Bloodstains

Jeff Mudgeit's book Bloodstains describes his personal journey in coming to terms with this realization.

And I've been going about it for years now, Mike, and I'm not glad that that's who I'm related to but having accepted my fate has made the most of it. And I'm trying to set history straight.

All of a sudden I'm told that my grandfather's grandfather is a quote-unquote monster, a mass murderer, the proprietor of the murder capsule, the real-life Dr. Frankenstein.

It imparts almost supernatural powers on this man the fact that he could fool so many people the prison guards the warden the onlookers the press the priests yeah how did he get away with this

I refused to believe that it was supernatural and so instead I took it backwards the other way mike and i started considering what if so that my team and i we went back and took apart the burial and the execution and lo and behold it started falling apart

Jeff and I different. Yeah yeah. Jeff and I disagree historically we get along fine. Obviously this is an opinion but I see this with authors who come along who have a personal stake somehow a relative involved and they sensationalize things to help sell their books.

I believe he is as a guy who publishes both nonfiction is a much easier sell. And I honestly wonder sometimes if Eric Larson was thinking of Devil in the White City as a novel not a nonfiction book when he wrote it because it reads as a great novel.

But he also I don't think he minds it when people think it's a true story.