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True Crime

The crime that shook a nation

Ellen J. Green recounts the story behind the first ever recorded mass shooting in American history.

Ellen J. Green
28 September 2022

6 September 1949, East Camden, New Jersey. Twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people dead on his block on River Road in less than thirteen minutes.

The first crime of its kind that changed everything in a blink of an eye.

Read more of this shocking true story in her piece for the Courier Post.

  • Ebook

    ISBN: 9781800198067
    Published: 28 April 2022

  • Audiobook

    ISBN: 9781800198081
    Published: 28 April 2022

  • Paperback

    ISBN: 9781909770706
    Published: 28 April 2022

Murder in the Neighborhood

Ellen J. Green

Published: 28 April 2022

The shocking true story of the first recorded mass shooting in America has never been told, until now.

Murder In the Neighborhood Ellen J. Green

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