What is known about a couple of outlaws called Harpe?
Walter Sarafin
Shawnee, Kansas
Wiley “Little” Harpe and Micajah “Big” Harpe are dubiously referred to as America’s first serial killers, and they were vicious ones too. By some accounts, they killed at least 40 men, women and children.
The Harpes—either brothers or cousins—operated mostly in Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois in the late 1700s, at a time when that region was the frontier.
In 1798-1799, they went on a
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