Albert Hicks became one of the most feared criminals of his time after a brutal series of murders at sea. His capture shocked the public, but what followed was even more disturbing. The turning point ...

"I'm not complicit in the way that my grandparents were ... but I am complicit if I keep it in the silence," the author said.

In August 1936, an estimated 20,000 people descended on Daviess County to watch as a young Black man was hanged from a gallows near the shores of the Ohio River. It was the last public execution in ...