One’s by a former GOP congressman who later probed Jan. 6. Another’s about a sensational Roanoke church murder in 1949. The third s about a corrupt drunkard and rapist who ran the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
Two books published in the past year focus on heinous Roanoke crimes the murders of Lizzie Wilson in 1884 and Dana Marie Weaver in 1949. Laurie Platt of Roanoke and Denise Tanaka of Sunnyvale, California, played key roles in each.