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On This Day in 1885, NOT Roxalana Druse.
Roxalana Druse, convicted of brutally murdering husband William, would have entered New York State’s chronicles of crime on this day in 1885. The Empire State’s last woman to hang (and the first hanging in Herkimer County) she had been condemned on October 6. Her defence had been diminished capacity caused by William’s alleged abuse. Prosecution…
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1944, Abe Reles, Albert Anastasia, Amos Squire, Angel of Death, Anna Antonio, appeal, appealed, appeals, armed robberies, armed robbery, assassin, assassinated, assassination, Atlanat, Atlanta, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Attica, Auburn Prison, Baby Face Nelson, bank robbery, Ben Hnace, Big Greenie, Big Moose Lake, books, bootleggers, bottlegging, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Combination, Brownsville, Buffalo, Bugsy Siegel, Burton Turkus, capital punishment, carbon monoxide, Carlyle Harris, Charlie the Bug Workman, Chester Gillette, clemency, clemency denied, Condemned Cells, Connecticut, crime, crime and punishment, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, District Attorney, Dow Hover, drugs, Durable Mike, Dutch Anderson, Dutch Schultz, Eddie Lee Mays, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, Elliott method, Elliott technique, entertainment, Erie County, Erie County Sheriff, Ethel Rosenberg, executed, executiioner, execution, Fonthill Media, Frank Abbandando, Frederick Tenuto, Friendly Bar and Grill, Friendly Tavern, gallows, gangs, gangsters, George Anderson, George Knight, George Westinghouse, Georgia, Gerald Chapman, Germantown, Governor Rockefeller, Governor Thomas Dewey, Grace Brown, Grover Cleveland, hanged, hanging, Happy Maione, Harlem, Harold P Brown, Harry Greenburg, Harry Maione, Helen Ray Fowler, Herkimer County, History, hitman, hitmen, Holmesburg Prison, Iron Mike, Iron Mike Malloy, Italy, jerk-em-up, Joe Masseria, John Dillinger, John Hurlburt, Joseph Francel, Judge Irwin Davidson, Julius Rosenberg, Kid Twist, last meal, Leon Czolgosz, Leonard Street robbery, Lepke, Lepke Buchalter, Lewis Lawes, Lewis Pilcher, literature, Lonely Hearts Killers, Lord High Executioner, Louis Buchalter, Louis Capone, Louis Lepke, Lucky Luciano, Mafia, Martha Beck, Martha Place, Mary Farmer, Massachusetts, Max Rubin, Mendy Weiss, Midnight Rose, morphine, Mr Arsenic, murder, Murder Inc, Murder Incorporated, Murder Trust, murdered, New Jersey, New York, New Yorkers, old sparky, Oreste Shillitoni, Palace Chop House, paper box kid, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Phil, President Calvin Coolidge, President Coolidge, President Grover Cleveland, President William McKinley, prison, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, Prohibition, Public Enemy Number One, punishment, Queens, Ray Fernandez, Raymond Fernandez, Raymond Street Jail, robberies, robbery, Robert Buchanan, Robert Greene Elliott, Roxalana Druse, Ruth Snyder, Salvatore Maranzano, Sing Sing, Sing Sing Prison, slaughter house, Slick Willie, State Electrician, suspension hanging, Syndicate, the Commission, The Dasher, the Rosenbergs, the Syndicate, The Tombs, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Edison, Thomas Mott Osborne, Tom Dewey, Tombs Jail, true crime, upright jerker, US Supreme Court, USA, Vermont, Virgil Richardson, Vito Genovese, Warden Kirchwey, Wethersfield, Wethersfield Prison, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler, William Long, William Snyder -
On This Day in 1958: Virgil Richardson, cop killer and Sing Sing’s 600th electrocution.
