Killing Henrietta: The Unsolved Murder of a Young Widow in a Small Southern Maryland Town

By: Ledonne, Leslie

December 5, 1959, the beginning of the Christmas season. Residents of Leonardtown, Maryland, awoke that morning to shocking news. Henrietta Ragan, one of their own and a recent widow had been brutally beaten, raped, and murdered overnight. The crime scene had been cleaned up and staged to look like a suicide. The local population knew her as a sensual paramour who was "very attractive" and intimately known to most men in this sleepy little Southern Maryland village, much to the dismay of their wives.

This homicide remains unsolved sixty-five years later. New evidence has been uncovered that will provide information
about the heinous taking of her life. This savage murder had been veiled within deep and deadly secrets, lies, lust, and dishonesty by the most powerful men in the community.

Who were the architects and the masterminds behind this successful and massive cover-up?

A fresh new look might answer some of the questions
that people still ask today about... "Killing Henrietta"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWQ33Y4K
• ISBN13: 9798317817466
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Bookbaby
• Length: 232 Pages