But of all the investigations, of all the monsters Postiglione chased, few were as chilling, or as game changing, as the Rest Stop Killer: a homicidal trucker who turned the interstates into his trolling ground. From Vanderbilt University to dive bars and out-of-the-way motels, Postiglione followed the bloody tracks of these ever-escalating crimes-each enacted by a different psychopath with the same intent: to murder without motive or remorse. And during the next two decades, the body count climbed. As Postiglione was promoted from street-beat Metro cop to detective sergeant heading Music City's elite cold-case Murder Squad, some of America's most bizarre, elusive, and savage serial killers were calling Nashville home.

By the time Pat Postiglione arrived there in 1980, it was also the scene of an unsolved series of vicious sex slayings that served as a harbinger of worse to come. Nashville-a haven for aspiring musicians and a magnet for country-music fans. The never-before-told true account of the serial killers who terrorized Nashville's music scene for decades-and the cold-case Murder Squad determined to bring an end to their sadistic sprees. Vividly capturing the outlandish mischief, shocking crimes, and political powder kegs of an era, Murder and Mayhem in Nashville lifts the veil on a great city’s sordid secrets. Included here are tales of infamous bar brawls, escaped fugitives, and deadly duels instigated (and won) by legendary hothead Andrew Jackson a tour of the notorious red-light district of Smokey Row, where one of the largest congregations of prostitutes in the country was at the service of 1000s of beleaguered boys in gray a killer temptress with a penchant for poison who strolled the city streets looking for victims a grisly-and true-local legend known as the Headless Horror the facts behind the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders and much more. Now, historian Brian Allison sheds light on some of Nashville’s darkest deeds in this compulsively readable chronicle of turn-of-the-century bad behavior. Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of its malevolent past. We only index and link to content provided by other sites.įrom post–Civil War political feuds to Depression-era mass murder-explore the criminally fascinating secret history of Music City, USA. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server.

Notorious Nashville by Brian Allison