In 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a group of prominent local citizens.
In my two hour interview with Steve Owney, author of And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, he tells the story of little Mary’s murder, the investigation that followed, highlights of Frank’s sensational trial, and Frank’s ultimate demise at the hands of an organized Georgia mob.
The book can be purchased both at your local bookstore and here.
