Download or read book Manhunt in Palm Beach written by Joe Hawk and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhunt for the most elusive burglar to prowl the Town of Palm Beach. He evaded law enforcement officers on a nightly basis. It was though he was, “The Invisible Man.” After committing some sixty {60} burglaries, he was finally apprehended. The story and investigation involved the Palm Beach Police Detectives, the F.B.I., and last but not least a patrol officer by the name of Joe Hawk who had a major role in the apprehension and identification of the elusive burglar. This was a two-prong investigation, one by the detectives, and the F.B.I., and the other by the Burglary Strike Force. In the end it all came together to apprehend a man that stole over twenty-five {25} million dollars in jewelry. The investigation led the detectives and the F.B.I. through six counties, and four states seizing jewelry and arresting fences along the way.
Download or read book Solving the West Palm Beach Murder of Jeffrey Heagerty written by Graham Brunk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime story of a love triangle, drug deals, and the 1984 cold case murder of a gay, South Florida teenager. Jeffrey Heagerty was like most young gay nineteen-year-olds in South Florida in the 1980s, commonly finding himself and his friends at the popular Kevin's Cabaret in West Palm Beach on Saturday nights. On one of those Saturday nights in 1984, Jeff vanished from the club, leaving his friends behind even though he was their ride home. His body was found dumped in a canal the next morning and his car was missing, only to be found a month later, abandoned on the other side of town. Rumors of a love triangle, drug dealings and sexual encounters snarled police efforts at solving the case. The investigation stagnated and the case grew cold until the solution came from two unexpected sources: overlooked details in police photographs of Jeff's car and a mysterious letter from an inmate in the Palm Beach County Jail.
Download or read book The Palm Beach Murder written by Marion Collins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collins relates the shocking true story of a Palm Beach millionaire who, rather than losing his fortune in a split with his wife, hired a hit man in 1987 to kill her and then fled the country. photos. Original.
Download or read book Murder in Palm Beach written by MR Robert Glenn Brink and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died is based closely on a real murder that happened in 1976. Rodger Kriger, a prominent resident of the posh town, is fatally shot one night through a window of the six-member family's home. A politically ambitious prosecutor gets a hoodlum/karate expert named Mitt Hecher convicted on the basis of testimony by jail mates, and he is sent to the brutal and anarchic state prison at Raiford prison. While attorneys appeal for a new trial, Hecher's wife contracts a usually fatal disease, and he is devastated. Did Hecher kill Kriger? A newspaper reporter who questions Hecher's guilt continues to investigate the murder for years, and digs up shocking new information. A number of scenarios cast suspicion on other possible perpetrators. Did the sons of a wealthy Cuban do it? Were the operators of a gambling enterprise out to get Kriger? Was a prominent politician behind the slaying? Did a vicious underworld figure do the bidding of a criminal gang? Was a love triangle the basis for the shooting? Murder in Palm Beach is the tale of a man whose deeds have sent him plummeting to the bottom, and powerful forces determined to keep him there. A murder mystery with all the ingredients to keep the reader riveted, it is primarily a powerful story of redemption.
Download or read book Murder in Palm Beach written by Bob Brink and published by Pegasusbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just back from a dinner affair on a winter night in 1976, Rodger Kriger answers the doorbell in his Palm Beach home and is greeted with a fatal shotgun blast. He was a prominent citizen, and police, under pressure to find the killer, accuse tough guy Mitt Hecher, but soon exonerate him. Nonetheless, criminal prosecutor John Scraponia formally charges the karate expert with murder, and gets a jury to convict him. He is sentenced to a minimum 25 years in prison. While at the Wild West-like penitentiary at Raiford, an often-fatal disease attacks his loving wife, who has reformed him. Doubts about Hecher's guilt have persisted, and the doubters pursue a number of scenarios pointing to other possible perpetrators. Attorneys working without fees fail repeatedly in appeals for a new trial despite a lack of evidence pointing to Hecher and an abysmal performance by his attorney. Was Hecher innocent, and if so, who did it? Those are the questions seeking answers in this mystery tale of redemption, one steeped in violence as it explores issues of justice and power. Bob Brink is a freelance writer and blogger who worked at the Palm Beach Post, Associated Press in Chicago, Milwaukee Journal, Tampa Tribune, Joliet Herald-News, and Palm Beach Media Group, the flagship magazine of which was Palm Beach Illustrated. PBI was named Best Written Magazine in Florida after he became copy chief and feature writer. He learned to play the clarinet and tenor saxophone, and performed many years with a 65-piece symphonic band, tossing in a few professional big band gigs along the way. Brink was born in Michigan and grew up mainly in Iowa. He has a bachelor's in English and German, and studied journalism in graduate school at the University of Iowa.
