A crime novel based on the true story of a shocking murder in a quiet central Pennsylvania town that made national headlines. ..".She would never have thought herself capable of murder. What made her think like this? It wasn't to be this way. She was the mother. She was to protect him. Even a mongrel dog protects her pup..." Based on a true story, a freak spring snow storm is the setting for one of the most abominable and evil crimes ever committed in the quiet central Pennsylvania town of Altoona. April 21, 1936 will long be remembered not only for the record-setting storm, but for the brutal slaying of three-year-old Matthew Karmendi at his mother's own hand. Follow the chronology of this heinous crime in the actual newspaper accounts and court transcripts from the initial apprehension and arrest of Margaret Karmendi and her lover, Roy Lockard, through their subsequent trials for murder.