He practiced several years with the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease in Columbus, Ohio, before taking a teaching position at the College of Law, University of Kentucky. Porter, a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in Cincinnati. After law school, Richard Underwood served as a law clerk for the Honorable David S. He then attended the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Underwood left the army with the rank of captain, and he received a number of decorations, including the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star. He served four years, with tours of duty in Germany and Vietnam, and later served as the security officer at the Presidio of San Francisco. He graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in 1969 and then entered the army. Underwood was born in Columbus, Ohio, where he grew up and attended college and law school. He is also the author of CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads (2016), the recipient of two IPPY Book of the Year Awards and winner of a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award (Bronze, True Crime).

His most recent book is Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York. Breathitt Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Underwood, American legal scholar and legal nonfiction and true crime writer, is the Edward T. Underwood has resurrected these stories and shares them with the reader through his old lawyer trifocals.He presents his case studies, documented through contemporary news accounts and court records, as a series of dramas filled with jump-off-the-page real and memorable characters.Richard H. Underwood recreates in engaging and folksy prose the true facts behind twenty-four Southern murder ballads. Underwood has resurrected these stories and shares them with the reader through his old lawyer trifocals.He presents his case studies, documented through contemporary news accounts and court records, as a series of dramas filled with jump-off-the-page real and memorable characters.ĪB - In CrimeSong, law professor and authentic storyteller Richard H. N2 - In CrimeSong, law professor and authentic storyteller Richard H. T2 - True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads

CrimeSong by Richard H. Underwood