Gerard Koeppel on his new book Not a Gentleman's Work

The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with 12 people on board. Just before 2am on the vessel’s sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife and the second mate were slaughtered in their quarters. Incredibly, no one saw or heard anything. Gerard Koeppel’s “Not a Gentleman's Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth” is the story of the fates of two vastly different men whose lives intersected briefly on one horrific voyage at sea. Join us for a maritime murder mystery more than 100 years in the making in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.