A Slayer Waits: The true story of a Michigan double murder

When the bodies of Howard and Myra Herrick were discovered hidden in their barn on a fall night in 1955, their neighbor suddenly realized the screams she had heard two days earlier were the screams of the retired chicken farmer and his wife being viciously murdered.With escaped convict Nealy Buchanon on the run, law enforcement officials knew he could be anywhere. Thirteen months after the murders, Buchanon was captured in Baltimore and quickly returned to Michigan.What should have been the end of a horrible nightmare for the Herrick family was only the beginning.A Slayer Waits is the true story of a double murder that rocked the quiet community of Stockbridge, Michigan in 1955, and ultimately led to the killer's case ending up before the United States Supreme Court.