The Jefferson County Egan Murders: Nightmare on New 12 months’s Eve 1964 (True Crime)

With interviews from key witnesses, authors Dave Shampine and Daniel Boyer recount the grisly story of this New 12 months’s Eve North Nation nightmare, which remains to be shrouded in thriller immediately.

The names Peter, Barbara Ann and Gerald Egan had been acquainted to Watertown police earlier than December 31, 1964. The police suspected the trio in a protracted string of burglaries, and so they had been underneath investigation by the FBI for grand theft auto. However on that New 12 months’s evening, the Egans had been shot execution model at a relaxation cease off Interstate 81. The ugly gangland-style killings puzzled native and state police. Theories ranged from a easy confrontation gone awry to a premeditated act of retribution by hardened criminals who feared the Egans would flip state’s witness.