John Hossack, a respected farmer in his community, was brutally attacked while laying in bed on December 1st, having to lay paralyzed dying for ten agonizing hours. Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf’s book Midnight Assassin is about the devastating murder of John Hossack, the injustice of Margaret Hossack’s trial and brings up the question, “who really killed John Hossack?”. Based on the evidence presented in the novel, Will Haines committed murder in the first degree, and Margaret Hossack was an accessory to murder.
