Today in Crime History: The Murder of Mary Phagan
April 26, 2013 9:09 AM
Leo Frank was accused of raping and killing a little girl named Mary Phagan in a pencil factory on April 26, 1915. Frank insisted on his innocence all along but was hung from a tree by an angry mob.
Today in Crime History: Leo Frank is Implicated in the Murder of Little Mary Phagan
May 24, 2012 5:08 PM
On May 24, 1913, Jim Conley, the man many believe killed Phagan, told police that Leo Frank had put him up to writing a note that was found with her body. Frank would be convicted, exonerated, and ultimately lynched, in this sad tale of anti-Semitism, a clash of cultures, and an egregious miscarriage of justice.
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