Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Southern California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Southern California write by Robert Walsh. This book was released on 2021-05-24. Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Southern California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Southern California can be called a sunny place for shady people. Its criminal history is as rich and varied as anywhere. Old West outlaws, serial killers, gangsters and thieves have all robbed, raided, killed and died south of Sacramento. Home to the movie business, Los Angeles has long been a place of bright lights and dark deeds. Major Raymond Lisenba, California's last man to hang, committed murder-by-rattlesnake. Fueled by a half-pint of illegal whiskey, Dallas Egan danced his way to the gallows. Yacht Bandit Lloyd Sampsell cruised California's coast like a latter-day buccaneer, only visiting dry land for another robbery. Joaquin Murieta terrorized the goldfields and Southern California, entering Californian history and folklore in the process. Billy Cook entered popular culture (and San Quentin's gas chamber), inspiring The Doors' Riders on the Storm and classic film The Hitcher. James Rabbit Kendrick's execution inspired friend and fellow-convict Merle Haggard to go straight. Haggard immortalized Kendrick with country classic Sing Me Back Home. Some are well-remembered, others long forgotten, but all have their own place in California's chronicles of crime.
Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Northern California
Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Northern California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Northern California write by Robert Walsh. This book was released on 2020. Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Northern California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Northern California has a fascinating criminal history. Some of America's most infamous criminals and outlaws lived and died in the area, including John Paul Chase, partner of Public Enemy Number One, Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis. Others have come from far afield to exploit the opportunities of Californian crime. Englishman Charles Boles, AKA "Black Bart the Poet," was only one of many. With crime, naturally, comes punishment. In 1937, the Folsom Five tried to escape, murdering Warden Clarence Larkin in the process. Instead of escaping Folsom, they entered California's history as the first men to die in its new gas chamber the next year. The legendary Battle of Alcatraz ended in bloodshed and recriminations from prison staff and convicts alike, with accusations that staff needlessly endangered convicts' lives and arranged the wrongful execution of convict Sam Shockley. Northern California may not be as well-known for its crime as Southern California, but it's a fascinating part of the Golden State's history all the same.
California's Most Notorious Crimes
California's Most Notorious Crimes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook California's Most Notorious Crimes write by MARGARET. LAPLANTE. This book was released on 2024-07-31. California's Most Notorious Crimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From California's mountain peaks to the desert and over to the ocean lie many true crime stories, many of which remain unsolved. Explore some of California's most notorious crimes, including bank robbers who made their getaway on a yacht; a woman who kept her boyfriend hidden in the attic of the house she shared with her husband for eighteen years; the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building that resulted in the deaths of twenty employees; the unsolved San Diego murders; and the mysterious death of one of Hollywood's leading actresses. Read about many daring escapes from Alcatraz, including one that became known as "the Battle of Alcatraz," after a group of inmates took control of the prison. Also within the pages of this book are the true stories of a female gang leader who ordered a hit on one of her own gang members; a man who committed murder in order to fake his own death and reap his life insurance benefits; and the gangs that terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, leaving behind murders, robberies, car jackings, burglaries, and a shootout with law enforcement that resulted in three officers killed in the line of duty.
Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Hollywood and Los Angeles
Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Hollywood and Los Angeles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Hollywood and Los Angeles write by Janice Oberding. This book was released on 2021-01-25. Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Hollywood and Los Angeles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Murder is shocking. The savagery of Elizabeth Short's (also known as the Black Dahlia) slaying was beyond anything Los Angeles, indeed the U.S., had experienced. Short would not be the only young woman in Los Angeles during the 1940s to suffer at the hands of a brutal and sadistic killer, a killer who was never caught. Senseless murder, rape, and robbery were a common thread throughout the streets of Los Angeles of the mid-twentieth century. Men and women without much hope, and even less money, were all too often the victims and the perpetrators. However, the wealthy were not exempt. Love, rage, jealousy, and money were all reasons for the murders, mysteries, and misdemeanors covered in this book, from one end of Los Angeles to the other.
Gambling with Murder
Gambling with Murder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gambling with Murder write by Lida Sideris. This book was released on 2022-03-29. Gambling with Murder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A late-night call is all it takes for Corrie Locke to kiss her day job goodbye, and do what she does best: go undercover to find a senior who's missing from a posh retirement community.
