Murder & Mayhem in Missouri

Murder & Mayhem in Missouri
Author: Larry Wood
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625842198

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Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides sometimes meted out whippings, called slickings, on each other. Or witness the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, a shootout between law enforcement officers and criminal gang members who were trying to free Frank Nash, a notorious gang leader being escorted to federal prison. Follow Larry Wood through the most shameful and savage portion of the Show-Me State's history.

Murder & Mayhem in Missouri

Murder & Mayhem in Missouri
Author: Larry Wood
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781540208422

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"This book will deal with notorious incidents that occurred throughout the state of Missouri from before the Civil War through the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s"--

Murder & Mayhem Jefferson City

Murder & Mayhem Jefferson City
Author: Ms. Michelle Brooks
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439678405

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The Dark Side of Jeff City The first century of the wilderness-born Missouri capital was filled with villainous escapes from the state's only prison, resulting in theft, abuse and even murder. The grandest of escape attempts ended with the city's only triple hanging. The capital city had plenty of entrepreneurs willing to sidestep the federal Volstead Act, which attracted Ku Klux Klan activity and culminated in the election of a "law and order" sheriff, whose deputies broke laws to enforce them. Many other tragedies grieved the community, including the South Side murder of a German immigrant by a teen-aged deputy, who had been caught sleeping with the victim's daughter. Author Michelle Brooks has collected a sample of some of the shocking events of Jefferson City's first century.

Murder and Mayhem In Randolph County, Missouri

Murder and Mayhem In Randolph County, Missouri
Author: Berry Lee Canote
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

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Many are under the assumption that crime is on the rise, but a look back at the history of major crimes in Randolph County, Missouri shows that over the 130 year history of the county crime has dropped to an all time low in the 21st century. Murder and Mayhem in Randolph County, Missouri covers many of the major crimes committed before 1960 in the county. You will read about murderer Hade Brown whose tale was sensationalized in the Kansas City papers, the tragic death of Julie Duvall, the robbery of the Wabash Depot in Huntsville, the murder of Thomas Bagby, lynchings, cold cases, and much more,

Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon

Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon
Author: JD Chandler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614238960

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A shocking true chronicle of some of Portland, Oregon’s most infamous criminal cases—from its wild roots as a frontier town to post-war 20th century. Here are some of the most horrifying crimes that made headlines and shook Portland, Oregon. The brutal Ardenwald axe murders. The retribution killings by Chinatown tongs. The fiendish acts of the Dark Strangler. In this compelling account, author JD Chandler chronicles the coverups, false confessions, miscarriages of justice, and the investigative twists of Portland’s sordid past. From the untimely end of the Black Mackintosh Bandit to the convoluted hunt for the Milwaukie Monster, Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon is a true crime account that acknowledges the officers who sought justice and remembers the victims whose lives were claimed by violence—all while providing important historical context.

Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas

Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas
Author: Larry E. Wood
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439666490

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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 well. Award-winning author Larry E. Wood explores thirteen of these remarkable episodes in the criminal history of southeast Kansas.

Murder and Mayhem

Murder and Mayhem
Author: J. Dale West
Publisher:
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2011
Genre: Lawrence County (Mo.)
ISBN:

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Missing or Murdered in Missouri: Unsolved and Solved Cases

Missing or Murdered in Missouri: Unsolved and Solved Cases
Author: Barbara Kemm-Highton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1465346236

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Like most other states, Missouri has a growing list of cold cases. Three women vanish from a home in Springfield in 1992 on high school graduation night. A young woman is abducted in Ava and murdered after mowing a church cemetery. A 9 year-old disappears and her body is found in 1975. A nurse and her children are killed in their home in a quiet new subdivision, and two mothers have vanished without a trace. An elderly woman who has been featured on the album cover of a popular band is murdered in her Aldrich home. Just as solved cold cases have become popularized in a variety of television documentaries, Missouri cases are also becoming closed. DNA has been the smoking gun in one 25 year-old homicide and has sent a prominent businessman to prison. People are talking and in the case of a 15 year-old murdered in 1982, there have been convictions. Surveillance tapes and cell phones have been added to the arsenal of evidence. Files are being revised and the media is featuring their stories again. These are some of the victims cases and their families who press on and the organizations, detectives, and experts who support them.

Murder & Mayhem Jefferson City

Murder & Mayhem Jefferson City
Author: Michelle Brooks
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2023-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467152277

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The Dark Side of Jeff City The first century of the wilderness-born Missouri capital was filled with villainous escapes from the state's only prison, resulting in theft, abuse and even murder. The grandest of escape attempts ended with the city's only triple hanging. The capital city had plenty of entrepreneurs willing to sidestep the federal Volstead Act, which attracted Ku Klux Klan activity and culminated in the election of a "law and order" sheriff, whose deputies broke laws to enforce them. Many other tragedies grieved the community, including the South Side murder of a German immigrant by a teen-aged deputy, who had been caught sleeping with the victim's daughter. Author Michelle Brooks has collected a sample of some of the shocking events of Jefferson City's first century.

Murder on the Missouri

Murder on the Missouri
Author: John English
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781482720266

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The unsolved murder of a judge's wife had shaken the sleepy town of Clinton, SD, in the 1960's. Fifty years later, John Henry Higgins receives a Winchester rifle for his birthday, the first in a chain of events that unwraps old mysteries and brings murder and mayhem to the banks of the Missouri.