13-year-old Mary Phagan was found dead at an Atlanta pencil factory in 1913. Over the next two years, the murder investigation centered around the factory superintendent, Leo Frank. Frank ...

On April 26, 1913, the brutal murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of the Atlanta, Ga. pencil factory where she worked. Phagan arrived before noon that day to collect her ...

Leo Frank, a pencil-factory superintendent in Atlanta and a northern Jew, was at the center of a murder trial and lynching that continues to reverberate more than a century later. In 1913, Frank had ...