rescued by his brother when he was put to death for thieving. He's also the smarter of the two brothers. The Harpe brothers were the inspiration for Big and Little Drum in Lois McMaster Bujold's 2008 novel Passage, part of The Sharing Knife series. Wiley Harpe is also the subject of a song on Bob Frank and John Murry's 2006 album World Without End. In 2015, the Investigation Discovery television channel series Evil Kin aired an episode about the Harpe brothers called "Something Wicked in the Woods". A short narrative of the Harpe brothers' lives appears in Selah Saterstrom's 2015 novel Slab. Tiger, the novel's main character, grows up with her family near the Mississippi River on the land of Wiley Harpe's estate off the Natchez Trace where Wiley Harpe "would dismember the corpses and make arrangements from their parts, ornamenting the land around his humble plantation". Tiger's grandfather installs a tire swing on a tree, to which he also affixes "a historical plaque: LITTLE HARPE HANGED HERE". See also List of serial killers in the United States References Coates, Robert M. The Outlaw Years: the History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace. 1930. Gordon, Maj. Maurice Kirby. History of Hopkins County, Kentucky, published by the Hopkins County Genealogical Society. Hall, James. The Harpe's Head: A Legend of Kentucky. New York: Key & Biddle, 1833. Magee, M. Juliette. Cavern of crime. Livingston Ledger, 1973. McDowell, Gary D. and Ruth A. McDowell. Mississippi Secrets: Facts, Legends, and Folklore. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2007. Musgrave, Jon. "Frontier serial killers: The Harpes". American Weekend, The Daily Register, Harrisburg, IL. October 23, 1998. Rothert, Otto A. The Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock. Cleveland 1924; rpt. 1996. Smith, Carter F. Gangs and the Military: Gangsters, Bikers, and Terrorists with Military Training. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Thrapp, Dan L. Encyclopedia of frontier biography, Volume 4. Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988. Ward, Harry M. Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2002. External links Frontier serial killers: The Harpes, Southern Illinois History Page Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock, Southern Illinois History Page A Bloody Legend, Sketch of Big and Little Harpe, Henderson County, Kentucky The Vicious Harpes - First American Serial Killers, Old West Legends The Harpes: America's 1st Serial Killers,? The Butcher's Floor "Fearsome twosome had a reign of terror in these parts," Henderson (Kentucky) Gleaner, March 27, 1988 "Big Harpe and