The chances are that former clerk Virgil Richardson isn’t a familiar name today. To NYPD officers in 1956 (and especially the family of Patrolman William Long) his name was all too familiar. Virgil Richardson was Patrolman Long’s murderer and later the 600th convict to sit in Sing Sing’s electric chair. Only fourteen more would follow…
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1944, Abe Reles, Albert Anastasia, Amos Squire, Angel of Death, Anna Antonio, appeal, appealed, appeals, armed robberies, armed robbery, assassin, assassinated, assassination, Atlanat, Atlanta, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Attica, Auburn Prison, Baby Face Nelson, bank robbery, Ben Hnace, Big Greenie, Big Moose Lake, books, bootleggers, bottlegging, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Combination, Brownsville, Buffalo, Bugsy Siegel, Burton Turkus, capital punishment, carbon monoxide, Carlyle Harris, Charlie the Bug Workman, Chester Gillette, clemency, clemency denied, Condemned Cells, Connecticut, crime, crime and punishment, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, District Attorney, Dow Hover, drugs, Durable Mike, Dutch Anderson, Dutch Schultz, Eddie Lee Mays, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, Elliott method, Elliott technique, entertainment, Erie County, Erie County Sheriff, Ethel Rosenberg, executed, executiioner, execution, Fonthill Media, Frank Abbandando, Frederick Tenuto, Friendly Bar and Grill, Friendly Tavern, gallows, gangs, gangsters, George Anderson, George Knight, George Westinghouse, Georgia, Gerald Chapman, Germantown, Governor Rockefeller, Governor Thomas Dewey, Grace Brown, Grover Cleveland, hanged, hanging, Happy Maione, Harlem, Harold P Brown, Harry Greenburg, Harry Maione, Helen Ray Fowler, Herkimer County, History, hitman, hitmen, Holmesburg Prison, Iron Mike, Iron Mike Malloy, Italy, jerk-em-up, Joe Masseria, John Dillinger, John Hurlburt, Joseph Francel, Judge Irwin Davidson, Julius Rosenberg, Kid Twist, last meal, Leon Czolgosz, Leonard Street robbery, Lepke, Lepke Buchalter, Lewis Lawes, Lewis Pilcher, literature, Lonely Hearts Killers, Lord High Executioner, Louis Buchalter, Louis Capone, Louis Lepke, Lucky Luciano, Mafia, Martha Beck, Martha Place, Mary Farmer, Massachusetts, Max Rubin, Mendy Weiss, Midnight Rose, morphine, Mr Arsenic, murder, Murder Inc, Murder Incorporated, Murder Trust, murdered, New Jersey, New York, New Yorkers, old sparky, Oreste Shillitoni, Palace Chop House, paper box kid, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Phil, President Calvin Coolidge, President Coolidge, President Grover Cleveland, President William McKinley, prison, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, Prohibition, Public Enemy Number One, punishment, Queens, Ray Fernandez, Raymond Fernandez, Raymond Street Jail, robberies, robbery, Robert Buchanan, Robert Greene Elliott, Roxalana Druse, Ruth Snyder, Salvatore Maranzano, Sing Sing, Sing Sing Prison, slaughter house, Slick Willie, State Electrician, suspension hanging, Syndicate, the Commission, The Dasher, the Rosenbergs, the Syndicate, The Tombs, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Edison, Thomas Mott Osborne, Tom Dewey, Tombs Jail, true crime, upright jerker, US Supreme Court, USA, Vermont, Virgil Richardson, Vito Genovese, Warden Kirchwey, Wethersfield, Wethersfield Prison, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler, William Long, William Snyder, Willie Sutton -
On This Day in 1944, Helen Ray Fowler and George Knight.
Neither is likely to be familiar, especially murderer George Knight. Had Knight alone been condemned for the murder and robbery of William Fowler on 30 October 1943 neither would have been even a footnote in history. Helen Fowler would have disappeared into New York State’s penal system and obscurity. George Knight would probably have vanished…
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1944, Abe Reles, Albert Anastasia, Amos Squire, Angel of Death, Anna Antonio, appeal, appealed, appeals, armed robberies, armed robbery, assassin, assassinated, assassination, Atlanat, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Attica, Auburn Prison, Baby Face Nelson, bank robbery, Ben Hnace, Big Greenie, Big Moose Lake, books, bootleggers, bottlegging, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Combination, Brownsville, Buffalo, Bugsy Siegel, Burton Turkus, capital punishment, carbon monoxide, Carlyle Harris, Charlie the Bug Workman, Chester Gillette, clemency, clemency denied, Condemned Cells, Connecticut, crime, crime and punishment, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, District Attorney, Dow Hover, drugs, Durable Mike, Dutch Anderson, Dutch Schultz, Eddie Lee Mays, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, Elliott method, Elliott technique, entertainment, Erie County, Erie County Sheriff, Ethel Rosenberg, executed, executiioner, execution, Fonthill Media, Frank Abbandando, Frederick Tenuto, Friendly Bar and Grill, Friendly Tavern, gallows, gangs, gangsters, George Anderson, George Knight, George Westinghouse, Georgia, Gerald