On a cold November night in 1936, the body of beautiful businesswoman Verna Garr Taylor is found in a ditch along a lonely highway in rural Kentucky. Verna had been shot through the heart, and her fiancé, former lieutenant governor and brigadier general Henry Denhardt insisted she committed suicide. But the clues left behind point to murder, and General Denhardt quickly became the target of investigators. The general’s sensational murder trial drew reporters from all over the country to the small Kentucky community. The case was featured in the New York Times, the London Herald, Newsweek, Time, Life, and other national and international publications. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Kentuckians — including Verna’s three angry and grieving brothers — waited in grim anticipation for the general to be tried again.  Ann DAngelo  is a licensed Kentucky attorney with an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Louisville and a juris doctor degree from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Twenty years as an attorney, combined with a lifelong passion for history, have served her well in researching and writing the tragic story of Brigadier General Henry Denhardt and Verna Garr Taylor. Ann has used trial transcripts, court pleadings, newspaper accounts, attorney correspondence, and interviews with witnesses and family members to compile a riveting account of this very cold case.