Murder Mayhem In The Finger Lakes
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Author | : R. Marcin |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439671249 |
The pristine waters of the Finger Lakes inspire tranquility, but the region has not been spared a history of high-profile murders. George Chapman's execution for killing a hostler in a drunken rage drew one of the largest crowds in Seneca County's history. Charles Sprague was the only person from Yates County to be executed and the last person electrocuted at Auburn Prison after shooting a neighbor in a dispute over potatoes. A plea of insanity did not save James Williams from the electric chair after murdering an elderly man and attempting to rape a teenage girl. In the Feedbag Murder, the body of a missing man was found in a canal, and his friend was acquitted of the murder despite confessing to the crime years later. Author R. Marcin explores the gruesome history of homicide in the Finger Lakes.
Author | : R. Marcin |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467146145 |
"The pristine waters of the Finger Lakes inspire tranquility, but the region has not been spared a history of high-profile murders. ...Author R. Marcin explores the gruesome history of homicide in the Finger Lakes."--Back cover.
Author | : Ward O'Hara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Finger Lakes Region (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wendy Koile |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467145394 |
Lake Erie is known for its beauty and tranquility, but a dark, deadly undercurrent lurks beneath its surface. Bordering four states and two countries, the inland ocean offers the perfect getaway for criminals of all kinds. The bandits who held up the Ashtabula National Marine Bank as well as Ontario's most elusive con man used the lake to avoid capture. Pirate Joseph Kerwin relied on his knowledge of the shipping industry to evade the law. Narene Mozee's murderer quietly slipped away on a luxury cruise ship after completing his heinous deed, and when a lighthouse keeper found a corpse floating in the shallows near his post, all signs pointed to the killer fleeing by boat. Local author Wendy Koile wades into the depths of this great but deadly lake.
Author | : Matthew J. Prigge |
Publisher | : Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0870207172 |
From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all--"Milwaukee Mayhem" uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis. "Milwaukee Mayhem" offers a new perspective on Milwaukee's early years, forgoing the major historical signposts found in traditional histories and focusing instead on the strange and brutal tales of mystery, vice, murder, and disaster that were born of the city's transformation from lakeside settlement to American metropolis. Author Matthew J. Prigge presents these stories as they were recounted to the public in the newspapers of the era, using the vivid and often grim language of the times to create an engaging and occasionally chilling narrative of a forgotten Milwaukee. Through his thoughtful introduction, Prigge gives the work context, eschewing assumptions about "simpler times" and highlighting the mayhem that the growth and rise of a city can bring about. These stories are the orphans of Milwaukee's history, too unusual to register in broad historic narratives, too strange to qualify as nostalgia, but nevertheless essential to our understanding of this American city.
Author | : Frederick Stonehouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
From Books Back Cover: Great Lakes Crime: murder, mayhem, booze & broads. -- It may not have been the "Spanish Main" but pirates did sail the Great Lakes as did all manner of thieves and murderers. The great Sweetwater Seas had their fair share of criminal activity. Captains sunk their ships to collect the insurance and honest light keepers were "done in" for their meager savings! Throughout prohibition the great Lakes were the back door into America's heartland. Hundreds of boats hauled millions of gallons of illegal booze over the Lakes to wet the dry throats of honest citizens. Although bribes were often paid to assure a safe passage, sometimes bullets flew wild as bootleggers and government agents fought it out on the Inland Seas. On shore, a different kind of vice was practiced where the old saying the "a sailor has a girl in every port" often meant the "girl" insisted on a cash payment. Relive stories of murder, rum running, prostitution and more in this latest book from respected Great Lakes historian Frederick Stonehouse.
Author | : Claudia Mair Burney |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476727104 |
Amanda Bell Brown knows that life as a forensic psychologist isn't quite as cool as it looks on primetime TV. But when she turns 35 with no husband or baby on the horizon, she decides she has to get out and paint the town - in her drop-dead red birthday dress. Instead, she finds herself at the scene of a crime - and she may just know who the killer is. Murder, mayhem and a fine man are all wreaking havoc on Amanda's birthday, but will her newfound love of sleuthing leave her safe enough to see past 35?
Author | : Frederick Stonehouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dianna Higgs Stampfler |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467149950 |
The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.
Author | : John A. Buchholz |
Publisher | : North Country Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780962473845 |