Archive for August, 2014
Savage Killer Timothy McCorquodale, 1974
In Memoriam. Donna Marie Dixon, 1956 to 1974 Although it has been more than forty-years now, the memory of Donna Marie Dixon has not been erased by time. Her existence, her time with us in this world, lives on in the memory of four of her friends who wish to honor her, remember her, and […]
Posted: August 27th, 2014 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1970s, Execution, Georgia, Murder, Psychopath
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Mug Shot Monday! WJ Edwards 1938
. WJ Edwards 2-15-39, Convicted of Murder Story 1: “Two Are Held in City Death, Shots Blamed on Robbery Fear” Two men were held in the city jail Monday and funeral arrangements completed for a third as the aftermath of a shooting Sunday night in a one-room house at 129 West Chickasaw Avenue, Services for […]
Posted: August 25th, 2014 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1930s, Murder, Oklahoma
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The Marian Baker Murder of 1950
. Originally Published: “I Had To Kill,” by George Beltz, Front Page Detective, May, 1950. Editor’s Note: Articles written for detective magazines during the 1940s, 50s and 60s often incorporated “recreated dialogue” in order to both tell the story and to advance the storyline. For readers today, this dialogue will feel contrived and trite. In […]
Posted: August 15th, 2014 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1950s, Murder, Pennsylvania
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Mug Shot Monday! William Hutton Coble, 1964
William Hutton Coble was an escaped fugitive who got into a running gun battle with police after robbing a bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. While fleeing police, he dropped the stolen loot, shot a woman in the leg to steal her car, then turned down a dead end street where he surrendered after a shoot-out […]
Posted: August 11th, 2014 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1960s, Escape, FBI Most Wanted
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Mug Shot Monday! Opium Smuggler John Gavin, 1902
. “Police Officers Capture Opium Smugglers and All their Plunder,” The San Francisco Call, April 9, 1902. Police Officers A. 0. Juel and E. C. Gould captured two opium smugglers yesterday and secured their plunder. The officers will very likely receive a substantial reward from the Government. The men arrested were John Gavin, alias Murphy, […]
Posted: August 4th, 2014 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1900-1919, California, opium
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The Evil Dr. Hyde of Kansas City
. Originally Published: “The Diabolical Plot Concocted by Dr. B. C. Hyde of Kansas City to Gain Control of Col. Swope’s Millions,” by Thomas Samuel Duke, Celebrated Criminal Cases of America, The James H. Barry Company, 1910. Note: This is very famous case in Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri, 1909-1910 Thomas Hunton Swope, afterward known […]
Posted: August 1st, 2014 under Feature Stories.
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