Posted on September 2, 2014
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Crime, it’s a part of human existence. It’s in our culture, our art, our literature, our entertainment. For some of us it’s in our blood. It’s also crossed over into our language. Seemingly normal everyday phrases, the kind most people use without even thinking…
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Posted on August 29, 2014
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We’re back in Pennsylvania for our latest criminal curiosity. Irene Schroeder, AKA ‘Triiger Woman’, ‘The Blonde Bandit’, ‘Tiger Woman’ and ‘Iron Irene’, was the first woman to be electrocuted in Pennsylvania. Executioner Robert Elliott said that, of all the 387 convicts he executed, that…
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Posted on August 27, 2014
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.Public Executioner. It’s not what you’d call an everyday profession. Unusual? Certainly. Skilled? Absolutely. Dark and scary? Well, it depends on why you fancy the job, really. But it’s certainly not the sort of work that most people would consider a life’s ambition or…
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Category: True CrimeTags: Albert Pierrepoint, book, Britain, British, British Army, British military history, British politics, capital punishment, celebrity, condemned cell, crime, crime and punishment, crime of the century, cruel and unusual, death, death house, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, executed, execution, executioner, executions, fame, famous, gallows, Great Britain, hanged, hanging, hangman, History, Holloway, Holloway Prison, hypocrisy, John Amery, John Ellis, justice, law and order, miscarriage of justice, multiple murder, murder, murderer, Nazis, Pentonville, Pentonville Prison, pointless, Politics, pop culture, prison, Scotland Yard, Second World War, traitor, treachery, treason, true crime, UK, unconstitutional, United States, United States Army, unjust, US, US Army, USA, Wandsworth, Wandsworth Prison, War, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, wrongly convicted
Posted on August 23, 2014
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William Huddle Ledbetter. AKA ‘Lead Belly’, was one of the archetypal blues icons of the Deep South. He wasn’t from Mississippi or Chicago, unlike so many contemporaries, but he still had a prodigious appetite for music and the talent to match. His fondness for…
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Posted on August 19, 2014
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Meet Paul Poluszynski, alias ‘Paul Jawarski’, known throughout Pennsylvania as ‘The Phantom.’ Before the end of his extremely violent (and, some might say, mercifully brief) criminal career he claimed to have killed twenty-six people including four police officers and a payroll security guard. His…
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Posted on August 18, 2014
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So, as you’re no doubt aware, I have an interest in true crime and I ted to cover the more unusual bits and pieces. If you’re interested in the subject generally then it’s hard to avoid the plethora of websites and blogs out there…
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Posted on November 19, 2013
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This is Joseph Paul Franklin. He’s reportedly confessed to 22 murders, at least 16 bank robberies, several non-fatal shootings and a number of other crimes. Most famously, Franklin was the man who shot porn magnate Larry Flynt (leaving him permanently paralysed) and civil rights…
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Category: True CrimeTags: Adolf Hitler, anti-semitism, bigotry, capital punishment, death penalty, death sentence, execution, hate crime, Hustler, Indiana, Joseph Paul Franklin, Larry Flynt, lethal injection, Missouri, multiple murder, murder, murderer, porn, pornography, racism, racist, serial killer, shot, true crime, Vernon Jordan
