Download or read book Murder State written by Brendan C. Lindsay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy—in this case mob rule—through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants’ experiences on the overland trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers’ quest for land. The allegedly “violent nature” of Native people was often merely their reaction to the atrocities committed against them as they were driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from their traditional resources. In this narrative history employing numerous primary sources and the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on genocide, Brendan C. Lindsay examines the darker side of California history, one that is rarely studied in detail, and the motives of both Native Americans and Euro-Americans at the time. Murder State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide.

Download or read book Swift Justice written by Harry Farrell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed in a starred Kirkus Review as "one of the most riveting, revealing, and intensely readable true crimers to appear in a long time", Swift Justice is Harry Farrell's unforgettable story of the mob violence that paralyzed the town of San Jose in 1933. Farrell reconstructs the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart and the lynching of his accused murderers days later. 8 pages of photos.

Download or read book A Death in California written by Joan Barthel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled Los Angeles socialite is both terrorized and tempted by a killer in this “brilliantly written” true story by the author of A Death in Canaan (Ann Rule). Hope Masters lived in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Beverly Hills—but was entitled to food stamps. Pretty, petite, and privileged, she was recovering from two failed marriages and a string of poor decisions. But when Hope met and fell in love with a handsome advertising executive, she believed her life was finally back on track—until the morning she woke up to find the barrel of a gun in her mouth. Hope’s fiancé lay dead in the next room. His killer was a new acquaintance who’d been visiting the couple in a remote ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. He claimed to be a journalist, but his real identity was as mysterious as his motivations. Even more bizarre, however, was what happened at the end of the long, nightmarish weekend in which Hope saw everything she cared about destroyed: She began to fall in love with her tormenter. A fascinating and frightening portrait of the power of evil to lead the most innocent of victims down the darkest of paths, A Death in California is “a first-rate piece of reporting” (Kirkus Reviews) on “one of the strangest cases in the annals of American crime” (The New York Times).

Download or read book Mass Murder in California s Empty Quarter written by Ray A. March and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray A. March exposes a story of mass murder, a community's racism, and tribal treachery in a small Paiute tribe.

Download or read book A Death in California written by Joan Barthel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catch Me If You Can written by Kraig Hanadel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalistic account of the actual investigation and conviction of Dana Ewell, a son of wealth and privilege who killed his family for money - the 1992 murders of Dale, Glee, and Tiffany Ewell in Sacramento, California with the cooperation of the two detectives who broke the case.

Download or read book Murder in California Rage and Revenge Murders written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders profiles some of California’s most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime. The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location’s unique significance. California has been the site for many notorious homicides. The following are portrayed in this edition: South of the Border Escapade Funded By A Murder Victim’s Credit Card McDonald’s San Ysidro Restaurant Massacre Site: Artie and Jim Mitchell: Contemporary Cain and Abel Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten’s killing and perpetrator suicide Ewell Family Killings: Delayed gratification thwarts a near perfect killing John Morency: A Vindictive Collapse To An Illusionary Refinement Laci Peterson: When motive convicts beyond the body of evidence Lyle and Erik Menendez: The sins of the son’s bury their parents The Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman Murders: An American travesty The Marin County barbeque murders A convincing performance behind the killing of Bonnie Lee Bakley Vincent Brothers: The convicting insects on the radiator An Illusionary Friendship That Stimulated an Embezzlement Murder A Bondage Murder With An Unconsensual Victim A Gunfight That Ultimately Becomes A Supreme Court Precedent Diane Whipple: Defining accountability with vicious pet owners Eastside Salinas: An invisible war Rages streetside Slaying of Ennis Cosby on an isolated freeway off ramp Father Eric Freed’s Brutal Slaying: A Lost Coast of fractured souls The Silent and Senseless Murder of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen Haing Ngor: An extended and consequential journey curtailed by a random killing Huey P. Newton: A tarnished messenger with feet of clay Johnny Stompanato: Lana Turner’s fatal attraction Barbara Graham: An unsympathetic film portrayal Marvin Gaye: A visionary dishonored within his household Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett: The Greystone Mansion murder-suicide The Unexplainable Orcutt freeway sniper attack Phil Hartman: The shocking murder-suicide from an unanticipated source Phil Spector: The Crumbling legacy of a musical genius Ramon Novarro: The gruesome torture of a closeted screen idol Ronni Chasen Shooting: When two divergent worlds collided Sal Mineo: A career comeback curtailed The Abrupt departure of Soul Music legend Sam Cooke in his prime Ryan Jenkins: Jealousy Consumes A Reality Television Contestant A Convicted Killer Finds Conjugal Affection But Never Release The Covina Christmas Eve massacre by a Santa impersonator Edward Allaway: The questionable case for cured insanity Mel and Elizabeth Grimes: The consequences behind a one-ton stone The Helzer Brothers: Children of Thunder slayings The disintegrating mind and schoolyard entrance massacre by Brenda Spencer Dr. Victor Ohta: The execution and incendiary of the house on the hill The vindictive rampage of Elliot Rodger The Golden Dragon massacre: The gang who didn’t shoot straight Lynwood Jim Drake: A loose wire springs a rampage Marcus Wesson: The cult and tragic murder consequence traced to family abuse Scott Dekraai: Revenge for a punitive divorce settlement Holzer Family stabbing spree: Spiraling out of control mental illness The Oikos University Massacre: Piecing together a disjointed puzzle San Diego State Engineering graduate student’s rage against his perceived academic tormentors Santana High School: Adolescence angst with a gunfire solution A Synagogue Shooting By A Self-Deluded Solider