Download or read book A Fairway to Die written by Dagmar Lowe and published by Green Dragon Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking murder shatters the peace and quiet of ritzy Palm Beach, Florida. And the town’s own Miss Marple is on the case. There’s a killer lurking somewhere in Palm Beach and residents are scared - very scared. When a prominent member of the posh Evergreen Golf Club is found clubbed to death on a fairway with a nine-iron left by his body, suspicion falls on just about everyone. Was it his family, his friends – or his neighbors on Golfview Road? In charge of the case is FBI agent Emilio Gonzales, except he’s running into roadblocks. But help is at hand. And it comes in the sexy shape of Molly Miller, Palm Beach’s answer to Miss Marple. The flirty widow knows everyone in the tropical playground of the rich and famous and it’s not long before she finds the murderer – and solves suspense author Dagmar Lowe’s classic whodunit.
Download or read book The Perfect 10 written by Eric O'Keefe and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POLO IS NOT JUST THE GAME OF KINGS. IT’S A BLOOD SPORT IN THE PERFECT 10. The final of the US Open is just days away, and Juancito Harrington, the world’s best polo player, is found dead in a posh Palm Beach hotel suite. The good news is that Palm Beach P.D. quickly identifies the trophy wife of Juancito’s team owner as the primary suspect. The bad news is that everyone in polo knows that Kelly Dick doesn’t murder her lovers. She recycles them. Only one man can crack the case: Rick Hunt, a West Point graduate currently assigned to the White House. Hunt is no detective, but he’s a lifelong polo player who needs no introduction to the world’s top pros. Or his ex-fiancée. Or her new boyfriend, an old teammate with a score to settle.
Download or read book Palm Beach Confidential Murder Intrigue and Forgery on Paradise Island written by Robert Mykle and published by Green Dragon Books. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a grisly Palm Beach murder scene, art gallery owner and private detective Maxie Roberts sets out to catch a killer. Palm Beach art gallery owner Maxie Roberts has just come from an ugly murder scene. Not only has his wealthy socialite client been brutally slain in the boudoir of her Palm Beach mansion, but Maxie suspects the paintings she hired him to appraise are forgeries. When he discovers that the fake paintings were substituted for the real ones, Maxie is determined to find the original art works – and catch himself a forger and a murderer. And with Maxie’s obsessive detective work poised to douse the flames of his relationship with sexy attorney Kathy Kramer, the heroic sleuth is drawn into a high-stakes murder case that threatens not only his fortune, but his very life. With an intimate knowledge of Palm Beach – a town where nothing is as it appears to be – author Robert Mykle styles a suspenseful, fast-moving tale in the style of Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown.”
Download or read book Palm Beach Deadly written by Tom Turner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knight Mulcahy makes 40 million a year on his top-rated radio show trashing people. Until the night he's found down at his pool house with his skivvies around his ankles, a bullet in his heart. Enter Palm Beaches finest: homicide cops Charlie Crawford and Mort Ott, who proceed to go in circles as the suspect list ramps up to double digits. Sin, scandal, murder... if you've read Nasty and Poison, you know the drill! Kirkus Reviews said,"readers who enjoyed the previous two installments [of the Palm Beach series] will welcome the return of Charlie Crawford, still cynically charming and dashing," and went on to say, "Deadly delivers an entertaining, and amusing, ride."
Download or read book Palm Beach Predator written by Tom Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palm Beach Nasty written by Tom Turner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned out by high-profile murders in New York and his love life splashed all over Page Six, homicide cop Charlie Crawford heads south and signs on with the Palm Beach PD. After months of petty crimes, he's first on scene to find a man hanging from a banyan tree. Prime suspects are a hedge-fund billionaire with a thing for young girls and a bartender with a sketchy past and a ten-out-of-ten creep factor. Right in the middle of it all is Crawford's girlfriend, a beautiful, conniving gallery owner, ready to do whatever it takes to move up a bracket or two. Add to the mix a sultry real estate broker who knows where all the bodies are buried, a gorgeous forensic cop often one step ahead of Crawford, a Mutt and Jeff combo of stone cold killers and you've got Palm Beach Nasty. "Turner's Palm Beach is a blend of desperate criminals, social climbers, merciless billionaires and surprising heroes," said Publishers Weekly. "Taut and efficient," Booklist said, and added, "it's a pleasure to watch craftsmen at work, and that describes the author as well as the cops."
Download or read book Palm Beach Broke written by Tom Turner and published by Charlie Crawford Palm Beach My. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Silicon Valley wonderboy whose company just tanked is found dead in a gruesome pose, Detective Charlie Crawford and his partner Mort Ott swing into action. Only problem is the crime scene is scrubbed clean, and leads...not a one. This comes the day after the cold-blooded murder of an owner of Palm Beach's most exclusive health club. Who said the high walls and privacy hedges of Palm Beach make it one of the safest places in the world?
Download or read book Palm Beach Bones written by Tom Turner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Charlie Crawford is having a tough week. First, Palm Beach's ex-police chief washes up dead on the beach behind The Breakers. Then Charlie's friend's niece is abducted without a trace. As if that wasn't bad enough, his brother just checked himself into a clinic for depression and alcoholism. The good news is Charlie's love life has never been better...except with the woman he really loves.
