Tried Three Times: The Karmendi Story

By Celeste Yost

Based on a true story, a freak spring snow storm is the setting for one of the most abominable and evil crimes ever committed in the quiet central Pennsylvania town of Altoona. April 21, 1936 will long be remembered not only for the record-setting storm, but for the brutal slaying of three-year-old Matthew Karmendi at his mothers own hand. Follow the chronology of this heinous crime in the actual newspaper accounts and court transcripts from the initial apprehension and arrest of Margaret Karmendi and her lover, Roy Lockard, through their subsequent trials for murder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456733520

Celeste Yost

Celeste Yost is a retired paralegal and freelance writer who has been published in Chesapeake Bay Magazine, PassageMaker, Good Housekeeping, and Ladies Home Journal. She and her husband, Ralph, reside in Linwood, New Jersey. This is her first novel.

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