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Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite
Murder in a Sundown Town by Alexandra Kitty is a true crime story. In 1968, Carol Jenkins was starting her first day of a new job – selling encyclopedias in Martinsville, Indiana. Just 21 years old, Carol didn’t have a bad bone in her body, but because she was black, she was limited in the type of work she could do. It was wet and foggy, and Carol never made it home, stabbed right through the heart with a screwdriver. What should have been a fairly simple case to solve remains, to this day, a cold case. More than 40 years on, Carol’s death has become a case for gossip, racism, and sexism. For every question that finally gets answered, more unanswered ones arise, and Alexandra Kitty, a former researcher for True Crime TV, has now produced her perspective on this shocking crime and why it is yet to be solved.
Alexandra Kitty is a researcher for True Crime Television and provides a unique perspective on a shocking crime that remains unsolved for so many years after it happened. Her research skills come to the fore as she takes us through the murder, the subsequent investigation, and the shocking community silence that arose. Not to mention the racism and sexism, not uncommon during the 1960s, especially in Martinsville, Indiana, where women and black people were looked down on and excluded from decent employment opportunities. Murder in a Sundown Town provides readers with enough material to perhaps make their own minds up about what happened and offers a different view from the official one. The story moves past the official account and provides insights to help readers understand just how things were in 1960s America and perhaps how little was done to solve Carol's murder. If you like true crime, you’ll love this book but don’t expect a cold case to be solved – read it and make up your own mind.
