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Eastern State Penitentiary
9781596294035
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The only comprehensive history of one of America's most infamous prisons, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA.
Looming on the horizon like a storm cloud made of stone, the Eastern State Penitentiary spent more than a century as the fortress that both the law-abiding and criminal feared. In this superbly balanced and thoroughly researched volume, Paul Kahan presents the history of this revolutionary penitentiary, from its inception as a model of the revolutionary Pennsylvania System of incarceration in 1829 to the demands for its closure in the wake of ever-increasing violence in 1971. Through tales of spectacular escapes, official corruption, reformation and retribution, Kahan chronicles the tensions that plagued Eastern State since the arrival of its first prisoners.
New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial
9780738597744
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann have intrigued true crime buffs for decades.
New Jersey's Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial tells the story of ""the case that never dies"" through vintage photographs. Rare photographs, many not seen since the 1930s, will allow the reader to experience the massive police investigation led by New Jersey State Police superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf and the circus-like trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald
9781626192874
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher
9781467136457
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Killing of John Sharpless: The Pursuit of Justice in Delaware County
9781626190238
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Jefferson County Egan Murders
9781626192881
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%With interviews from key witnesses, authors Dave Shampine and Daniel Boyer recount the grisly story of this New Year's Eve North Country nightmare, which is still shrouded in mystery today.
The names Peter, Barbara Ann and Gerald Egan were familiar to Watertown police before December 31, 1964. The police suspected the trio in a long string of burglaries, and they were under investigation by the FBI for grand theft auto. But on that New Year's night, the Egans were shot execution style at a rest stop off Interstate 81. The gruesome gangland-style killings puzzled local and state police. Theories ranged from a simple confrontation gone awry to a premeditated act of retribution by hardened criminals who feared the Egans would turn state's witness.
Prohibition on the North Jersey Shore
9781609490591
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Many of the North Jersey Shore towns we know today began as quiet retreats for pious New Yorkers wishing to escape the vice and crime of the city.
Towns such as Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Red Bank, and Atlantic Highlands all got their start like this, but with the passage of Prohibition in 1919, the region became a haven for criminals who began smuggling liquor through the serene seaside. Speakeasies sprang up on virtually every corner, as gangsters like Vito Genovese, Charles "Lucky'? Luciano, and Meyer Lansky ruled this brutal underworld, while civilians were caught in the crossfire of gun battles between rival syndicates. Discover the true drama that captured the Jersey Shore during Prohibition.
The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County
9781609493165
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%On January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston.
The murder happened in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ (which is still standing). This story would go down in history as the first in Passaic County. Since the murder in 1850, it inspired the work of New Jersey's greatest poet William Carlos Williams. Williams would go on to inspire the works of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. In 1850, with the execution of Jonston, it became the first execution in Passaic County. The newspaper accounts of the day go into great depths to describe the day. As recorded in The New York Times in 1882 ""the abode of unearthly visitants,"" there have been documented occurrences of the unexplained occurring, and the current owner, Henry Tuttman is working to bring the house in the 21st Century while retaining the heritage of the house.
The North Country Murder of Irene Izak
9781609491192
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Uncover the story of the vicious and confounding killing of Pennsylvania School Teacher, Irene Izak, that has remained unsolved for four decades.
It was the summer of 1968, and she had been driving for days. Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was headed toward a new job and the promise of a new life in Quebec. She never reached the border that early June morning. Savagely bludgeoned, her face and head pummeled with rocks, Irene's body was discovered in a ravine by a state trooper patrolling Route 81 in Jefferson County, New York. Blending suspense with true-crime reporting, author Dave Shampine investigates the brutal murder that shook the communities of northeast Pennsylvania and New York's North Country. Join Shampine as he tells the story of this vicious and confounding killing that has remained unsolved for four decades.
Mystery, Millions & Murder in North Jersey
9781467137942
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Author John E. O'Rourke recounts the crime that rocked a sleepy community and brought the nation's eyes to North Jersey.
On a spring morning in Morristown in 1992, authorities discovered a car idling in a driveway with the door open and the driver missing. After they learned the driver was Sidney Reso, the president of Exxon International, the FBI joined the investigation. Over the next two months, law enforcement received cryptic communications that led to a cat-and-mouse chase for those responsible. Retired cop Arthur Seale and his wife, Irene, demanded one of the largest ransoms in U.S. history, and authorities struggled to solve the case.
Murder on Maryland's Eastern Shore
9781596290778
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Injustice on the Eastern Shore:
9781626199422
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Burlington County Prison:
9781609491055
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Murders in Monmouth
9781596293489
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