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  • Books, books, beautiful books.

    Books, books, beautiful books.

    The following are available from bookstores and online: Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in New York. Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in Northern California. Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in Southern California. Criminal Curiosities: Twelve Remarkable Reprobates you’ve Probably Never Heard Of. And my latest: Dark River: The Bloody Reign of the Ohio River Pirates.

    CrimeScribe

    December 1, 2020
    History, True Crime, Uncategorized
  • On This Day in 1942 – Toni Jo Henry, Louisiana’s first (and only) woman to be electrocuted.

    On This Day in 1942 – Toni Jo Henry, Louisiana’s first (and only) woman to be electrocuted.

    Toni Jo Henry or, to use her proper name, Annie Beatrice McQuiston, holds a singular place in the criminal history of the State of Louisiana. Not even fellow Louisiana murderess Louise Peete (executed in California five years later) holds quite so individual a niche. They were both from Louisiana, were both murderers and both were executed but, […]

    CrimeScribe

    November 28, 2022
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime
    Angola, Arkie, Beaumont, Calcasieu Parish, Camden, capital punishment, Cowboy Henry, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, death sentence, executed, execution, Father Wayne Richard, Governor Sam Jones, Grady Jarratt, Gruesome Gertie, Harold Finnon Burks, History, Huntsville, J.P. Calloway, Lake Charles, Lake Charles Jail, Louise Peete, Louisiana, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Louisiana State Police, murder, Texas, Texas Thunderbolt, Toni Jo Henry, true crime
  • Murder in Coweta County

    Murder in Coweta County

    Unknown to many, Wallace wa not the only prisoner to die that November day. Jimmie Richardson also had a date with the State Electrician, but even contemorary accounts rarely mention him. The reasons are depressingly simple. Convicted in June, 1950 of murdering his ex-partner, Richardson was African-American, poor and lacked the social status and expensive lawyers hired by Wallace. He also lacked the notoriety.

    CrimeScribe

    November 3, 2022
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime
    1950, Albert Brooks, Andy Griffith, capital punishment, Carroll County, Carrollton, class, Coweta County, crime and punishment, death penalty, electric chair, electrocuted, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia State Prison, historic, History, Jimmie Richardson, John Wallace, Johnny Cash, Meriweather County, Moreland, murder, old sparky, race, racism, Reidsville, Robert Lee Gates, Sheriff Hardy Collier, Sunset Tourist Camp, Tattnall County, true crime
  • 22 July 1934 – The death of Dillinger and the Texas Death House escape.

    22 July 1934 – The death of Dillinger and the Texas Death House escape.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    22 July 1934 is usually remembered for Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger, shot dead in an alley next to Chicago’s Biograph Theater. Betrayed by brothel-keeper Ana Cumpanas alias ‘Anna Sage,’ the notorious ‘woman in red’ whose dress that night was actually orange, Dillinger’s story finally ended in the traditional fashion.…

    CrimeScribe

    July 22, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • On This Day in 1945 – Pvt. George Edward Smith, on VE Day.

    On This Day in 1945 – Pvt. George Edward Smith, on VE Day.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    VE (Victory in Europe)?marked the official end of hostilities in the European theatre of operations and probably the largest, most joyous celebration in human history.Unless, of course, you happened to be former?US Army Air Forces?Private George Edward Smith. While most of the rest of the world basked in the joy of…

    CrimeScribe

    May 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • On This Day in 1963 – Alcatraz is consigned to penal history.

    On This Day in 1963 – Alcatraz is consigned to penal history.

    Opened in August, 1934, the ‘United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz’ was born of high hopes and new ideas for confining and breaking America’s most serious offenders. It ended on this day in 1963 after less than thirty years amid acrimony, embarrassment, hypocrisy and a sense of failure among America’s penologists. It had been billed as ‘America’s […]

    CrimeScribe

    March 21, 2022
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized
    crime, crime and punishment, History, true crime
  • On This Day in 1890 -Martha Place, the first woman in the electric chair.

    On This Day in 1890 -Martha Place, the first woman in the electric chair.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    A free chapter from my book ‘Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in New York,’ available now. Like many countries the US has an at times contradictory attitude to its death penalty, no more so than when a woman faces execution. Women account for fewer than 5% of death sentences in the US…

    CrimeScribe

    March 20, 2022
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  • On This Day in 1941, Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles does the Half-Moon Hop.

    On This Day in 1941, Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles does the Half-Moon Hop.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    On the night of November 12, 1941. Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, once a senior member of Murder Inc. and now one of the most important canaries in American history, prepared a makeshift ladder from the sixth floor of the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island, New York. He was in protective…

    CrimeScribe

    December 12, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • Books, books, beautiful books.

    Books, books, beautiful books.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    The following are available from bookstores and online: Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in New York. Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in Northern California. Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in Southern California. Criminal Curiosities: Twelve Remarkable Reprobates you’ve Probably Never Heard Of. And my latest: Dark River: The Bloody Reign of the Ohio River…

    CrimeScribe

    December 7, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • Dark River : The Bloody Reign Of The Ohio River Pirates

    Dark River : The Bloody Reign Of The Ohio River Pirates

    Dark River tells a fascinating, and not well known, story of an age of the Western frontier (1770-1850). Social pressures spurred on by rapid western expansion and years of warfare became the breeding ground for violence. This atmosphere brought about the creation of a unique type of person. Those who would use the Ohio River […]

    CrimeScribe

    December 3, 2021
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized
    Abraham Lincoln, Alamo, crime and punishment, Dark River, History, Iron Mistress, James Ford, Jim Bowie, John Hart Crenshaw, Micajah Harpe, murder, Ohio, Ohio River, Ohio River Valley, piracy, pirates, river pirates, Samuel Mason, serial killers, slavery, the Sturdivant Gang, true crime, Wiley Harpe
  • Merle Haggard, James ‘Rabbit’ Kendrick, Caryl Chessman, Eddie Bunker and Johhny Cash.

    Merle Haggard, James ‘Rabbit’ Kendrick, Caryl Chessman, Eddie Bunker and Johhny Cash.

    Robbing a supermarket near Madera turned “Rabbit” into the “Safeway Bandit.” Already wanted for the escape, Kendrick racked up another ten felony charges in the two weeks he was at large. They ended with an eleventh charge—the first-degree murder of a police officer. The Safeway Bandit had become a cop-killer; soon, he would return to San Quentin a condemned cop-killer. 

    CrimeScribe

    November 3, 2021
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized
    1960, 1961, Bakersfiield Sound, capital punishment, Caryl Chessman, Cell 2455 Death Row, Condemned Row, crime, crime and punishment, dead man comng, death penalty, death sentence, Eddie Bunker, escaped, executed, execution, Folsom, gas chamber, Governor Edmund Brown, History, Internal Revenue Service, Johnny Cash, Live at San Quentin, Los Angeles, Louis Goodman, Merle Haggard, murder, Patrolman Duvall, Rattlesnake James, Red Light Bandit, Reservoir Dogs, San Quentin, San Quentin Prison, Sing Me Back Home, The Animal Factory, true crime, Warden Clinton Duffy
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