The storyline in Coldspring chronicles the reincarnations of two men and one woman together over a span of 12,000 years. Their successive lives take them from Upper Siberia, across the Bering Strait Bridge into the North American Continent and eventually into upstate New York. Three sets of actual murders occur over a long span of time after the trio reincarnates in the Coldspring, NY area.
A Seneca Indian Guide recited the legend of the first set of murders in Coldspring to a Holland Company surveyor in 1799. The second set of murders in Coldspring/Steamburg was reported in many local papers in 1873. The book culminates in 1935 with the murder of Bernice Kenyon Farnsworth and her husband, Harry who was an ex-convict and 20 years her junior.
The gruesome murders of the newly married couple created a huge sensation throughout the Southern Tier after the bodies were discovered on March 9, 1935. Quickly, as word spread, it became national news. New York State Troopers immediately mounted what was, at that time, the largest manhunt in the history of the State of New York for murder suspect, Freddy Lindsay. Lindsay was Harry Farnsworth’s former cellmate at Great Meadow Prison.
The Coldspring book (www.TheColdspring.com) took off in the year 2000 when Mancuso, a native of Salamanca, NY, asked a friend who was a private detective to help her find her family in Randolph, NY. That request brought down a landslide of information concerning the Farnsworth murders. Eventually their research led them to local libraries where Mancuso and John Scarano found reports of two other sets of murders that occurred in the same area with the same weapon – an ax. The murders all involved two men and one woman. That was how the book took on the theme of karma and reincarnation.
In another twist, Mancuso is a well-known Medium who helps many individuals gain closure with loved ones who have passed on. She continues her emotionally healing work with Coldspring as the book has brought healing to her family, to the murderer’s family and even to the family of the murderer’s defending Attorney, G. Sydney Shane. You may visit her website for more information at: www.mediumcheri.com.
Mancuso and Scarano will be releasing book two, "Coldspring, The Trial," soon and there are plans for a third book, "Coldspring, The Resolution."
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I couldn't put this book down, and the anticipation for book 2 is killing me! I live in the Coldspring area, and I've heard pieces of this story for years. In fact, my husband took me to the site of the "murder farm" hiking on one of our first dates and told me the story as he knew it. There is much more to the story than even he knew, and he's quite a history buff. Thank you so much for writing this book - it's a story that's a huge part of Coldspring/Randolph's history.
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