Tag: Donald McGovern

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

  

  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 state which had long…

  CrimeScribe

  March 24, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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