Wicked Fairfax County

Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century brought horrific murders, hysteria over a hatchet-wielding rabbit and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The tenacity of suffragists jailed in the Lorton Workhouse changed the very character of our nation. Later, spies crisscrossed the county, leaving our country's Cold War secrets and millions in cash stuffed under bridges. Join author Cindy Bennett as she chronicles the wicked and wild side of Fairfax County.
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Wicked Fairfax County

Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century brought horrific murders, hysteria over a hatchet-wielding rabbit and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The tenacity of suffragists jailed in the Lorton Workhouse changed the very character of our nation. Later, spies crisscrossed the county, leaving our country's Cold War secrets and millions in cash stuffed under bridges. Join author Cindy Bennett as she chronicles the wicked and wild side of Fairfax County.
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Wicked Fairfax County

Wicked Fairfax County

by Cindy L. Bennett
Wicked Fairfax County

Wicked Fairfax County

by Cindy L. Bennett

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Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century brought horrific murders, hysteria over a hatchet-wielding rabbit and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The tenacity of suffragists jailed in the Lorton Workhouse changed the very character of our nation. Later, spies crisscrossed the county, leaving our country's Cold War secrets and millions in cash stuffed under bridges. Join author Cindy Bennett as she chronicles the wicked and wild side of Fairfax County.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467138932
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 10/01/2018
Series: Wicked
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,056,884
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author


A native of Ohio, Cindy L. Bennett earned a BA in political science from the University of Akron and an MA in the same subject from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She moved to Fairfax County in the 1980s and considers it to be home. Cindy is the executive director of the trade association Foundation in Alexandria and the treasurer of the Burke Historical Society. This is her second book, her first for The History Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

1 American Troops Loot Fairfax County: 1898 11

2 The Night of Terror: Suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse 24

3 The 1918 Murder of Eva Roy 39

4 The Laughing Killer and the Nudist Camp 61

5 The Bunnyman 69

6 Ebola Reston 76

7 Fairfax County's Cold War Spies 87

Notes 107

Index 121

About the Author 125

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