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Author : Robert W. Pelton
Publisher : J. Flores Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780918751263
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Thieves, Con Men, and Murderers written by Robert W. Pelton and published by J. Flores Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Burch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886028951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Ghost Burglar written by Jack Burch and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard C. Welch was called the most prolific burglar of modern times. He eluded police up and down the East Coast for years and was finally caught only because he shot prominent heart surgeon, Dr. David Halberstam, who then hit Welch with his car as Welch fled the scene. Halberstam died and Welch was sentenced to 143 years plus life. Sent to an "escape-proof" prison in Illinois, Welch managed to trick federal officials to sending him to a facility on the Chicago River on the promise of becoming a snitch. There, he broke out with the help of an enforcer from the Aryan Nation he had hired. This book is the whole story of a Rochester, N.Y. plumber who turned thievery into a business, even to the point of keeping books and filing taxes with the IRS for a "legitimate" antiques and silver trading business.
Author : Nicholas Yapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445408842
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book True Crime written by Nicholas Yapp and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jamie King
Publisher : Summersdale
ISBN 13 : 1837992495
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)
Download or read book True Crime Stories written by Jamie King and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with terrifying tales of gruesome murders, grand theft and kidnappings, this compendium of the worst side of humanity is guaranteed to chill the blood Did you hear about London's Victorian, all-female gang? What about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist? Do you know the story of the killer nun? Prepare yourself for the urge to sleep with the light on and to double-check you've locked the door, because this collection of True Crime Stories is not for the faint-hearted. Spanning criminal activity from across the world, this book will take you on a journey to the darkest reaches of human nature. Ranging from white-collar criminals and con artists to kidnappers and killers, there's plenty to shred your nerves. Whether you're a true crime junkie or just morbidly curious, let these stories of charismatic criminals and their sinister deeds ensnare your interest and send a shiver down your spine.
Author : Tom Ajamie
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1629149497
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Financial Serial Killers written by Tom Ajamie and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By using true tales of thieves, swindlers, and fraudsters at work, Financial Serial Killers illustrates how these perpetrators get their hooks into investors' wallets, savings accounts, and portfolios—and never let go. The worst financial crisis since the great depression revealed that thousands of mom and pop investors had lost millions to so-called Mini-Madoffs. They are the thieves and conmen who had used phony financial acumen to steal investors' money, wipe out savings, and damage lives. Financial Serial Killers reveals the cons—from the grand to picayune—advisers cultivate with their victims—relationships that are essential to the fraud. Take the story of Lillian, the little old lady who invested with Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world. After her husband died, she thought her family's treasure of $24 million in stock controlled by Buffett was safe. It was—until a family relative introduced the eighty-nine-year-old grandmother to a pair of unscrupulous insurance agents who convinced her to reinvest her savings in life insurance—decimating her nest egg while padding the agents' pockets. Lillian's story, as well as other accounts of deceit and fraud, is the core of Financial Serial Killers. Readers will learn how to better protect their family's wealth and savings after reading this book.
Author : Lucy Moore
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906030
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Con Men and Cutpurses written by Lucy Moore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling anthology of 18th-century writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meeted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates. Captured in memoirs, letters, ballads and court transcripts are some of the most colourful villains ever to take their last gasp at the hangman's noose, including daring thief Jack Sheppherd, highwayman Dick Turpin and ingenious pickpocket Jenny Diver. Taking us from the backstreets and brothels to Newgate prison and the gallows at Tyburn, this anthology reveals London's murky underworld in all its squalor and exuberance.
