Seventeen bizarre cannibalistic murders that terrorized Western Massachusetts and Southern Vermont from June 1959 to December 1960. Zeke's girlfriend Mary Anne Taylor was the fourteenth victim. Though acquitted, Zeke's promising music career was ruined, and the publicity along with the loss of his beloved Mary Anne almost destroyed him. He returned to his family's meat processing business and left rock and roll for nearly three decades. The gruesome murders remain unsolved to this day.

In 1991 after a "friendly" exchange of gunfire with Angry Johnny and Jim Joe Greedy concerning "private property rights" at his Pomeroy Mountain distillery he was coaxed out of retirement and back into the rock and roll he had left thirty years before.

He took the Killbillies under his wing and recorded their first two albums, "pigeaters" and the critically acclaimed "hankenstein".

But his newfound success rekindled unanswered questions and opened old wounds. That along with his disgust with the Killbillies slovenly antics were more than Zeke had bargained for. He found Jesus, the Jesus he had loved as a boy before the Barbeque Murderer turned his world upside down and once again he retired, this time with piece of mind and the wisdom that comes with growing old.

"From here on in, it's jes' the Bible n' barbeque for old Zeke," he says. "Won't be long now 'fore I'm with my Mary Anne. And I pray every day to Jesus fer them Killbillies. But I'll be goddamned,... My fear is that them boys is goin' straight t'Hell".