The shocking story of Helmuth Schmidt
Subtitle: Michigan's original lonely-hearts killer
By: Tobin T. Buhk
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781626190177
Subjects: Serial murderers; Murder; TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers
Description: "In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid AugustaSteinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisementin her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, butin March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search fora missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder.Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan's original lonely hearts killer--a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed 'one of America's master outlaws.'"--

"An account of the murders of Helmuth Schmidt"--