Download or read book Historic Indianapolis Crimes written by Fred D. Cavinder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1954 “Dresser Drawer Murder” to the mass killing of seven people in 2006, the author of Forgotten Hoosiers chronicles Indianapolis’s dark history. Hear tales from the Circle City’s murderous underbelly, from poor Silvia Likens, who was tortured for months by her foster mother and eventually discovered dead, to Carrie Selvage, whose skeleton was found in an attic twenty years after she disappeared from a hospital bed in 1900. Discover how housekeepers found Dorothy Poore stuffed in a dresser drawer on a July day in 1954 and the curious story of Marjorie Jackson, her body was discovered clothed in pajama bottoms and a flannel robe on her kitchen floor, and police found $5 million hidden around her house in garbage cans, drawers, closets, toolboxes and a vacuum cleaner bag. Join local historian Fred Cavinder as he recounts the gruesome tales of Indiana’s capital city, from mystery to murder. Includes photos!
Download or read book Historic Indianapolis Crimes written by Fred D. Cavinder and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder Mayhem in Indiana written by Keven McQueen and published by Murder & Mayhem. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes various historical murder cases from Indiana history ranging from the late 19th century to the 1930s. The cases include solved and unsolved crimes, along with social insight into the times in which they were committed"--
Download or read book The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana written by Julie Young and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. “What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today.” —Fox59 The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant for the following day. But then something went horribly wrong. Just before midnight, someone muscled into the place, robbed the store of $581 and kidnapped the four employees. Over the next two days, investigators searched in vain for the missing crewmembers before their bodies were discovered more than twenty miles away. The killer or killers were never caught. Join Julie Young on an exploration of one of the most baffling cold cases in Indiana history. “Young doesn’t try to solve the murders. Instead, her goal is to make sure no one forgets the victims.” —IndyStar
Download or read book True Crime in the Circle City written by Patrick R. Pearsey and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to highlight some of the most bizarre and famous cases that the Indianapolis Police Department has investigated. This quiet city at the Crossroads of America had an assortment of strange and dangerous characters pass through it in the 20th century. Among them were "Blondie", who enjoyed torturing her victims while singing love songs to her boyfriend. "Ted" Carr, a psychopath who experienced "Instant Karma" while murdering his last victims. WWI veteran Howard Ellis, who brought his own war to Indianapolis and single handedly shot nine police officers holding off 200 more. In 1943, WAC Corporal Maoma Ridings, who had been FDR's favorite nurse, comes to the Claypool Hotel for a weekend of fun and finds death. Even a gang leader who rightfully earned the name "The King of the Ghouls" by robbing hundreds of graves of the freshly buried. This book lets the reader take a peek into the Indianapolis Police case book and see the steps taken by its detectives to track down and apprehend the suspects in these cases. Internal documents and photographs from the police archives and other sources are presented here for the first time. - Patrick Pearsey, Police Archivist
Download or read book The Notorious Mrs Clem written by Wendy Gamber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. Suspicion for both deaths turned to Nancy Clem, a housewife who was also one of Mr. Young's former business partners. Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme.
Download or read book Crimes in Southern Indiana written by Frank Bill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Frank Bill's Southern Indiana is haunted by a deep, abiding sense of place, and his people are men and women pressed to the brink - and beyond. They are survivors, and in Frank Bill's hands, their stories bristle with noir energy.
Download or read book Notorious 92 written by Andrew E. Stoner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoosiers witness their share of human darkness. Stoner delves into this dark side with a look at the most heinous murders that have taken place in each of Indiana's 92 counties.
Download or read book No Place Like Murder written by Janis Thornton and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night. An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.
