True Crime Stories of Burlington, Vermont
Author: Thea Lewis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1467154458
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True Crime Stories of Burlington, Vermont
Author: Thea Lewis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1439679134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Burlington has long been known as the shining jewel in Vermont’s crown, but a current of darkness flows beneath this charming port on Lake Champlain. There is a sordid side to the city that top-ten lists routinely call "one of the country’s most livable cities,” with stories of dirty cops, notorious ladies of the night, knife wielding psychopaths, lovers off the deep end and famous serial killers. Author and tour guide Thea Lewis showcases the cunning culprits who would go to any lengths to get what they wanted, and finally got what was coming to them.
Vintage Vermont Villainies
Author: John Stark Bellamy
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 2007-08-28
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is true crime for every country home bed table. Containing accounts of ten classic murders and two inexplicable disappearances, Vintage Vermont Villainies is a veritable "best of the best" of Vermont homicides occurring between 1874 and 1957. Bellamy's catalog of miscreants includes Mary Rogers, whose seduction of two brothers paved the way to eliminating her inconvenient husband; and John Winters, whose date with the electric chair enlisted the sympathies of Clarence Darrow.
Death of Innocence
Author: Peter Meyer
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
Author: Cathy Pickens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467145114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as puzzling as the questions. Mystery author Cathy Pickens details an assortment of quirky cases, including a duo of poisoning cases more than one hundred years apart, a band of folk hero swamp outlaws, sex swingers and a couple of mummies. Each story has, in its way, helped define Eastern North Carolina and its history.
Triangle True Crime Stories
Author: Cathy Pickens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1467147451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →North Carolina's Triangle region is known for universities, research facilities and politics, but even in such a prosperous, diverse, modern environment, crime helps define the edges. These cases cover several decades of murder, fraud and betrayal. Read about the nation's largest prison escape and a couple of North Carolina's poisoners. From a civil rights-era clash of Old South and New and a suspected Cold War spy to new-tech sleuths and tales of diligent as well as discredited investigators, these stories will keep you entertained and aghast at the dark side of daily life. Crime writer Cathy Pickens explores a collection of headline-grabbing tales that shows the sinister side of the Triangle's cities.
Murder in Old Kentucky
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0253057493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kentucky—land of bluegrass, horse racing, bourbon, and . . . murder. In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp—a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren—and the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, a heartbreaking murder of three innocent teenagers. This revised and expanded edition includes the story of a family terrorized by an arsonist who massacred eleven of their members and burned the property of even more, the tale of a husband and wife found shot in each other's arms with a life-sized photo of another man between them, and many more deaths that made headlines. Meticulously researched and written with McQueen's trademark humor, Murder in Old Kentucky will captivate any fan of true crime or Kentucky history.
The Death of Innocence
Author: Peter Meyer
Publisher:
Published: 1983-11-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780880150118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charlotte True Crime Stories: Notorious Cases from Fraud to Serial Killing
Author: Cathy Pickens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 146714245X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Crimes that captivated attention in the Charlotte area over the years run the gamut from missing people to the wrongly accused. This collection of headline stories features violent motorcycle gangs, crusading mothers, a fraudster who claimed a president was poisoned by his wife, a serial killer who broke all the rules and even a man who made Bigfoot. With a mystery novelist's ear for a good tale, Cathy Pickens presents more than a century of sensational sinister deeds that marked this diverse and dynamic city.
True Crime Chronicles, Volume One
Author:
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1952225264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Original newspaper reports of Wyatt Earp, Belle Gunness, Billy the Kid, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and others compiled by the New York Times–bestselling author. Former detective and bestselling author Mike Rothmiller has brought together classic works of journalism that will take the reader back to when these horrific tales mesmerized a nation. Some may find these articles and their descriptions of people and crimes shocking by today’s standards, but they are representative of the most colorful true crime stories of the day. True Crime Chronicles, Volume One includes stories about Belle Gunness, who had a penchant for killing men and feeding them to her hogs, Dr. Holmes and his “murder castle,” The Bloody Benders, and Amelia Dyer, the “baby farmer,” the darker side of Wyatt Earp, and the forerunners of the American Mafia, “The Black Hand.” Imagine yourself accompanying these reporters visiting the crime scenes, interviewing witnesses, and penning the stories of murder, lynchings, evil, and swift frontier justice.
