Download or read book Murder Mayhem in Scott County Iowa written by John Brassard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous criminal history of Iowa’s oldest county takes center stage in this true crime account of murder, robbery, and mayhem. Scott County, Iowa has a rich and venerable history. It is where the Blackhawk Treaty was signed. It’s where the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River was built. But Scott County has a dark and history as well. Travel down Utica Ridge Road, where young Grace Reed paid the ultimate price for spurning the affections of a local farmer. Enter the bedroom of Margaretha Nehlsen, who poisoned her children with chocolate candies. Hear the tale of Harry Hamilton, a former policeman turned career criminal who played a key part in the most notorious bank robbery in Scott County history . . . Learn about these stories and more as Murder & Mayhem in Scott County, Iowa explores the darker side of this midwestern County and its shocking, unlawful history.
Download or read book Eerie Quad Cities written by Michael McCarty & John Brassard Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the mighty Mississippi River that cleaves the Quad Cities, the region's history can trap the unwary in some unexpected eddies. Peer through the fog of the past to catch a glimpse of the Tinsmith Ghost of Rock Island or the river serpent with a price on its head. Get the back story on the Banshee of Brady Street, read the 1869 report on a Bigfoot sighting near East Davenport and run the numbers on local UFO activity. From phantom footsteps in the Renwick Mansion to a mausoleum heist in Chippiannock Cemetery, Michael McCarty and John Brassard Jr. trace a path through the shadowy heritage of the Quad Cities. Show Less
Download or read book Murder and Mayhem in Dallas County written by Mike Flinn and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are from Dallas County, Iowa or even Iowa or even The Midwest and you love history, this book is for you. Dallas County is home to 87,235 souls and is fast becoming part of The Des Moines Metropoliton Area. But Dallas County has a rich history of its own, and not all of it relates to our agricultural roots. In this book you will find stories of robbery, murder, mayhem and a multitude of other foul deeds. The author's first book, "Most Exciting Day" tells the story of a bungling daylight bank robbery and shootout in the county seat town of Adel. That story, and many more, are included in this fascinating look at one Iowa county's more unruly past.
Download or read book Murder Madness and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier written by Nick Vulich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not the usual boring history read. It's a fast-paced, easy to read, behind the scenes look at the making of Iowa and Illinois focusing on Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Quad Cities written by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided by state lines and the Mississippi River, the Quad Cities share a common haunted heritage. If anything, the seam that runs through the region is especially rife with spirits, from the Black Angel of Moline's Riverside Cemetery to the spectral Confederate POWs of Arsenal Island. Of course, the city centers have their own illustrious supernatural residents--the Hanging Ghost occupies Davenport's City Hall, while the Phantom Washwoman wanders Bettendorf's Central Avenue. At Igor's Bistro in Rock Island, every day is Halloween. Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin hunt down the haunted lore of this vibrant midwestern community.
Download or read book Murder Mayhem in Ulster County written by A. J. Schenkman and published by Murder & Mayhem. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murders and other crimes in Ulster County, NY"--
Download or read book Murder Mayhem and Mischief in Josephine County written by Jean Boling and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder Mayhem in Cumberland County written by Joseph David Cress and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the horrific Enoch Brown Schoolhouse Massacre of 1764 to settlers who hunted local tribes for a bounty, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, has long had a violent and bloody history. As more people came to the region, murder and mischief of every kind only multiplied. Local author Joseph David Cress explores the dark side of history, from little-known cases such as that of Sarah Clark--who became the first woman hanged in the county after she poisoned a family to dispatch a romantic rival--to high-profile crimes like the shocking 1955 courtroom slaying that left one person dead and three injured. Join Cress on a hair-raising walk down Hell Street as he investigates the underbelly of Cumberland County.
Download or read book Murder Mayhem and Madness written by Michael Keene and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 true stories of murder in western New York
Download or read book The Iowa Murders written by Rod Kackley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone you know or even love is the person who will kill you. Usually, that's true. But that is not what happened in 2018 to two college students in Iowa. Two young women who had everything to live for, were killed by two men with nothing to lose. Completely random attacks. Neither case had anything else in common except they both shocked the nation and even the world. What's worse, being murdered by a loved one or a stranger who jumps out of the bushes when you are most vulnerable? Previously published as We'll Find You and Let's Do Murder, The Iowa Murders tells the shocking true crime stories of the senseless deaths of Mollie Tibbetts and Celia Barquin Arozamena. When Mollie Tibbetts disappeared on July 18, 2018, her mother, Laura Calderwood, promised she would never quit searching. For five weeks in the summer of 2018, she searched, and the whole world watched Brooklyn, Iowa because this was more than a murder story - it also became one of the top political stories of 2018. Then, just after her killer led police to Mollie's body, hidden in a cornfield, news of another shocking, senseless homicide came from Iowa. Celia Barquin Arozamena was ready to begin the next phase of her life, including a professional career and marriage. Collin Richards only wanted a woman to rape and murder. Celia had everything to live for, and Collin had nothing to lose. They would come together one day in September 2018. Only one would survive. The Iowa Murders is the shocking true crime story of two communities and two families coming to grips with the worst crime imaginable, knowing that even if the killer's put behind bars today, another could be waiting tomorrow. The Iowa Murders: A Shocking True Crime Story is a heartbreaking, gripping, page-turning thriller that you won't want to miss.
