Revolutionary Killers: Harpe Brothers, Serial or Spree?
By Clare Toohey
November 25, 2011The Continental Congress declared the first National Thanksgiving in 1777, but the Harpe brothers weren’t thankful for anything except another day to thieve and kill. Recently, I encountered the story of the pair who are, perhaps, America’s first serial killers, though they exhibited some horrifying characteristics of spree killers, too. What makes it trickier for…