Download or read book Murder in California Serial Killers and Famous Unsolved Murders written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders profiles some of California’s most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime. Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided. A directory of precise crime site locations is included. The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location’s unique significance. California has been the site for many notorious serial killers. The following are portrayed in this edition: Zodiac Serial Killer: Public and media taunting Charles Manson’s serial killing clan Dorothea Puente: The elderly and frail targeted and eliminated for profit Efren Saldivar: Caregiving medical homicide The Unabomber: His UC Berkeley experience Zebra Killings: San Francisco’s racially targeted genocide Heaven’s Gate Cult mass suicide Edmund Kemper III: Monstrous hitchhiking murders Bittaker and Norris: Torture van murders Juan Corona: Migrant workers serial killer Richard Trenton Chase: The vampire killer The Speed Freak Killers and their burial bone yards Herbert Mullin: Killing for earthquake preventiveness David Carpenter: The devil behind bifocals and a stutter Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple Massacre: Lost in a jungle mass suicide The Hillside Strangler Duo: Killing Cousins Rodney Alcala: A beastly killing machine slaying beauty Richard Ramirez: Satan’s ambassador Golden State Killer: The triumph of forensic tracking A Black Hand of Death and Inhumanity (Jose Manuel Martinez) A Killing Rampage Preying On Society’s Most Vulnerable Population (Jon David Guerrero) The Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murders: preying on the innocent David Nadel: The death of a man and rebirth of a performance icon Torrey Pines Beach: Sands, Secrets and A Butterfly Dancer The continued fascination with the Black Dahlia Murder Fatty Arbuckle’s sex and homicide scandal A Classic Mob Contract Killing Of An Unwanted Distraction Was a 1963 beachfront slaying a prelude to future Zodiac terror? Geneva Ellroy: The transference of tragedy into literary expression A Double Tragedy Complicated By Mysterious Scenarios (Spreckels Mansion Death) Kym Morgan: Death by classified advertisement Kevin Collins: A solitary bus bench memorial to every parent’s nightmare Unauthorized Celebrity Biography Comics and A Founder’s Murder (Todd Lawrence) Ted Healy: The suspected homicide of the fourth Stooge The Resolute Will to keep William Desmond Taylor’s murder unsolved A Contract Killer Terminated By His Own Profession (Frank Bompensiero) Ramona Irene Price strolls innocently into a vanished past Raymond Washington: A cycle of senseless violence devours the Crips gang founder The Senseless Murder of a Catholic Priest on Holiday (Monsignor Louis Gutierrez)

Download or read book Almost Eleven written by Harrell Glenn Crowson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost Eleven is the documentation of the January 7, 1965 abduction, rape and murder of ten year-old Brenda Sue Sayers in the small town of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley’s biggest crime is detailed through volumes of official records and interviews with witnesses, relatives and investigators. Serial killer Robert Eugene Pennington not only murdered Sayers, but was a suspect in killing Dorothy Minor-Hindman in Fresno and possibly fifteen other innocent victims from coast to coast including one victim attributed to the Boston Strangler. Extensive research provides the reader with details of Pennington’s life before and after his encounter with Brenda.