Author : Nicholas Yapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445405629
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book True Crime written by Nicholas Yapp and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Pelton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781478155515
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Thieves, Con Men and Murderers written by Robert W. Pelton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PRISONER NOBODY WANTED! It all started in Wynne, Arkansas. Judge Harold Casoaer stared sternly at the lovely young defendant: "Blanche Palmer, you stand convicted of the murder of your common-law husband, Charles Turain. “Therefore it is the judgment of this court that you serve the next 21 years in the Arkansas State Penitentiary at Little Rock." Two days later, Sheriff E. L. Cooper and his comely prisoner arrived in Little Rock. They were met at the railroad station by Arkansas Gazette reporter Joe Wirges who drove them to the prison. The guard at the penitentiary gate carefully checked the court order handed him by Sheriff Cooper. "I'm sorry," he said, "but I can't accept this prisoner." "What do you mean you can't accept her! “Why not?" "Because, sir, this is a prison for men only. “She has to be taken to the State Farm at Jacksonville." The Sheriff was getting angry. "I don't care where she should go," he snapped. "The court's commitment order says the Arkansas State Penitentiary at Little Rock. “I've brought her here and here's where I leave her!" The guard shrugged and slammed the barred gate in Cooper's face. By now thoroughly frustrated, the Sheriff shouted: "Okay. “She's out here! “I've fulfilled my obligation. “She's all yours!" He promptly removed the handcuffs from the wrists of his bewildered prisoner. "What'll I do now?" the woman asked with an ambivalent voice. "I don't care what you do, madam. “They evidently don't want you in this prison. “Do as you damn well please!" She glanced at Wirges and asked: "Would you please drive me back to the station?" "Of course," he responded, "hop in." Blanche Palmer wasted no time getting in his automobile. A train was scheduled to depart soon after they arrived. Looking as radiant as would any woman from whom 21 years had just dropped, the one-time prisoner waved happily as the train left the station. That was on September 13, 1923. Blanche Palmer was never seen or heard from again. This is what Thieves, Con Men, & Murderers is all about. There are true stories about obscure unsolved murders and robberies. There are true stories about other bizarre crime capers that were solved. Learn, for example, about the millionaire murderer who was to be married and hanged on the same day. Just minutes from the gallows, he escaped by brazenly committing the "perfect crime." You can read about this in Chapter 4, He Beat the Hangman With a Perfect Crime. Read about the strange and fantastic chain of events surrounding a crime that stunned the world -- the theft of the Mona Lisa. It's all covered in Chapter 6, The Art Theft That Shocked the World. Businesses failed and banks closed, when the queen of society swindlers career of blackmail and fraud was exposed. The true tale can be found in Chapter 5, The Undisputed Queen of Society Swindlers. The Skyscraper Burglar – Best In the Business covered in Chapter 9 stole millions of dollars in his fantastic crime career, but a petty theft proved to be his demise. Read about most perfectly planned and executed holdup in the history of crime. It's found in Chapter 7, The Perfect Armored Truck Robbery. More than 26,000 fortune hunters became involved in an epic of perjury, forgery, stolen records and invented family skeletons in the phenomenal scramble for the Garrett fortune. This is covered in Chapter 11, The Only Good Heir is a Dead Heir. Here's the amazing story of a get-rich-quick artist who defrauded thousands and raked in more than $20-million in eight months. Read about this character in Chapter 8, Carlo Ponzi's Incredible Jackpot. Let's start out with a shocking horror tale, still clouded in mystery, of a cold-blooded killer. This heartless woman mercilessly butchered an astounding number of her lonely hearts paramours. You'll find it all in Chapter 2, "The Despicable Lonely Hearts Mass-Murderer."
Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316463582
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The King of Confidence written by Miles Harvey and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus) A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the Midland Authors Annual Literary Award A Michigan Notable Book A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Year "A masterpiece." —Nathaniel Philbrick In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king. From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds. Eventually, having run afoul of powerful enemies, including the American president, Strang was assassinated, an event that was frontpage news across the country. The King of Confidence tells this fascinating but largely forgotten story. Centering his narrative on this charlatan's turbulent twelve years in power, Miles Harvey gets to the root of a timeless American original: the Confidence Man. Full of adventure, bad behavior, and insight into a crucial period of antebellum history, The King of Confidence brings us a compulsively readable account of one of the country's boldest con men and the boisterous era that allowed him to thrive.
Author : Andrew Penman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906308582
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Thick As Thieves written by Andrew Penman and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a lot of criminals around - but, fortunately for the rest of us, a lot of them are really quite dense. Like the bungling burglar who logged on to his own Facebook page at his victim's house - and forgot to turn the computer off when he left, or the gormless getaway driver who wrote in his dairy 'Go Porsmouth [sic] Robbery happens' #NAME? Mirror's crime-fighter extraordinaire Andrew Penman has scoured the country for this hilarious collection of those who are not just bad, but also dim…very dim.
