Filter
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History
- TRUE CRIME / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History
- TRUE CRIME / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
11 products
The Nastiest Saloon in Iowa
9781467170826
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%"Wickedest place in the wickedest section of Des Moines” —Des Moines Register
In the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines—with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang—operated a campaign of murder, fraud, corruption, and prostitution from his bar on East Court Avenue. In 1908, the local paper denounced the neighborhood as “given up almost entirely to houses of prostitution. At one end stands a notorious saloon, the scene of many crimes, even murders, and for years a harbor for criminals and a plotting place for the evil minded."
That reviled enterprise was none other than Scott’s seedy shack of sin. Initially, Scott gained the most notoriety, due to a slaying, numerous assaults, and sex trade associated with his establishment. But a subsequent murder brought cousin Will to the forefront. A land fraud scheme involving all three Carter brothers followed, including grand theft and even more deaths.
Authors David and Rose Donovan recount the long-forgotten story of a crime family’s nefarious reach beyond the red-light district.
Murder in Salem, Massachusetts
9781467171298
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Without reservation, she opened the door. Without hesitation, she hopped into the car, adjusting the skirt of her summer-weight navy blue suit to keep it unwrinkled as she sat down.
And just like that, 19-year-old Frances Cochran jumped into the void.
On July 17, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts, attractive nineteen-year-old Frances Cochran stepped off a commuter bus and into a mysterious black automobile. Three days later, police discovered her mutilated body in a Salem lovers' lane.
Her murder made national headlines on the eve of World War II. Investigators checked twelve thousand cars and interviewed almost two thousand witnesses. They scrutinized a “Peeping Tom” men’s club. Despite leads that spanned the continent, decades passed and the killer was never caught. Like a poisonous vine, the death of Frances Cochran is tangled with other unsolved murders, including the 1947 Los Angeles Black Dahlia case.
As local author Rob Fitzgibbon reveals, it is also a story shrouded in the "Salem Factor,” the odd and inexplicable coincidences that occur in an area notorious for witchcraft and hauntings.
True Crime Burbank
9781467170291
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Burbank is known as a haven from the craziness of nearby Hollywood, but the city has a dark underbelly.
Nellie May Madison shot her husband to death at their home in 1934 and became the first woman to be condemned to death in California. The brutal 1953 murder of Mable Monohan inspired an Oscar-winning movie, but that didn’t save Barbara Graham and her killer collaborators from the gallows. In the decades that followed, infamous and violent offenders such as the “Dating Game Killer,” the “Toolbox Killers,” and “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez hunted for victims in the area, while slayings of detectives, private eyes, bookies, and secret gamblers piled up in the cold case files of the police department.
Award-winning author and journalist James T. Bartlett explores the sinister side of Burbank history.
Unsolved Murder of a Small-Town Iowa Principal and More Heartland Homicides, The
9781467172103
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Historic Crimes from the Hawkeye State
The 1895 death of Price V. Evans, the brand-new Osage High School principal, sparked a two-month “Was it suicide? Was it murder?” debate in Iowa. The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette proclaimed, “There has not been another tragedy in the history of Iowa that has called forth such bitter sentiment and been the cause of so much unseemly and wordy strife.” Osage authorities ruled it a suicide—despite being shot three times—while his hometown of Williamsburg declared murder. The Evans case, still unsolved today, leads this deep dive into not just one but four murders that rocked small-town Iowa over the course of a decade. Author Deb Nicklay explores the heart-wrenching rural cases that gripped an entire state.