Download or read book Not Just Evil written by David Wilson and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, a schoolgirl’s murder leads to a Hollywood manhunt, a bizarre confession, and a landmark trial in this historical true crime. Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. The killer dropped her off a few days later, fleeing with the ransom money before Marion’s father discovered she had been brutally murdered. When William Edward Hickman was hunted down and charged with the killing, he admitted to all of it, in terrifying detail, but that was only the start. Hickman’s insanity plea was the first of its kind in California, and it led to a national media frenzy. His lawyers argued that their client lived in a fantasy world, inspired by movies and unable to tell right from wrong. In a year when the first talking picture had just been released, the movie industry scrambled to protect itself from ruinous publicity. As scandals threatened the proceedings from the start, the death of a young girl grew into a referendum on the state of America at the birth of mass media culture. Author and private investigator David Wilson captures the maelstrom surrounding Marion Parker’s death in vivid detail. From the crime itself to the manhunt that followed, the unprecedented trial, and its dramatic aftermath, Wilson draws readers into this fascinating true account of the birth of the celebrity criminal.

Download or read book Murder in California written by Marques Vickers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder in California" profiles some of California's most infamous serial killers and unsolved murder cases. The edition more photographically transports you to several of the murder sites where the homicides occurred and/or images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and profiles offer a descriptive account, detailed location, and trial aftermath providing an important understanding into the further reaching effects of each crime. Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided.The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. California has been the site for many notorious serial killers. The following are portrayed in this edition: The Zodiac: The Taunting KillerCharles Manson: Removing the Myths Behind an Iconic Serial KillerDorothea Puente: Arsenic and Old Lace: Killing for ProfitEfren Saldivar's Definition of Assisted Medical HomicideTed Kaczynski (Unabomber): To Arms Against A Faceless Society and EnemyThe Zebra Killings: A Racially Intended Genocide?The Heaven's Gate Cult Shutters Operations Abruptly and PermanentlyEdmund Kemper III: Constructing the Perfect FrankensteinLawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris: Pitch Darkened HeartsJuan Corona: The Macabre Massacre of the InvisibleRichard Trenton Chase: The Consummation of DarknessThe Boneyards of the Dead Speak: The Speed Freak KillersHerbert Mullin: The Blood Sacrifices of Earthquake PreventivenessDavid Carpenter: The Devil Behind Bifocals and a StutterJim Jones and the Peoples Temple Massacre: No Way HomeThe Hillside Strangler Duo: Killing CousinsRodney Alcala: A Beastly Killing Machine Slaying BeautyRichard Ramirez: The Devil's AmbassadorGolden State Killer: The Triumph of Forensic EvidenceThe section on famous unsolved murders include: The Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murders: Preying on the InnocentDavid Nadel: The Death of a Man and Rebirth of a Performance IconThe Continued Fascination With the Black Dahlia MurderRoscoe Fatty Arbuckle: Ten-Minute Disputed Sex ScandalWas a 1963 Beachfront Slaying of a High School Couple a Prelude to Future Terror?Geneva Ellroy: The Transference of Tragedy Into Literary ExpressionKym Morgan: Death By Classified AdvertisementKevin Collins: A Solitary Bus Bench Memorial to Every Parent's NightmareTed Healy: The Suspected Homicide of the Fourth StoogeThe Resolute Will To Keep William Desmond Taylor's Murder UnsolvedRamona Irene Price Strolls Innocently Into A Vanished PastRaymond Washington: A Cycle of Senseless Violence Devours A Former FounderAuthor Marques Vickers' own introduction into the expansive consequences of murder began with the 1968 killings of David Faraday and Betty Lou Jenson by the Zodiac killer in the author's hometown. Faraday was an acquaintance of the author and his older sister knew both victims. His reflections on the trauma inflicted on his intimate suburban community correspond with the realization that a single homicide affects far more individuals than simply the victim. Hundreds and often thousands may be touched by the arbitrariness and unfairness of life being terminated abruptly and prematurely.

