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The Sadist, the Hitman and the Murder of Jane Bashara

Author: George Hunter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1476633282

“Big Bob” Bashara put on a respectable face. To his friends in Detroit’s affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, he was a married father of two, Rotary Club President, church usher and soccer dad who organized charity events with his wife, Jane. To his “slaves,” he was “Master Bob,” a cocaine-snorting slumlord who operated a sex dungeon and had a submissive girlfriend to do his bidding—and he wanted more slaves to serve him. But Bashara knew he couldn’t rule a household of concubines on his income alone. He eyed his wife’s sizable retirement account and formulated a murderous plan. This meticulous account tells the complete story of the crime, the nationally watched investigation and trials, and the lives affected.

Master Betrayal

Author: Andrew Morlan

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781539676553

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Jane Bashara was a well liked marketing professional and mother of two from the prestigious Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Park. Her disappearance on the night of January 24, 2012 set off a firestorm of intrigue, but the discovery of her lifeless body was merely the beginning of a tawdry tale of deceit and conspiracy involving wholly unbelievable players and plot twists ... But this saga contains no fiction! Jane's husband Bob, who reported her missing, is hiding a mountain of secrets involving multiple mistresses, a handyman-turned-hitman and a secret plan to escape his 26-year marriage. His descent into the depths of a dark, sadomasochistic lifestyle would lead him down an irredeemable path of certain self-destruction. Culled from multiple first-hand sources, Master Betrayal is an unexpected odyssey from the perspective of family, friends and law enforcement, one spellbinding twist after another.

Hot Tickets

Author: H. George Frederickson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1476677875

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In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was perhaps the biggest scandal in college sports history, all seven members of the "Kansas Ticket Gang" pleaded guilty to RICO Act indictments. Five went to prison--two were given probation for turning state's evidence.

Media and the Murderer

Author: Rebecca Frost

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 147668152X

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Some criminals become household names, while others--even those who seek recognition through their crimes--are forgotten. The criminal's actions are only a part of every famous true crime story. Other factors, such as the setting and circumstances of the crimes and the ways in which others take control of the narrative, ultimately drive their notoriety. Through a comparison of the tellings and retellings of two famous cases more than a century apart--the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888, and the murder trials of Steven Avery as documented in Making a Murderer--this book examines the complicated dynamics of criminal celebrity.

The Snow Killings

Author: Marney Rich Keenan

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-06-29

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1476642044

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Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most extensive manhunt in U.S. history. Yet after less than two years, the task force created to find the killer was shut down without naming a suspect. The case "went cold" for more than 30 years, until a chance discovery by one victim's family pointed to the son of a wealthy General Motors executive: Christopher Brian Busch, a convicted pedophile, was freed weeks before the fourth child disappeared. Veteran Detroit News reporter Marney Rich Keenan takes the reader inside the investigation of the still-unsolved murders--seen through the eyes of the lead detective in the case and the family who cracked it open--revealing evidence of a decades-long coverup of malfeasance and obstruction that denied justice for the victims.

Words of a Monster

Author: Rebecca Frost

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-06-07

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1476637407

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Decades before the term "serial killer" was coined, H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago "Murder Castle." In his autobiography, Holmes struggled to define himself in the language of the late nineteenth century. As the "first"--or, as he labeled himself, "The Greatest Criminal of the Age"--he had no one to compare himself to, and no ready-made biographical structure to follow. Holmes was thus nearly able to invent himself from scratch. This book minutely inspects how Holmes represented himself in his writings and confessions. Although the legitimacy of Holmes' accounts have been called into question, his biography mirrors the narrative structure of the true crime genre that emerged decades after his death.

Put the Money in My Purse!

Author: Judith A. Yates

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1476645760

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Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers "literally robbing for Pampers" are narrated as part of the social history of women in America.

The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles

Author: Jeremy Agnew

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-10-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1476683832

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Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus. This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine. The author argues that quackery should not be defined by the ineffectiveness of a therapy, but rather be based on the fraudulent intent of the people who pushed dishonest and deceptive remedies.

Defending the Dillinger Gang

Author: D.M. Testa

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-10-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1476682097

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In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served. When a corrupt prosecutor was determined to send as many of the notorious John Dillinger gang to death row as possible, female attorneys Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins rose to the challenge. They skillfully represented six of the gang members, a number far greater than any of their male counterparts. And yet, their story of deals gone bad, wrongful convictions and success against the odds has all but vanished from history. The recent discovery of interviews, personal correspondence, and court transcripts--a treasure trove untouched for over 80 years--forms the basis for this book, which traces the careers of Jessie Levy, Bess Robbins and the John Dillinger gang in detail for the first time.