Disturbing Stories of Arizona: True Crimes, Disasters & Unsettling History
Arizona is famous for blazing deserts, endless highways, ghost towns and some of the most spectacular landscapes in America. But behind that familiar image lies a much darker history.
Disturbing Stories of Arizona uncovers fourteen extraordinary true stories of murder, disaster, mystery and institutional failure drawn from across the state's past.
A passenger train hurtles toward a section of track deliberately sabotaged in the middle of the desert. A newspaper reporter walks toward his car without knowing a bomb has been planted beneath it. Four men confess to a horrific temple massacre they did not commit. Nineteen firefighters leave an area of relative safety as a wildfire changes direction. A teenage boy is convicted of twenty-eight murders after a hotel fire-only for the science behind the case to unravel decades later.
Other stories reach even further into Arizona's past, from the Bisbee Deportation and the Camp Grant massacre to Japanese American incarceration at Poston, the infamous Winnie Ruth Judd case, the unsolved murder of Bob Crane and the disappearance of alleged family killer Robert Fisher.
Told as gripping narrative nonfiction and grounded in court records, official investigations, historical archives and contemporary reporting, these stories separate what is known from what has merely been repeated.
No invented dialogue.
No fictional answers.
No turning suspects into killers simply because it makes a better ending.
Just fourteen disturbing stories that really happened.
One state. Fourteen true stories. A past that refuses to stay buried.
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