Tag: Internal Revenue Service

• 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

• On This Day in 1955 – Barbara ‘Bloody Babs’ Graham, John ‘Jack’ Santo and Emmett ‘The Weasel’ Perkins.

  

  A free chapter from my latest book ‘Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in Southern California.’ “Why waste good food on me? Give it to someone who can enjoy it.” – Barbara Graham on her last meal.    The controversy around Barbara Graham’s case has long outlived Graham herself. Executed on June 3 1955 and California’s third…

  CrimeScribe

  June 3, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

  Baxter Shorter, Bloody Babs, Burbank, California, Californians, Caryl Chessman, Corona, death penalty, Donna Prow, Emmett Perkins, executed, execution, Federal Judge Marylin Hall Patel, gas chamber, Governor Gavin Newsom, Governor Gooddwin Knight, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, J. Miller Leavy, Jack Santo, John True, Judge Charles Fricke, Judge Clement Nye, LAPD, Los Angeles, Mabel MOnahan, Max Brice, Monahan Murder Mob, murder, perjury, robbery, Sam Sirianni, San Quentin, Seymour Ettmann, Spanish Civil War, Tehachapi, Tutor Scherer, unconstitutional, Ventura Reform School, Warden Harley Teets, Willie Upshaw