Three Sisters in Black

The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy

By: Norman Zierold

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.

On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of 24-year-old Oceana "Ocey" Snead facedown in the bathtub - dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There was even a note left behind.

But it would not take authorities long to discover that Ocey's death was no suicide. And Ocey's own mother and two aunts were far from the sorrowful caretakers they appeared to be.

In fact, behind the veils of their strange black mourning clothes, they were monsters, having tormented Ocey almost since birth in a sick pattern of both physical and mental abuse, after a lifetime of which the women planned to cash in on poor Ocey's sad and inevitable death.

An Edgar Award finalist, Three Sisters in Black is the true story of a gothic, gaslight nightmare that fascinated, shocked, and baffled the nation - and the disturbed women who almost got away with murder.

©2019 Norman Zierold (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Bizarre case

This was enjoyable for the subject matter. If you don't like true crime or are just dipping your toe in, you might not like this. It was certainly a strange case.

part of my hometown's histoy

everyone should have a good urban legend in their hometown. this was ours in Christiansburg, Virginia

Frustrating event

(As posted in Goodreads)
A complex and constantly changing story. Due to the facts consistently changing and being added to, it's really difficult to come up with a true conclusion to what actually happened.
Seeing the officials and lawyers going through back bends and contusions to actually discover the true realities of the case was both frustrating and encouraging.
The whole case is less than satisfying, but that's what reality is.

Fascinating

A very peculiar story with lots of intrigue. I would love to see it made into a movie. It would probably be as fascinating as Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Details. Details

Too many details. Reads like a legal document. Story COULD be interesting.. I'm disappointed, because I love a good mystery.