Love and Greed in the Heartland ─ The Richmond Hill Murders

Love and Greed in the Heartland is the story of an insurance fraud scheme gone fatally wrong. On one night in Richmond Hill, what was meant to be a small fire mushroomed into a major explosion and the largest homicide investigation in Indiana’s history. With patience and meticulous attention to detail, former police captain and Commander of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch, Robert L. Snow, and award-winning investigative reporter Russ McQuaid lay bare the details of the crime scene and track the case through the eventual prosecution of the defendants. The first complete account of the notorious Richmond Hill murders in print, Love and Greed in the Heartland is an account of what happened when a tempestuous and desperate love coupled with arson and murder, and how careful detective work unraveled it all.

Robert L. Snow is a former captain in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the author of 17 published books, including Killers in the Family, Looking for Carroll Beckwith, and Slaughter on North Lasalle. Russ McQuaid has worked as a television journalist in Indianapolis since 1993. A veteran Fox 59 investigative reporter, he covered the investigation of the Richmond Hill explosion and murders for four years, as well as the trials of Mark and Bob Leonard.