Download or read book Murder in California written by Marques Vickers and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders" profiles some of California's most infamous murder cases. The edition more photographically transports you to several of the murder sites where the homicides occurred and/or images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and profiles offer a descriptive account, detailed location, and trial aftermath providing an important understanding into the further reaching effects of each crime. Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided.The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. California has been the site for many notorious homicides. The following are portrayed in this edition: Artie and Jim Mitchell: Contemporary Cain and AbelThe Unfulfilled Crossover of Dorothy StrattenEwell Family Killings: Delayed Gratification Thwarts A Perfect KillingJohn Morency: As the Adulation Ceased, the Poisoning was AdministeredLaci Peterson: When Motive Convicts Beyond the Body of EvidenceLyle and Erik Menendez: The Sins of the Son's Bury Their FatherThe Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman Murders: An Over-Publicized American TravestyThe Marin County Barbeque MurdersA Convincing Performance Behind the Killing of Bonnie Lee BakleyVincent Brothers: The Convicting Insects on the RadiatorDiane Whipple: Defining Accountability With Vicious Pet OwnersEastside Salinas: An Invisible War Rages StreetsideThe Isolated Unexplainable Roadway Slaying of Ennis CosbyFather Eric Freed's Brutal Slaying: A Lost Coast of Fractured SoulsThe Silent and Senseless Murder of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason AllenHaing Ngor: An Extended and Consequential Journey Curtailed By A Random KillingHuey P. Newton: A Tarnished Messenger with Feet of ClayJohnny Stompanato: A Fatal AttractionBarbara Graham: An Unsympathetic Film PortrayalMarvin Gaye: A Visionary Dishonored Within His HouseholdNed Doheny and Hugh Plunkett: The Greystone Mansion KillingsThe Unexplainable Sunday Morning Sniper AttackPhil Hartman: The Shocking Murder and Suicide From An Unanticipated SourcePhil Spector: The Crumbling Legacy of a Musical GeniusRamon Novarro: The Gruesome Torture of a Closeted Screen IdolRonni Chasen: When Two Divergent Worlds CollideSal Mineo: A Career Comeback Suddenly CurtailedThe Abrupt Departure of a Soul Music Legend Sam Cooke In His PrimeRampageThe Covina Christmas Eve Massacre by a Santa ImpersonatorEdward Allaway: The Questionable Case For Cured InsanityMel and Elizabeth Grimes: The Consequences Behind a One-Ton StoneThe Helzer Brothers: Children of ThunderThe Disintegrating Mind and Schoolyard Entrance Massacre by Brenda SpencerDr. Victor Ohta: The Execution and Incendiary of the House on the HillThe Vindictive Rage of Elliot RodgerThe 1977 Golden Dragon Massacre: The Gang Who Didn't Shoot StraightLynwood Jim Drake: A Loose Wire Springs A RampageMarcus Wesson: The Cult and Tragic Murder Consequence Traced to Family AbuseScott Dekraai: The Mad Rampage and Excruciating Slow Justice and SentencingHolzer Family Stabbing Spree: Spiraling Out of Control Mental IllnessThe Oikos University Massacre: Piecing Together a Disjointed PuzzleSan Diego State Engineering Graduate Student's Rage Against His Perceived Academic TormentorsSantana High School: Adolescence Angst With A Gunfire SolutionCleveland Elementary School in Stockton: The Inevitable Slaughter of the Innocent

Download or read book Race And Homicide In Nineteenth Century California written by Clare V. McKanna and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common, and legal responses varied broadly. Available now for the first time in paperback, Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California examines coroners’ inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other primary and printed sources to analyze patterns of homicide and the state’s embryonic justice system. Author Clare V. McKanna discovers that the nature of crimes varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators and victims, as did the conduct and results of trials and sentencing patterns. He presents specific case studies and a vivid portrait of an unruly society in flux. Enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, this study richly portrays a frontier society where the law was neither omnipotent nor impartial.