Download or read book A Senseless Murder and the Indianapolis Police Department written by Tommy Sickels and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Senseless Murder and the Indianapolis Police Department By: Tommy Sickels On August 14, 1988, a police officer was murdered, sparking the worst criminal case in Indianapolis’ history, bar none. That day, Fred Sanders murdered Officer Matt Faber by shooting him in the back, and ultimately got to walk away with a slap on the wrist—spending just three years in jail without ever entering a prison. While Sanders pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a jury nevertheless awarded him 1.5 million dollars in compensatory damages. A month later, the federal judge vacated the jury’s verdict, but justice was never truly served. In this book, the slain officer’s supervisor tells the story of Faber’s murder and the case, as well as an explanation of the Indianapolis Police Department’s structure, history, and daily operations.
Download or read book No Place Like Murder written by Janis Thornton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its best. I couldn’t put it down.” —Susan Furlong, author of the Bone Gap Travellers novels A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators’ mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song “Frankie and Johnny” already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton’s tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed “Gun Girl” and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn’t meet until their fateful last night. An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers. “Thornton wittily describes heretofore unheralded true crime stories from Indiana’s small towns.” —Keven McQueen, author of Horror in the Heartland
Download or read book Sylvia Likens s Story written by Daryl Downham and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965 a sixteen-year-old girl in Indianapolis, Indiana, named Sylvia Likens was mercilessly tortured over the course of three months by the woman being paid to look after her. The torture resulted in an agonizing death for the girl and the woman responsible for the unconscionable misery was Gertrude Baniszewski. Shockingly, there were many participants in the abhorrent acts of cruelty and many witnesses to various signs of abuse and neglect, yet no one championed the welfare of the young girl and she was left to die alone in the dark basement in unspeakable condition. The author compiles the numerous witness accounts including observations on record from her school, her church, police, and welfare reports into a single organized smooth-flowing narrative that, while difficult to read given the nature of the subject, is an important and succinct accounting of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse uncovered in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Indianapolis Graverobbing written by Chris Flook and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the sensational newspaper accounts as events unfolded, author and historian Chris Flook recounts this grisly tale of political intrigue and conspiracy. In the fall of 1902, Indianapolis police uncovered a prolific graverobbing ring operating across the city. At the time, cemeteries across central Indiana were relieved of their dead by ghouls, as they were called, seeking fresh corpses desperately needed by the city's medical colleges. The ring was also accused of multiple murders. In Hamilton County, a former Confederate soldier named Wade West delivered stolen corpses by floating them down the White River. His counterpart in Indianapolis, Rufus Cantrell, an itinerant preacher and full-time graverobber known as the "King of the Ghouls," ransacked Indy's cemeteries for years before being caught.
Download or read book Scavengers written by Dick Cady and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pursuit of Justice written by David J. Bodenhamer and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1986 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murders That Made Headlines written by Jane Simon Ammeson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating chronicle of murder in the Hoosier State paints a chilling portrait of the American Midwest from mid-19th century to the Jazz Age. In Murders that Made Headlines, Jane Simon Ammeson uncovers a grizzly history of crime in Indiana, offering a stark contrast to the nostalgic image of a simpler time in America’s heartland. While the Midwest saw many changes between the 1850s and the 1930s—from horses and buggies to Hudson sedans; ladies in long dresses to flappers in short skirts—the passions that led to murder remained the same. In this compendium of sensational and scandalous crimes, you will find tales of romantic jealousy, manic greed, racism, and family dysfunction—themes that remain all too familiar today. Ammeson recounts the astonishing and sometimes bizarre stories of arsenic murders, Ponzi schemes, prison escapes, perjury, and other shocking crimes that took place in the Hoosier state. These extraordinary true events once captured the public’s attention, only to be forgotten by time. But through extensive research into public records, genealogies, and even exhumed graves, Ammeson reveals the notorious true crimes lurking in our history.
Download or read book Love and Greed in the Heartland written by Robert L. Snow and published by Camino Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11:10 pm, November 10, 2012. What was meant to be a small fire mushroomed into a major explosion, destroyed or damaged more than 80 houses, killed two people, and ignited the largest homicide investigation in Indiana's history. Snow, a former police captain and Commander of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch, teams with McQuaid, an investigative reporter, to lay bare the details of the crime scene and track the case through the eventual prosecution of the defendants.
