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Misfortune on Cleveland's Millionaires' Row - Paperback

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by Alan Dutka (Author)Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior.May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine laced with poison, killing his entire family including himself. Married to a Millionaires' Row doct...

North Carolina Moonshine: An Illicit History - Paperback

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by Mulder (Author)North Carolina holds a special place in the history of moonshine. For more than three centuries, the illicit home-brew was a way of life.NASCAR emerged from the illegal moonshine tradeas drivers such as Junior Johnson, accustomed to r Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: January 09, 2017

The Witch of Delray: Rose Veres & Detroit's Infamous 1930s Murder Mystery - Paperback

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by Karen Dybis (Author)Author Karen Dybis follows the twists and turns of a shocking story, revealing the truth of Detroit's own Hex Woman.Detroit was full of stark contrasts in 1931. Political scandals, rumrunners and mobs lurked in the shadows of the city's soaring architecture and industrious population. As the Great Depression began to take hold, tensions grew, spilling over into the investigation of a mysterious murder at the boardinghouse of Hungarian immigrant Rose Veres. Amid accusati...

Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Randall (Author)More than four decades after it occurred, the murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley remains notorious... and unsolved.The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her white mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities. Bemis was later murdered on her nightly walk. Author Elizabeth Randall puts the rumors to rest through research culled from over one...

The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia - Paperback

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by Amy Petulla (Author)Author Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth.In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the castle in the woods in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve...

Alabama Lore: The Choccolocco Monster, Huggin' Molly, the Lost Town of Cottonport and Other Mysterious Tales - Paperback

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by Wil Elrick (Author)Join author Wil Elrick as he explores the history behind some of the Cotton State's weird and legendary tales.Mysterious 1989 UFO sightings brought more than 4,000 visitors to the tiny town of Fyffe, population 1,300. Legends of the Alabama White Thang - an elusive, hairy creature with a shrill shriek - persisted in the state for a century. Just outside Huntsville's historic Maple Hill Cemetery lies an eerie playground where the ghosts of departed children are rumored to...

The Rise & Fall of Nashville Lawyer Tommy Osborn: Kennedy Convictions - Paperback

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by William L. Tabac (Author)Author William L. Tabac describes the extraordinary legal proceeding with the twists and turns of a modern television drama and the fall of a prominent attorney.Tommy Osborn's star was rising. The young Nashville lawyer led a band of Tennessee reformers to victory in a landmark Supreme Court case. Hailed by Chief Justice Earl Warren as the most important of his career, Baker v. Carr's one man, one vote mandate revolutionized how Americans chose their representative...

The Hunt for the Last Public Enemy in Northeastern Ohio: Alvin Creepy Karpis and His Road to Alcatraz - Paperback

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by Julie A. Thompson (Author), Ian Craig (Foreword by)The last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin Creepy Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen bank robberies, fourteen murders, three jailbreaks and two kidnappings.His criminal career came to an end when J. Edgar Hoover and his famed G-Men apprehended the man they wanted more than any other in New Orleans. From there, Karpis found himself confined on Alcatraz Island, where he spent nearly twenty-six ye...

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by Jane Ann Turzillo (Author)Award-winning crime writer Jane Ann Turzillo recounts the stories of Ohio's most notorious vixens, viragoes and villainesses.The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and '90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II. Because she fell in love with the wrong man, she ...

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by Yance Marti (Author)Local historian Yance Marti uncovers the rough and rowdy blackguards who once made Milwaukee infamous.The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red-light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high-class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a ...

The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California: An 1896 Unsolved Mystery - Paperback

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by Tobin Gilman (Author)On the morning of May 27, 1896, the peaceful township of Campbell awoke to shocking news. Six people were brutally murdered at the home of Colonel Richard P. McGlincy, one of the town's most respected citizens. The suspect, James Dunham--the colonel's son-in-law--fled the scene and disappeared into the hills of Mount Hamilton overlooking Santa Clara County. This heinous crime triggered a massive, nationwide manhunt while investigators pieced together the details. Autho...

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by Tobin T. Buhk (Author)Author Tobin T. Buhk recounts the thrilling tales of Detroit's most violent, clever and misunderstood female criminals.Queen of the Underworld Sophie Lyons faced off with detective Teresa Lewis in court three times, and twice in the street, rendering both women battered and bloodied. Nellie Pope goaded her lover to axe her husband in what the press called one of the most atrocious, cold-blooded, and deliberately-planned murders in city history. Mother Elinor L. Mason,...

