Murder Charge Ruling
This file appears in: A Murdered Mother
Despite the assistance of a clever defense attorney, Joseph O’Neill faced prison time for the murder of his wife, leaving the couple’s children without parents. News coverage focused on the drama of the murder, largely ignoring the couple’s five children.
This file appears in: A Murdered Mother
A Murdered Mother
In May of 1927, at the height of the Prohibition Era, twenty-six year-old Mary Catherine Kamer wed thirty-eight year-old Joseph O’Neill in Jeffersonville. O’Neill had immigrated to Jeffersonville from Ireland where he became the business partner of…