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  • On This Day in 1957: Albert Anastasia, New York’s ‘Lord High Executioner,’ Murdered.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    Anastasia, murdered while getting a shave at New York’s Park Sheraton Hotel, was and remains one of the most callous and murderous criminals in American history. An illegal immigrant who jumped ship in 1919, he also jumped into New York’s underworld. Born into poverty in Parghelia, Italy in 1920 he would…

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    October 25, 2021
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  • George Harsh – Great Escaper and the ‘Milwaukee Thrill Slayer.

    George Harsh – Great Escaper and the ‘Milwaukee Thrill Slayer.

    Before George Rutherford Harsh, Jr. became a crucial member of the Great Escape he became the ‘Milwaukee Thrill Slayer,’ at least according to the Georgia newspapers. Shot down on a bombing raid over Cologne in 1943 while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force and a confirmed troublemaker in the eyes of his guards, Harsh […]

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    October 1, 2021
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized
    1944, armed robbery, Atlanta, Canada, capital punishment, clemency, Cologne, crime, crime and punishment, Dapper Dick, dead man walking, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, Depression, Eagle Squadrons, electric chair, England, escape, Georg Harsh, Georgia, Georgia Prison and Parole Commission, Georgia State Prison, Gestapo, Governor E.D. Rivers, Great Escape, History, Lonesome Road, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Thrill Slayer, murder, murderer, old sparky, Pearl Harbor, RCAF, Richard Gallogly, Royal Canadian Air Force, Stalag Luft III, Texas, The Great Escape, Toronto, true crime, tunnel, Wally Floody, Wisconsin, World War 2
  • On This Day in 1924 – Howard Hinton, Georgia’s first electrocution.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    The former Central State Prison Farm at Milledgeville, since demolished. It’s common to find ‘Peachtree Bandit’ Frank Dupre, armed robber and murderer executed on September 1, 1921 with Luke McDonald, listed as the last man to hang in Georgia. He wasn’t. That was Arthur Meyers, a murderer hanged at Augusta on…

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    September 13, 2021
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  • On This Day in 1953 – France’s last inmates return from Devil’s Island.

    On This Day in 1953 – France’s last inmates return from Devil’s Island.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    “The Bagne is a charnel house, a mass grave, running from syphilis to tuberculosis, with all the tropical diseases one can imagine (carrying malaria, ankylosis, amoebic dysentery, leprosy, etc.), all destined to work hand in hand with an Administration whose task it is to diminish the number of prisoners consigned to…

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    August 22, 2021
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  • On This Day in 1965: Joel Singer and Jack Franck, the real-life ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.’

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    If you’re a fan of Clint Eastwood then ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ is probably in your DVD collection. Not one of his better-known movies and perhaps not one of his best, but well worth watching all the same. Nor were Joel Singer and Jack Franck the original Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, that dubious…

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    August 18, 2021
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  • On This Day in 1963: New York State’s Last Execution, Eddie Lee Mays.

    On This Day in 1963: New York State’s Last Execution, Eddie Lee Mays.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    Eddie Lee Mays, his Death House file at Sing Sing Prison. August 15, 1963 was an historic day in New York’s penal history, although nobody involved knew it at the time. New York’s lawmakers didn’t know it. the Warden of New York’s infamous Sing Sing Prison (now the Ossining Correctional Facility)…

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    August 15, 2021
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  • On This Day in 1936 – George ‘Diamond King’ Barrett, first to die for murdering a Federal agent.

    On This Day in 1936 – George ‘Diamond King’ Barrett, first to die for murdering a Federal agent.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
    Barrett is certainly a criminal curiosity. His life was one of crime and allegedly several murders. The murder for which he finally died gave him an unwilling place in the chronicles of American crime, though he was hardly appreciated becoming one of history’s footnotes. So why did he hang in a…

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    August 14, 2021
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  • On This Day in 1890; William Kemmler – The World’s First Legal Electrocution.

    On This Day in 1890; William Kemmler – The World’s First Legal Electrocution.

    Originally posted on Crimescribe:
     William Kemmler and the world’s first electric chair. August 6, 1890 saw the dawn of a new age for criminal history. At Auburn Prison in upstate New York there was the execution.of one William Kemmler, condemned for murdering girlfriend Matilda Ziegler with a hatchet. There was nothing remarkable about Kemmler (an…

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    August 6, 2021
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  • Lloyd Sampsell, California’s ‘Yacht Bandit.’

    Lloyd Sampsell, California’s ‘Yacht Bandit.’

    A free chapter from my latest book ‘Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in Southern California,’ out now online and in bookstores. “I don’t know why this should bother me, but why in the hell should people be interested in what the condemned man ate for breakfast?” – Sampsell just before his execution.    Lloyd Sampsell was […]

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    July 27, 2021
    History, True Crime, Uncategorized
    Alcatraz, Arizona, Arthur Smith, Associate Warden Douglas Rigg, Bonnie and Clyde, buccaneers, Byron Eshelman, California, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Penal Code, capital punishment, Caryl Chessman, Coast Guard, Condemned Row, crime, crime and punishment, death penalty, Death Row Chaplain, death sentence, Earl Warren, Ethan McNabb, executed, execution, Father Dingberg, Federal Judge Louis Goodman, Folsom, gallows, gas chamber, Green Mountain Boys, Hangman's Hall, History, Jazz Age, Los Angeles, Mexico, murder, Public Enemy Number One, Revolutionary War, Roaring Twenties, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Quentin, San Quentin Prison, Seacrest Finance Company, Seattle, Sovereign, true crime, Tucson, US Supreme Court, Vancouver, Warden Harley Teets, William Bagley, Yacht Bandit
  • Dallas Egan, a half-pint of whiskey (to the last drop).

    Dallas Egan, a half-pint of whiskey (to the last drop).

       Armed robber and murderer Dallas Egan was rather younger than Gardner when he died on the gallows in San Quentin’s ‘Hangman’s Hall.’ Courtesy of Governor James ‘Sunny Jim’ Rolph,  Egan may well have been drunk as well. It was by Rolph’s order that Egan was plied with whiskey before his execution and it had […]

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    July 20, 2021
    History, Press And Politics, True Crime
    armed robbery, Bank of America, Black Friday, California, capital punishment, Clinton Duffy, Condemned Row, Court Smith, crime, crime and punishment, Dallas Egan, death penalty, death sentence, executed, execution, Folsom, Folsom Prison, George Turcott, Governor James Rolph, Governor Lynch, Guard Jack Peart, Hangman's Hall, History, Homer Rogers, Ida, J.J. Smith, James Johnston, Judge Pacht, Madera Tribune, murder, Oakland Cabriolet, San Quentin, San Quentin Prison, Sunny Jim, Sweet as Apple Cider, true crime, William Kirkpatrick
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