Download or read book Scott County Cemeteries written by John Brassard, Sr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Blackhawk Purchase of 1832, settlement of eastern Iowa was opened up to white settlers the next year. Antoine LeClaire, who served as the translator at the purchase, received large tracts of land from grateful members of the Sauk tribe. With this land, he and others founded the city of Davenport, named after Col. George Davenport, a successful fur trader. Other towns cropped up throughout Scott County, newly formed in 1837. Over the next several decades, Davenport and these other towns throughout the county grew and gave rise to successful, interesting citizens of their own. Some were inventors like William Bettendorf, who created the Bettendorf Truck. Others were lawyers and mayors, such as Ebenezer Cook and Ernst Claussen. Whatever their profession or the path they took in life, many left their mark on Scott County. They now lay in their final resting spot in the cemeteries of Scott County.
Download or read book Murder Mayhem in Indiana written by Keven Mcqueen and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 130 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 Murder and Mayhem in Jefferson County written by Cheri Farnsworth and published by Murder & Mayhem. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson County, located in New York's beautiful North Country, has a dark and violent past. During the long winter months, it was not the cold that was feared, but the killers. In 1828, Henry Evans committed a crime so brutal that the location in Brownsville is still called "Slaughter Hill." A real-life "Little Red Riding Hood," eleven-year-old Sarah Conklin met someone far worse than a wolf on her way home from school in 1875. And in 1908, Mary Farmer, a beautiful young mother hacked her neighbor to death and was sent to the electric chair. Author Cheri L. Farnsworth has compiled the stories of the most notorious criminal minds of Jefferson County's early history.
Download or read book Davenport written by Doug Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Americans inhabited the gentle sloping bluffs along the Mississippi River on which Davenport now sits. The peoples who lived on the fertile soil of eastern Iowa were forced into selling their land for pennies to white settlers. From the original survey of the town in 1836 throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, progress was steady as steamboats navigated the dangerous rapids of the Mississippi River, and settlers came to battle extreme Midwest winters and plow the unbroken prairie. In 1856, the first bridge to span the river was completed here, heralding the locomotive from the east and becoming of major importance to the movement west. German and other immigrant families came in droves and with them the development of major national industrial centers for agriculture and its implements, lumber and building material, alcohol and tobacco, and numerous other products. Davenport has been a town of unusual and fascinating history.
Download or read book Washington County Murder Mayhem Historic Crimes of Southwestern Pennsylvania written by A. Parker Burroughs and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore the history of murder and other crimes in Washington County, Pennsylvania"--
Download or read book Murder Madness and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier written by Nick Vulich and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder, Madness, and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier It's not the usual boring history read. It's a fast-paced, easy to read, behind the scenes look at the making of Iowa and Illinois focusing on Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. When you're done reading it, you might even scratch your head and think - Oh, yeah! That's what Mrs. So, and so taught me back in seventh-grade history class.And, I tell you what. We're going to skip all the boring parts, like dates, politics, and founding fathers. We're going to go right to the fun stuff... Indian Wars. Murder. Suicide. Incest. Robberies. Killer storms. If you live in Davenport, you're going to learn about the murder of the town's namesake, Colonel George Davenport, and get a few words about how he fathered two children by his stepdaughter, and another by a washerwoman at Fort Armstrong. If you live in Carthage or Nauvoo, we're going to review how the townspeople assassinated the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hiram Smith. Then fast forward two years and we will take a peek at the Mormon Wars at Nauvoo and the Mormon trek across Iowa. If you live in Camanche or DeWitt, Iowa, or Albany, Illinois, you're going to get a first-hand look at the Great Tornado of 1860 and how it killed over 150 people as it cuts its way from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Whiteside County, Illinois. If you live in Rockdale or Dubuque, Iowa, you're going to read about the Rockdale flood and how it destroyed every house in town and killed over 39 people in less than an hour. Of course, there's more... The Black Hawk War, Jessie James in Iowa, a short compendium of suicides, murders, and more.And, did I mention, in 1857 Iowa was at the forefront of a new lynching craze that spread across the nation. Between April and December of 1857, sixteen men met their maker at the end of a rope. Many more were whipped within an inch or their lives or given orders to move on or die.Such was life on the Iowa-Illinois Frontier...
Download or read book Murder Mayhem Madness written by Michael Keene and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes us on a journey into the past, investigating thirteen true stories of the dark side of local history. Drawing upon years of original research, often uncovering new clues, learn some of Western New York's most shocking crimes.