Sins of the South: Big Secrets in a Small Town - Paperback

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by Maureen Hughes (Author)SINS OF THE SOUTH exposes the mafia connection in small communities. The death of a swanky nightclub owner in southern Illinois in 1956 is ruled a suicide by local law enforcement and some state investigators...Why? Why, at the inquest, was the medical examiner who performed the autopsy not permitted to testify? Why were only certain witnesses allowed to testify? When three bullets were fired...how can it be suicide?Author BiographyA criminal investigator, Maureen Hu...

Lost at Sea: The Hunt for Patrick McDermott - Paperback

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by Philip R. Klein (Author)The real story behind the hunt for Patrick McDermott, NBC TV and Hollywood; the story nobody has told through the eyes of Philip R. Klein, the lead investigator. Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: January 20, 2012

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by Thea Lewis (Author)Author Thea Lewis takes a revealing ride through the unique and colorful history of the Green Mountain State.Vermont is a picturesque landscape, but the idyllic setting hides a sometimes dark and desperate past. H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer, may have been the University of Vermont's deadliest student. A Burlington resident made an empire partly by carrying contraband goods to and from Canada. The first United States president subject to a birther movement w...

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by Marla Hardee Milling (Author), Joshua P. Warren (Foreword by)Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling.Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself America's Hitler and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war...

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by Donald Charles Davis (Author)Out Bad is a true story about motorcycle outlaws and modern American police. It begins with the painstakingly assembled, never before told story of the murder of a Mongols Motorcycle Club member named Manuel Vincent "Hitman" Martin. Martin was shot off his motorcycle on the Glendale Freeway in Los Angeles about 2 a.m. on October 8, 2008. Initial reports alleged that Martin had been murdered by the Hells Angels and that he died as part of an ongoing, "furious fe...

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by Mickey Lyons (Author)The Motor City boasts a long and sordid history of scoundrels, cheats and ne'er-do-wells. The wheeling and dealing prowess of founding father Antoine Cadillac is the stuff of legend. Fur trader and charlatan Joseph Campau grew so corrupt and rambunctious that he was eventually excommunicated by Detroit's beloved Father Gabriel Richard. The slovenly and eccentric Augustus Brevoort Woodward, well known as a judge but better known as a drunkard, renamed himself, reshaped ...

Seattle Prohibition: Bootleggers, Rumrunners and Graft in the Queen City - Paperback

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by Brad Holden (Author), Paul de Barros (Foreword by)Prohibition consumed Seattle, igniting a war that lasted nearly twenty years and played out in the streets, waterways and even town hall. Roy Olmstead, formerly a Seattle police officer, became the King of the Seattle Bootleggers, and Johnny Schnarr, running liquor down from Canada, revolutionized the speedboat industry. Frank Gatt, a south Seattle restaurateur, started the state's biggest moonshining operation. Skirting around the law, the...

Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break - Paperback

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by Kenneth M. Lamaster (Author)On December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind Leavenworth's limestone penitentiary walls as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George Machine Gun Kelly and Thomas James Holden, they blazed a path to freedom with stolen cars and terrorized hostages. Anyone who could carry a gun and knew the terrain quickly picked up the pursuit. Kenneth LaMaster wades into the flying bullets of first-person accounts, news...

Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery - Paperback

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by John Leake (Author)In August of 1989, Duncan MacPherson-a pro hockey player from Saskatoon, Canada-vanished without a trace in Europe. With no help from the police, his parents, Lynda and Bob, drove all over the Alps looking for him, and finally found his car at the Stubai Glacier, a popular ski resort near Innsbruck, Austria. Thus began their twenty-year struggle to discover why their son had disappeared after snowboarding on a beginner slope. Had he, as the local police suggested, wander...

Chicago's First Crime King: Michael Cassius McDonald - Paperback

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by Kelly Pucci (Author)Michael Cassius McDonald arrived in Chicago as a teenage scam artist who quickly sketched a blueprint for running the city through its criminal underworld. Chicago's original mob boss, he procured presidential pardons, stuffed mayoral ballot boxes and operated the town's plushest gambling parlor. But he was also a philanthropist who befriended Clarence Darrow, employed Theodore Dreiser, promoted the World's Fair and funded the Lake Street L. His scandalous private life ...

