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• 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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• On This Day in 1851 – Josefa ‘Juanita’ Segovia, rough justice or legal lynching?

  

    Present-day California is often seen as the most liberal, tolerant state in the Union. It‘s sold with images of sunshine, surfing, and hippies; a relaxed, easy-going kind of place where, within reason, anything goes. This is a fallacy. While 1967 might have been California’s ‘Summer of Love’ July of 1851 wasn’t. Certainly not for…

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  July 5, 2020

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