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(VIRTUAL) Author Talk w/ Janie Nesbitt Jones (The Arkansas Hitchhike Killer)
December 22 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm CST
Program livestreamed at facebook.com/garlandcountylibrary and youtube.com/garlandcolibrary
Join us for an author talk featuring Janie Nesbitt Jones, author of The Arkansas Hitchhike Killer. This true crime book made the Arkansas State Library’s 2021 book recommendations spotlight featuring Arkansas authors.
The book’s description reads “Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as “a pleasant conversationalist.” Author Janie Nesbitt Jones chronicles his life for the first time and explores reasons why he became “Arkansas’s Hitchhike Killer.”