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The
Blue Eyed Six Director: Brian Kreider RT: 53:00mins
Website: www.blueeyedsixmovie.com/index.html
Synopsis:
Edna Carmean's book The Blue Eyed Six, based on the famous insurance
murder trial and execution in Pennsylvania history. In December 1878, the
body of old Joseph Raber was found floating in the icy waters of Indiantown
Creek near St. Joseph's Spring, PA. The investigation revealed life
insurance policies had been taken out on Raber who was frail and expected
not to live very long. The gang might have escaped the noose had it not been
for one of them becoming too fond of a local 19 year-old married woman named
Magdelena Peters. Her jealous husband, Joe Peters turned the men into
Hummelstown authorities. The trial was covered by every major newspaper from
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and from Baltimore to New York.
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