The Hex Murder of 1928 has rightfully earned the label of York County’s Crime of the 20th century. You have three guys, including two teens, kill a farmer in a remote part of the county as part of a spell to break a spell that the victim, a suspected witch, placed on one or two of them. Or, we should say, as part of a suspected hex that went awry. The Hex Murder has sometimes been trivialized with haunted hayrides and the like. Sometimes, it’s forgotten that an innocent man died in a brutal, late-night home invasion. This class will explore lessons to be learned from the terrible event and what this moment says about York County, then and now.