Gilded Age Murder Mayhem In The Berkshires
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Gilded Age Murder Mayhem In The Berkshires
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Author : Andrew K. Amelinckx
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-12
Gilded Age Murder Mayhem In The Berkshires written by Andrew K. Amelinckx and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with History categories.
This criminal history of the Berkshires is brimming with unforgettable stories of greed, jealousy, and madness from the turn of the twentieth century. The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts are known for their picturesque beauty, but this history offers a fascinating look at the region’s dark side. This chronicle includes true tales of greed, betrayal and violence in The Bay State. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of the upper crust . . . A visit from President Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 ended in tragedy when a trolley car smashed into the presidential carriage, killing a Secret Service agent . . . A psychotic millworker opened fire on a packed streetcar, leaving three dead and five wounded, shocking the nation . . . These and many more stories—from axe murders to botched bank jobs—paint a stark portrait of the inequities that shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age.
Satellite Boy
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Author : Andrew Amelinckx
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2023-03-21
Satellite Boy written by Andrew Amelinckx and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-21 with True Crime categories.
Spanning the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early days of the Cold War, Satellite Boy reveals the unlikely connection between an audacious bank heist and the “other Space Race” that gave birth to the modern communication age On April 6, 1965, Georges Lemay was relaxing on his yacht in a south Florida marina following one of the largest and most daring bank heists in Canadian history. For four years, the roguishly handsome criminal mastermind hid in plain sight, eluding capture and the combined efforts of the FBI, Interpol, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His future appeared secure. What Lemay didn’t know was that less than two hundred miles away at Cape Canaveral, a brilliant engineer named Harold Rosen was about to usher in the age of global live television with the launch of the world’s first twenty-four-hour commercial communications satellite. Rosen’s extraordinary accomplishment would not only derail Lemay’s cushy life but change the world forever. Brimming with criminal panache and technological intrigue, and set against a turbulent and iconic period that includes the moon landing and the civil rights movement, Satellite Boy tells the largely forgotten, high-stakes story of the two equally driven men who inadvertently launched the modern era.
The Unfolding History Of The Berkshires
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Author : David McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Unfolding History Of The Berkshires written by David McLaughlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Berkshire Hills (Mass.) categories.
This book contains timelines that tell the history of a picturesque and culturally rich section of New England. Features stunning photographs and a 3D map of the region.
All That Is Wicked
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Author : Kate Winkler Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-10-04
All That Is Wicked written by Kate Winkler Dawson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with True Crime categories.
Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind. Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a “Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter”—whose crimes spanned decades and whose victims were chosen out of revenge, out of envy, and sometimes out of necessity. From his humble beginnings in upstate New York to the dazzling salons and social life he established in New York City, at every turn Rulloff used his intelligence and regal bearing to evade detection and avoid punishment. He could talk his way out of any crime...until one day, Rulloff's luck ran out. By 1871 Rulloff sat chained in his cell—a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century "mindhunters" tried to understand what made him tick. From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyze the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (who analyzed the bumps on his head to determine his character), each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made? Eventually, Rulloff’s brain would be placed in a jar at Cornell University as the prize specimen of their anatomy collection...where it still sits today, slowly moldering in a dusty jar. But his story—and its implications for the emerging field of criminal psychology—were just beginning. Expanded from season one of her hit podcast on the Exactly Right network (7 million downloads and growing), in All That Is Wicked Kate Winkler Dawson draws on hundreds of source materials and never-before-shared historical documents to present one of the first glimpses into the mind of a serial killer—a century before the term was coined—through the scientists whose work would come to influence criminal justice for decades to come.
The Gritty Berkshires
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Author : Maynard Seider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10
The Gritty Berkshires written by Maynard Seider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10 with History categories.
For generations of working-class families who have lived in Massachusetts' northern Berkshires, reality looks like Rust Belt America. Maynard Seider, an activist sociologist who has taught and researched in the area for more than three decades, places the history of the North Berkshire region in the context of U.S. and global history.
The Berkshire Cottages
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Author : Carole Owens
language : en
Publisher: Cottage Publications
Release Date : 1984
The Berkshire Cottages written by Carole Owens and has been published by Cottage Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Art categories.
Hudson Valley Murder Mayhem
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Author : Andrew K. Amelinckx
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017
Hudson Valley Murder Mayhem written by Andrew K. Amelinckx and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Visit the long ago crime and dire deeds in the Hudson Valley of New York. The Hudson Valley is drenched in history, culture and blood. In the fall of 1893, Lizzie Halliday left a trail of bodies in her wake, slaughtering two strangers and her husband before stabbing a nurse to death at the asylum housing her. A Jazz Age politician, tired of fighting with his overbearing wife, murdered her and buried the body under the front porch. In 1882, a cantankerous old miner, dubbed the "Austerlitz Cannibal" by the press, chopped up his partner before he himself swung from the end of a rope. Author Andrew Amelinckx dredges up the Hudson Valley's dark past, from Prohibition-era shootouts to unsolved murders, in eleven heart-pounding true stories.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who Have Been Condemned And Executed For Murder The Highway Housebreaking Street Robberies Coining Or Other Offences
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Author : Arthur L. Hayward
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who Have Been Condemned And Executed For Murder The Highway Housebreaking Street Robberies Coining Or Other Offences written by Arthur L. Hayward and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Pirate Devlin
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Author : Mark Keating
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2010-07-27
The Pirate Devlin written by Mark Keating and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-27 with Fiction categories.
A wry, swashbuckling tale of greed and deceit that traverses the excitement—and fury—of the 18th-century's golden age of piracy. An injured French officer struggles along a desolate stretch of West African coastline, desperate to hold on to a secret. His tale soon ends—violently—but a young pirate recruit, Patrick Devlin, leaves that same beach unscathed, with a new pair of boots and a treasure map in his possession. Now, the adventures of the pirate Devlin, his shipmates, and those who wish them all dead move forward without restraint, through broadside barrages and subterfuge and brutal encounters on land and at sea, where nothing is as it seems. In these pages, readers will meet Blackbeard and his cohorts, Portuguese colonial governors and French commandants, officials of the East India Company and Royal Naval officers, fresh-faced midshipmen and gnarly, scarred, and drunken pirate crewmen. But none is as impressive and memorable as the former servant and newly minted pirate Captain Devlin—unless it's the one man he once served on board a British man-of-war, a man now sworn to kill him.
Pittsfield S Fosburgh Murder Mystery Scandal In The Berkshires
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Author : Frank J. Leskovitz
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2016
Pittsfield S Fosburgh Murder Mystery Scandal In The Berkshires written by Frank J. Leskovitz and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Shots rang out in a prominent Pittsfield family home on the morning of August 20, 1900, ending the life of young socialite May Fosburgh. Who pulled the trigger was unclear, and the scandal captivated attention well beyond the Berkshires. Her brother was a top suspect, but the distraught family claimed an intruder was to blame. Investigators, media and the public struggled to make sense of conflicting details, including suspicious gunpowder residue, as the mystery remained unsolved. Author Frank J. Leskovitz unravels the tale that still lingers in the hills generations later.