Learn how an interesting afternoon at the local library grew into years of earnest research, trips to courthouses and archives across the state, and a book that tells the fascinating story of Herman Billik, a mysterious Bohemian fortune teller accused of slowly poisoning Martin and Rose Vrzal and their four children in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood in the early 1900s.

 

Steve Shukis is a sixth-generation Chicagoan, and has been an amateur genealosits for more than 30 years..