Download or read book The Tule Marsh Murder written by Nancy Barr Mavity and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Aloysius "Peter" Piper, ace reporter for the Herald, is drawn into the mystery surrounding a woman found murdered in the marsh near El Cerrito, California. The body has been burned beyond recognition, but bears a striking similarity to Sheila (O'Shay) Ellsworth, the missing wife of millionaire Don Ellsworth. Also on the case is Dr. Cavanaugh, a famous psychiatrist who has made a hobby of analysis of the criminal mind and is a frequent consultant for the police and expert witness in murder trials. Bigamy, amnesia, and conspiracy all come into play before Peter stumbles into the shocking conclusion and uncovers the killer.

Download or read book Murder in Matheny written by Monty Sands and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, while working for the Tulare County Probation Department, assigned to the Tulare County Courthouse, I first ran across copies of transcripts of taped interviews with a murder suspect accused of murdering an ll year old girl. The case involved rape, sodomy, and brutal damage to the victim. The transcripts were captivating. Because of my duties, I couldn?t personally follow the trial which was still in progress, but I followed the case in the daily tabloids. Because of the length of the trials (and there was more than one) I eventually lost track of the proceedings until a conviction was finally rendered. It would take a decade and the ?Freedom of Information Act? before I gave thought to writing about April?s murder. The ?thought? would eventually give me reason to question my sanity. I had been doing research on April?s death for several months: death certificate, birth certificate, old newspaper articles, talking to old acquaintances at the Tulare County Sheriff?s Office. The work was interesting, but often tedious, boring labor. The process of compiling data is very impersonal and has no life of its own. Early in 2002, I decided to visit April?s grave at the Tulare District Cemetery, Tulare, California. I did my research prior to visiting the cemetery; April was located in the southeast section, marker 544. My daughter, Sheri, accompanied me for the purpose of photographing the site. We wandered around the approximate location with negative results, and decided to separate to cover more territory. After a short time, Sheri yelled out, ?Dad, her she is!? My knees almost buckled. I was shocked, what was going on? I didn?t move for a moment; it dawned on me slowly?April was no longer just an interesting story, set in black and white print, April was a person who had walked this earth. The steps I took towards the marker were small, and staggered. I looked down at the small marker bearing her name, pinched in tightly between two other headstones. APRIL HOLLEY-Apr. 24, 1977-Dec. 3, 1988 . You cannot etch in stone, ?Here lies a young child, taken early in her life by someone who decided she did not need to live any longer.? As I was getting ready to leave the cemetery, a couple of thoughts crossed my mind as I glanced down at the headstone one last time. On one side lay an uncle almost unknown to her, the other side a complete unknown. April would be forever alone. The second thought was a resolve to tell her story to the best of my limited ability.

Download or read book Little Girl Lost written by Joan Merriam and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding painful light on a brutal crime, the author explores the neglectful and abusive circumstances that brought young Shirley Katherine Wolf and Cindy Lee Collier to the edge and resulted in their stabbing murder of eighty-five-year-old Anna Brackett. Reissue.

Download or read book Wicked Jurupa Valley written by Kim Jarrell Johnson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a murder-prone mistress to a killing farm that inspired a Clint Eastwood movie, rural Southern California has secrets that belie its bucolic setting. The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders—a horrible 1928 national news story that inspired the 2008 movie The Changeling from director Clint Eastwood—are only the most infamous despicable deeds that have bloodstained the rural countryside between Riverside City and the San Bernardino County line. Jurupa Valley has been a region of dark doings and scandalous misdeeds for generations. The city of Jurupa Valley was formed in 2011 from the area’s smaller communities, including Wineville (renamed Mira Loma to escape the shame), Pedley and Rubidoux. Buried in its landscape are salacious sagas of unchecked bootlegging, payday orgies and gruesome murders. Author Kim Jarrell Johnson digs deep to disinter the unsavory stories that have traditionally marked her home city as a resting place of enduring infamy. Includes photos!