecher, a school teacher, being killed by one of her former students . . . The book flows seamlessly” (Observer Dispatch).
In 1914, Poland, New York, was a picturesque slice of small-town America. That innocence was shattered with the shocking murder of beloved schoolteacher Lida Beecher at the hands of her former student Jean Gianini.
At twenty-one years old, Lida wasn't much older than her students. The son of a successful furniture dealer, Jean had all th...