Author : William Steel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727241099
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Sex and the Serial Killer written by William Steel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, William Steel's life took a turn towards the macabre when he quite literally ran into Robert Durst in midtown Manhattan. Steel was attending a school for locksmithing and security systems at the time, and Durst -- the black sheep of a family that controls billions of dollars in New York real estate -- decided he could use a man of those specific talents. Little did Steel realize that his new acquaintance was not only the prime suspect in his first wife's mysterious disappearance but quite possibly the wealthiest serial killer in American history. For the better part of a decade, Steel and Durst maintained what has been called a friendship of mutual usury, as Durst paid Steel for use of his Brooklyn home to engage in drug- and fetish-fueled sex with a variety of prostitutes. As they got to know each other better, Durst boasted to Steel of darker deeds. Were they confessions of rape, torture and cold-blooded murder, or just the twisted fantasies of a maniacal multimillionaire? Steel didn't know for sure until years later. He's now convinced that Durst is, indeed, a murderous monster, and he remains haunted by thoughts that he should have done something to stop the fiend before he claimed more innocent lives. In his gripping memoir, Sex and the Serial Killer, My Bizarre Times with Robert Durst, Steel reveals the depths of the scion's depravity, and he demands justice for Durst's victims and their shattered families.NOTE: Parts of this book have been redacted for various legal and safety reasons.
Author : J. Lee Butts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101444819
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book And Kill Them All written by J. Lee Butts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to find her family's murderers, fifteen-year-old Clementine Webb vows to hunt them down, one by one. Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge tries to talk some sense into the little lady. Trading lead with stone- cold killers is men's work. At least it's what Lucius always thought- until darling Clementine shows her aim is true.
Author : Dave Donahue
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3730916114
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Sunshine Murders written by Dave Donahue and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a madman loose on the California coast leaving a trail or bodies on our beaches. John Brodis, lead detective is faced with a nightmarish case on his hands, putting his upcoming retirement on hold.
Author : Ken Magid
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553346679
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book High Risk written by Ken Magid and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IS YOUR CHILD AT HIGH RISK? Who are these children without a conscience? They are children who cannot trust, children who cannot love, children who will not be loved. They grow up to be charmers, con artists, amoral entrepreneurs, thieves, drug users, pathological liars, and worst of all: psychopathic killers . . . and they are often the product of even the best-intentioned families. For every parent of a “difficult” child, working parents, single parents, and adoptive parents, here is a book that addresses one of our society’s greatest problems. High Risk offers sobering case histories an invaluable suggestions for raising healthy children and protecting ourselves from the “trust bandits” who would steal our love, our money—our very lives. In High Risk you will learn how to: • Recognize character-disturbed children and adults • Prevent the development of antisocial behavior • Choose healthy child-care and school environments • Find the best professional help if your child is at risk • Minimize the trauma of adoption and foster care • Protect yourself from exploitative relationships in both your business and personal life • And much more. Foreword by Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder
Author : Colleen Egan
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459613384
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Murderer No More written by Colleen Egan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even great courts and independent judges can sometimes get things wrong. Reading this book, we should resolve to strengthen our defences against miscarriages of justice.' The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, past Justice of the High Court of Australia In 1994 Pamela Lawrence was brutally bashed to death in her jewellery shop in Perth. Police suspicion fell on a young drifter named Andrew Mallard. Although innocent, he was charged and convicted of this murder. It took 12 years and an epic struggle by Andrew's mother and sister, a team of lawyers and West Australian journalist Colleen Egan to right this wrong. Not only did their unrelenting battle for justice end in the High Court of Australia making a devastating judgment against the West Australian courts, but it also led to cold-case investigators identifying the real murderer. This is an emotional roller-coaster of a book, brilliantly and compellingly written. It is about justice, survival and what can happen when good people take on the system.
Author : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841116
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Vice Districts written by Troy Taylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip through the history of the Windy City’s lawless districts where you could lose your money and your life—from the author of Haunted Illinois. From the very beginning, Chicago thrived on its reputation as a wide-open town. After the Great Fire, no part of the city was rebuilt more quickly than the vice districts, where bribed cops and brutal force emboldened professional wickedness to celebrate itself with gala events like the First Ward Ball, begun in honor of a madam’s pianist and often so crowded that passed-out drunks couldn’t even fall to the floor. Randolph Street was nicknamed Gambler’s Row because men gambled with their lives by visiting it. In Little Hell, guns and knives could be rented by the hour. In these seedy areas only put to sleep by Mickey Finn’s knockout drinks or Gentle Annie’s knockout punches, it is no wonder that Detective Woolridge kept seventy-five disguises, made twenty thousand arrests and was shot at forty-four times. Includes photos!
Author : Daniel J. Sherman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253009189
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Long 1968 written by Daniel J. Sherman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into a tumultuous year’s impact on art, culture, and politics, this book “illuminates the often-overlooked histories of 1968” (The Journal of American History). From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations—and its uses today.