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by William Burg (Author)In the early 1900s, Sacramento became a battleground in a statewide struggle. On one side were Progressive political reformers and suffragettes. Opposing them were bars, dance halls, brothels and powerful business interests. Caught in the middle was the city's West End, a place where Grant Skewball Cross hosted jazz dances that often attracted police attention and Charmion performed her infamous trapeze striptease act before becoming a movie star. It was home to the Qu...

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by Tim Crumrin (Author)Join local historian Tim Crumrin as he reveals the blackguards, rogues and swindlers of Terre Haute's rough and rowdy past.For more than a century, Terre Haute earned its reputation as a sin city. One of the most notorious red-light districts in the Midwest, the West End, housed sixty brothels and nearly one thousand prostitutes at its height in the 1920s. Across this sordid scene strode the stylish and indomitable Edith Brown, the city's most famous madam. When Prohibi...

Echoes of Shannon Street: The Kidnapping and Murder of Officer Robert S. Hester - Paperback

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by Kelly Nichols (Editor), Dana Howell (Editor), James R. Howell (Author)A documentary titled, "Shannon Street: Echoes Under A Blood Red Moon, A Memphis Tragedy", based on the book is due to be released in the Spring of 2016. The film adaptation is in Pre-Production. It is, to this day, the largest number of suspects to die in a non-riotous, local police action in this country. Echoes of Shannon Street is a true crime police procedural that tells the story of the abduction of two white police...

The True Story of the Sharpest Ever-: Michael Eugene Sharp - Paperback

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by Mike Eggleston (Author) Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 12, 2012

Notorious Nashville: Scoundrels, Rogues and Outlaws - Paperback

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by Brian Allison (Author)Many people know Nashville for the bright lights and nonstop music, but it also has a history that doesn't make it into the guidebooks. The first public hanging in the city took place in 1802 when Henry Beeler and Samuel Carman were executed for horse theft and larceny. The Briley and Bates families held a deadly feud in Cane Ridge near the turn of the century. Frank and Jesse James returned to Tennessee in the summer of 1877 to lay low after a botched bank robbery. A...

Historic Mysteries of Western Colorado: Case Files of the Western Investigations Team - Paperback

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by David P. Bailey (Author)From Mesoamerican mysteries to local legends, history waits to be unearthed on Colorado's western slope. Revelations include discovering new evidence in the infamous Alferd Packer case and old Spanish colonial relics near Kannah Creek. Investigators follow the trail of lost Spanish explorers searching for the Seven Cities of Gold and pursue archaeological signs of a prehistoric civilization north of Collbran. Expeditions search for the legend of the Utes' Cave of th...

Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas - Paperback

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by Larry E. Wood (Author)From railroad towns like Ladore to cow towns like Newton and Wichita, southeast Kansas pulsed with rowdy activity during the late nineteenth century. The unruly atmosphere drew outlaws, including the Dalton Gang, and even crazed serial killers the likes of the Bender clan. Violent incidents, from gunfights to lynchings, punctuated the region's Wild West era, and the allure of the frontier also attracted the everyday people whose passions sometimes spawned bloodshed as...

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by Dave Dye (Author), Wendy Wilburn (Author)Entirely rooted in true events, this firsthand non-fiction account is as strange as anything in a murder mystery novel. Taruk Ben- Ali had been missing for over four years. His wife was devastated, and Taruk's father worked to convince her that his son had skipped out on her. In truth, Taruk had never gone anywhere. Could his father have murdered his own son, hiding Taruk's body in the walls of an apartment building ? Wendy Wilburn, Taruk's wife, ne...

Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator - Paperback

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by Janet Reno (Author)The sudden or unexplained death of an individual has a profound impact on families and friends of the deceased and places significant responsibility on the agencies tasked with determining the cause of death. Increasingly, science and technology play a key role in death investigations. One of the hallmarks of science is adherence to clear and well-grounded protocols. In many jurisdictions, responsibility for conducting death investigations may rest with pathologists, med...

Whatever Happened To Raoul Wallenberg?: The True Story Of Holocaust Hero Raul Wallenberg And The Author's Efforts To Rescue Him From Soviet Union Impr - Paperback

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by Morris Wolff (Author)A fascinating true story of one man's effort to save Swedish diplomat -War Hero Raoul Wallenberg from the dungeons of the gulag where he was thrown after the KGB kidnapped him from Hungary on Jan 17, 1945. Author Morris Wolff sued the Soviets for Wallenberg's release and won a 39 million dollar verdict. Then Wolff went to Israel to enlist the Mossad in a rescue effort and in 1998 enlisted former US Ambassador to Moscow David M Evans. Evans, in the final pages of the bo...