Author: Fred D. Cavinder Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614232032 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 180
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From the 1954 “Dresser Drawer Murder” to the mass killing of seven people in 2006, the author of Forgotten Hoosiers chronicles Indianapolis’s dark history. Hear tales from the Circle City’s murderous underbelly, from poor Silvia Likens, who was tortured for months by her foster mother and eventually discovered dead, to Carrie Selvage, whose skeleton was found in an attic twenty years after she disappeared from a hospital bed in 1900. Discover how housekeepers found Dorothy Poore stuffed in a dresser drawer on a July day in 1954 and the curious story of Marjorie Jackson, her body was discovered clothed in pajama bottoms and a flannel robe on her kitchen floor, and police found $5 million hidden around her house in garbage cans, drawers, closets, toolboxes and a vacuum cleaner bag. Join local historian Fred Cavinder as he recounts the gruesome tales of Indiana’s capital city, from mystery to murder. Includes photos!
Author: Patrick R. Pearsey Publisher: ISBN: 9781075485435 Category : Languages : en Pages : 406
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I wrote this book to highlight some of the most bizarre and famous cases that the Indianapolis Police Department has investigated. This quiet city at the Crossroads of America had an assortment of strange and dangerous characters pass through it in the 20th century. Among them were "Blondie", who enjoyed torturing her victims while singing love songs to her boyfriend. "Ted" Carr, a psychopath who experienced "Instant Karma" while murdering his last victims. WWI veteran Howard Ellis, who brought his own war to Indianapolis and single handedly shot nine police officers holding off 200 more. In 1943, WAC Corporal Maoma Ridings, who had been FDR's favorite nurse, comes to the Claypool Hotel for a weekend of fun and finds death. Even a gang leader who rightfully earned the name "The King of the Ghouls" by robbing hundreds of graves of the freshly buried. This book lets the reader take a peek into the Indianapolis Police case book and see the steps taken by its detectives to track down and apprehend the suspects in these cases. Internal documents and photographs from the police archives and other sources are presented here for the first time. - Patrick Pearsey, Police Archivist
Author: Julie Young Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439667268 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 135
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The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. “What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today.” —Fox59 The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant for the following day. But then something went horribly wrong. Just before midnight, someone muscled into the place, robbed the store of $581 and kidnapped the four employees. Over the next two days, investigators searched in vain for the missing crewmembers before their bodies were discovered more than twenty miles away. The killer or killers were never caught. Join Julie Young on an exploration of one of the most baffling cold cases in Indiana history. “Young doesn’t try to solve the murders. Instead, her goal is to make sure no one forgets the victims.” —IndyStar
Author: Keven Mcqueen Publisher: History Press Library Editions ISBN: 9781540223067 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 130
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"Describes various historical murder cases from Indiana history ranging from the late 19th century to the 1930s. The cases include solved and unsolved crimes, along with social insight into the times in which they were committed"--
Author: Andrew E. Stoner Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1600080243 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 519
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Hoosiers witness their share of human darkness. Stoner delves into this dark side with a look at the most heinous murders that have taken place in each of Indiana's 92 counties.
Author: Wendy Gamber Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421420201 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 321
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In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. Suspicion for both deaths turned to Nancy Clem, a housewife who was also one of Mr. Young's former business partners. Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme.
Author: Andrew E. Stoner Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 161423339X Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 160
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These are not the aspects of Indianapolis history you'll see flaunted in visitors' brochures. These are the abhorrent, the grim, the can't-look-away misdeeds and miscreants of this city's past, when bicycle messenger boys peddled through the night to link prostitutes with johns and when the bigoted masses tightened their grip on the city behind mayor and Klansman John Duvall. From the unseemly to the deviant to the disastrous, Hoosier Andrew E. Stoner brings you lives as out of control as the worst wreck at the Indy 500 with a history as regrettable as it is riveting.
Author: Janis Thornton Publisher: Quarry Books ISBN: 0253052793 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 271
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A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night. An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.
Author: John Dean Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 9781429944021 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 256
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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come... When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death. Soon they would learn how many others—including some of Baniszewski's own children—participated in Sylvia's murder, and just how much torture had been inflicted in one HOUSE OF EVIL
Author: Fred D. Cavinder
Author: Fred D. Cavinder
Author: Patrick R. Pearsey
Author: Julie Young
Author: Keven Mcqueen
Author: Andrew E. Stoner
Author: Wendy Gamber
Author: Andrew E. Stoner
Author: Janis Thornton
Author: John Dean