Tag: Federal Judge Louis Goodman

• 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…

  CrimeScribe

  July 27, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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