Chapman, Germantown, Governor Rockefeller, Governor Thomas Dewey, Grace Brown, Grover Cleveland, hanged, hanging, Happy Maione, Harlem, Harold P Brown, Harry Greenburg, Harry Maione, Helen Ray Fowler, Herkimer County, History, hitman, hitmen, Holmesburg Prison, Iron Mike, Iron Mike Malloy, Italy, jerk-em-up, Joe Masseria, John Dillinger, John Hurlburt, Joseph Francel, Judge Irwin Davidson, Julius Rosenberg, Kid Twist, last meal, Leon Czolgosz, Leonard Street robbery, Lepke, Lepke Buchalter, Lewis Lawes, Lewis Pilcher, literature, Lonely Hearts Killers, Lord High Executioner, Louis Buchalter, Louis Capone, Louis Lepke, Lucky Luciano, Mafia, Martha Beck, Martha Place, Mary Farmer, Massachusetts, Max Rubin, Mendy Weiss, Midnight Rose, morphine, Mr Arsenic, murder, Murder Inc, Murder Incorporated, Murder Trust, murdered, New Jersey, New York, New Yorkers, old sparky, Oreste Shillitoni, Palace Chop House, paper box kid, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Phil, President Calvin Coolidge, President Coolidge, President Grover Cleveland, President William McKinley, prison, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, Prohibition, Public Enemy Number One, punishment, Ray Fernandez, Raymond Fernandez, Raymond Street Jail, robberies, robbery, Robert Buchanan, Robert Greene Elliott, Roxalana Druse, Ruth Snyder, Salvatore Maranzano, Sing Sing, Sing Sing Prison, slaughter house, Slick Willie, State Electrician, suspension hanging, Syndicate, the Commission, The Dasher, the Rosenbergs, the Syndicate, The Tombs, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Edison, Thomas Mott Osborne, Tom Dewey, Tombs Jail, true crime, upright jerker, US Supreme Court, USA, Vermont, Vito Genovese, Warden Kirchwey, Wethersfield, Wethersfield Prison, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler, William Snyder, Willie Sutton -
On This Day in 1941, Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles does the Half-Moon Hop.
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 custody preparing to turn…
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Abe Reles, Albert Anastasia, Amos Squire, Angel of Death, Anna Antonio, appeal, appealed, appeals, armed robberies, armed robbery, assassin, assassinated, assassination, Atlanat, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Attica, Auburn Prison, Baby Face Nelson, bank robbery, Ben Hnace, Big Greenie, Big Moose Lake, books, bootleggers, bottlegging, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Combination, Brownsville, Buffalo, Bugsy Siegel, Burton Turkus, capital punishment, carbon monoxide, Carlyle Harris, Charlie the Bug Workman, Chester Gillette, clemency, Condemned Cells, Connecticut, crime, crime and punishment, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, District Attorney, Dow Hover, drugs, Durable Mike, Dutch Anderson, Dutch Schultz, Eddie Lee Mays, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, Elliott method, Elliott technique, entertainment, Erie County, Erie County Sheriff, Ethel Rosenberg, executed, executiioner, execution, Fonthill Media, Frank Abbandando, Frederick Tenuto, Friendly Bar and Grill, Friendly Tavern, gallows, gangs, gangsters, George Anderson, George Westinghouse, Georgia, Gerald Chapman, Germantown, Governor Rockefeller, Governor Thomas Dewey, Grace Brown, Grover Cleveland, hanged, hanging, Happy Maione, Harlem, Harold P Brown, Harry Greenburg, Harry Maione, Helen Ray Fowler, Herkimer County, History, hitman, hitmen, Holmesburg Prison, Iron Mike, Iron Mike Malloy, Italy, jerk-em-up, Joe Masseria, John Dillinger, John Hurlburt, Joseph Francel, Judge Irwin Davidson, Julius Rosenberg, Kid Twist, last meal, Leon Czolgosz, Leonard Street robbery, Lepke, Lepke Buchalter, Lewis Lawes, Lewis Pilcher, literature, Lonely Hearts Killers, Lord High Executioner, Louis Buchalter, Louis Capone, Louis Lepke, Lucky Luciano, Mafia, Martha Beck, Martha Place, Mary Farmer, Massachusetts, Max Rubin, Mendy Weiss, Midnight Rose, morphine, Mr Arsenic, murder, Murder Inc, Murder Incorporated, Murder Trust, murdered, New Jersey, New York, New Yorkers, old sparky, Oreste Shillitoni, Palace Chop House, paper box kid, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Phil, President Calvin Coolidge, President Coolidge, President Grover Cleveland, President William McKinley, prison, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, Prohibition, Public Enemy Number One, punishment, Ray Fernandez, Raymond Fernandez, Raymond Street Jail, robberies, robbery, Robert Buchanan, Robert Greene Elliott, Roxalana Druse, Ruth Snyder, Salvatore Maranzano, Sing Sing, Sing Sing Prison, slaughter house, Slick Willie, State Electrician, suspension hanging, Syndicate, the Commission, The Dasher, the Rosenbergs, the Syndicate, The Tombs, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Edison, Thomas Mott Osborne, Tombs Jail, true crime, upright jerker, US Supreme Court, USA, Vermont, Vito Genovese, Warden Kirchwey, Wethersfield, Wethersfield Prison, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler, Willie Sutton -
On This Day in 1980: Willie ‘The Actor’ Sutton, Master Bank Robber, Dies.
