Patricia L. Bryan & Thomas Wolf 
Plea [EPUB ebook] 
The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption

2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction — History, Regional, winner On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome details of the homicides and the knowledge of the accused perpetrator a small, quiet boy weighing just 75 pounds.Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, complex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.