Download or read book F stop written by Frank Eberling and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced that over a dozen organized crime families had moved into Palm Beach County from the Northeast. None of the local television stations reported it. Jacob Alexander Gardner has seen just about everything. As a ten-year old he witnessed a gruesome murder in a corner newspaper store in Manhattan. As a television news shooter, he's spent years filming conflicts in Vietnam and the Mid-East. In New York he's chased the bad guys all over town, and now he's burned out. Leaving his estranged wife, he suddenly packs up in the middle of the night to get away from it all. He heads to Key West, for some well-deserved rest and umbrella drinks. While driving through West Palm Beach on I-95, he finds himself caught in the final moments of a high speed car chase that culminates in a police shootout. Instinctively, he has filmed it all, and none of the local TV affiliates have it. They want his footage. Hired to fill in temporarily at a West Palm Beach station, he soon settles in to a new routine as a local news shooter. But then one night while filming a sports feature at the local Jai Alai fronton, he sees someone from his past and his whole world careens out of control as he becomes implicated in mob-related activities. f/stop is look back at South Florida in the mid-1970s, just as millions of new residents were pouring in from the north, seeking a better, quieter life. What they often found was neighbors from back home. Frank Eberling was a South Florida Television News cameraman for ten years. He filmed over 3,000 stories, some of which are recreated in this novel. He went on to become an Emmy® Award-winning documentary producer for over forty-four years. Originally from New City, New York, he lives in Florida.
Download or read book Murder at Mar a Lago written by D. Leber and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a month of buying a Palm Beach condo, Audrey and Nate Stevens meet the eccentric millionaire Vincent Xaveir Houten. Their friendship lasts fifteen years but is brought to an abrupt halt when Vincent is murdered by a point-blank gunshot to the head. Being the last to see the victim alive always makes you the first suspect. That's the case for the Stevens until they convince police they'd never commit such a gruesome act. Once they're cleared, their relationship with Vincent turns them into trusted advisors as a Palm Beach detective searches frantically for a lead. The investigation heads to Kansas City, Missouri, where Nate organizes funeral services for Vincent. Motives of greed and jealousy emerge as suspects visit the funeral, and a Kansas City detective joins the search for clues. Finding the suspects, though, is the easy part. There's more to the story, and that's what keeps the Stevens scratching their heads. If this is a murder of opportunity, who has the most to gain?
Download or read book Don t Lose Her written by Jonathon King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a pregnant judge is abducted, a PI follows her trail into the Florida Everglades in this novel by “the master of the high-stakes thriller” (Michael Connelly). US district judge Diane Manchester has looked across the courtroom into the eyes of evil before. But today, as she presides over the extradition hearing of a notorious Colombian drug lord, she is also eight months pregnant. Her chair is uncomfortable, her robe is constrictive, and her due date is fast approaching. If she shows a single sign of weakness, Diane risks jeopardizing the biggest trial of her career and setting a vicious murderer free. In seconds, her situation takes a harrowing turn for the worse. Walking to her favorite lunch spot, Diane is grabbed off the street, thrown into the back of a white van, blindfolded, and threatened with death. She has no idea who her kidnappers are or what they want. Maintaining a strict code of silence, they refuse to give her even the smallest glimmer of hope. But Diane’s captors have overlooked a crucial detail: Her husband, Billy, is the employer and best friend of Max Freeman, Philadelphia cop turned South Florida private investigator. Tossing off the rule of law, Freeman sets out to determine which of a rogues’ gallery of suspects took Diane—and to save her and her unborn child before it’s too late. From the author of the Edgar Award winner The Blue Edge of Midnight, whose “descriptions of Florida’s backwaters put him right up there with James W. Hall and Randy Wayne White” (Chicago Tribune), this is a mystery with “the kind of clock-driven suspense seen in the best of Harlan Coben” (Booklist).
Download or read book Crooked Snake written by Lovejoy Boteler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred. Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard is the true story of Lepard, sentenced to life in Parchman for the murder of seventy-four-year-old Mary Young in 1959. During the course of his sentence, Lepard escaped from prison six times in fourteen years. In Crooked Snake, Boteler pieces together the story of this cold-blooded murderer's life using both historical records and personal interviews—over seventy in all—with ex-convicts who gravitated to and ran with Lepard, the family members who fed and sheltered the fugitive during his escapes, the law officers who hunted him, and the regular folks who were victimized in his terrible wake. Throughout Crooked Snake, Boteler reveals his kidnapper’s hardscrabble childhood and tracks his whereabouts before his incarceration and during his jailbreaks. Lepard’s escapes take him to Florida, Michigan, Kansas, California, and Mexico. Crooked Snake captures a slice of history and a landscape that is fast disappearing. These vignettes describe Mississippi’s countryside and spirit, ranging from sharecropper family gatherings in Attala County’s Seneasha Valley to the twenty-thousand-acre Parchman farm and its borderlands teeming with alligator, panther, bear, and wild boar.