Sutton, one of America’s most successful bank robbers, also ranked as one of its most remarkable. The robber of over 100 banks and taking at least a million dollars, Sutton did it without ever firing a shot. While robbers like John Dillinger would kill whenever they thought necessary and ‘Baby Face’ Nelson killed for the…
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Abe Reles, Albert Anastasia, Amos Squire, Angel of Death, Anna Antonio, appeal, appealed, appeals, armed robberies, armed robbery, assassin, assassinated, assassination, Atlanat, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Attica, Auburn Prison, Baby Face Nelson, bank robbery, Ben Hnace, Big Greenie, Big Moose Lake, books, bootleggers, bottlegging, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Combination, Brownsville, Buffalo, Bugsy Siegel, Burton Turkus, capital punishment, carbon monoxide, Carlyle Harris, Charlie the Bug Workman, Chester Gillette, clemency, Condemned Cells, Connecticut, crime, crime and punishment, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, District Attorney, Dow Hover, drugs, Durable Mike, Dutch Anderson, Dutch Schultz, Eddie Lee Mays, Edwin Davis, electric chair, electrocuted, Elliott method, Elliott technique, entertainment, Erie County, Erie County Sheriff, Ethel Rosenberg, executed, executiioner, execution, Fonthill Media, Frank Abbandando, Frederick Tenuto, Friendly Bar and Grill, Friendly Tavern, gallows, gangs, gangsters, George Anderson, George Westinghouse, Georgia, Gerald Chapman, Germantown, Governor Rockefeller, Governor Thomas Dewey, Grace Brown, Grover Cleveland, hanged, hanging, Happy Maione, Harlem, Harold P Brown, Harry Greenburg, Harry Maione, Helen Ray Fowler, Herkimer County, History, hitman, hitmen, Holmesburg Prison, Iron Mike, Iron Mike Malloy, Italy, jerk-em-up, Joe Masseria, John Dillinger, John Hurlburt, Joseph Francel, Judge Irwin Davidson, Julius Rosenberg, Kid Twist, last meal, Leon Czolgosz, Leonard Street robbery, Lepke, Lepke Buchalter, Lewis Lawes, Lewis Pilcher, literature, Lonely Hearts Killers, Lord High Executioner, Louis Buchalter, Louis Capone, Louis Lepke, Lucky Luciano, Mafia, Martha Beck, Martha Place, Mary Farmer, Massachusetts, Max Rubin, Mendy Weiss, Midnight Rose, morphine, Mr Arsenic, murder, Murder Inc, Murder Incorporated, Murder Trust, murdered, New Jersey, New York, New Yorkers, old sparky, Oreste Shillitoni, Palace Chop House, paper box kid, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Phil, President Calvin Coolidge, President Coolidge, President Grover Cleveland, President William McKinley, prison, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, Prohibition, Public Enemy Number One, punishment, Ray Fernandez, Raymond Fernandez, Raymond Street Jail, robberies, robbery, Robert Buchanan, Robert Greene Elliott, Roxalana Druse, Ruth Snyder, Salvatore Maranzano, Sing Sing, Sing Sing Prison, slaughter house, Slick Willie, State Electrician, suspension hanging, Syndicate, the Commission, The Dasher, the Rosenbergs, the Syndicate, The Tombs, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Dewey, Thomas Edison, Thomas Mott Osborne, Tombs Jail, true crime, upright jerker, US Supreme Court, USA, Vermont, Vito Genovese, Warden Kirchwey, Wethersfield, Wethersfield Prison, Wilfred Denno, William Kemmler, Willie Sutton, Willie the Actor -
On This Day in 1934; Alcatraz officially opens.
b “We are looking forward to great things from Alcatraz.” – Attorney-General Homer Cummings at the official opening in 1934. “Alcatraz was never no good for nobody.” – Convict Frank Weatherman, Number AZ1576, the last convict admitted to The Rock, on its closure in 1963. Alcatraz is 85 years old today. At least it’s 85…
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On True Crime Writing.
True crime is one of the fastest-growing genres for writers today and it polarises opinion among readers and writers alike. Many consider it a genuinely useful genre that, tastefully and intelligently written, can contribute to greater understanding of criminals, their crimes and their motives. There are also those, especially of the more ‘highbrow’ mindset, regarding…
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