In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were  murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their  houses to watch, and in some cases, to take part in  the violence.Scott Doody's book is Herrin Massacre. Special thanks to  the Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University,  Carbondale, and Matt Gorzalski, and to John Griswold, who wrote Herrin:  The Brief History of an Infamous American City. - CRIMINAL