Tag: 1930s
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‘The Carver Family Hatchet Murders, 1930’
Last year, 2019, I was approached by former Broadway actor and audiobook narrator Charles Huddeston, who offered to narrate my two books in the Famous Crimes the World Forgot series. I’ve been approached before by other narrators, but passed on their offers for one reason or another. I’m so, so thankful that I did not […]
Posted: November 1st, 2020 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1930s, Audio, Florida
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How to Get a Free CD with 35 Vintage True Crime Magazines
Update: October 3, 2018 I want to offer my sincere appreciation to Ron, Jenn, Larry, Sarah, Mia, Howard, & Steve who all took the time to write an Amazon review after reading HCD’s new book, “Vintage True Crime Stories: An Anthology of Forgotten Tales of Muder & Mayhem, Vol I.” As I promised to them, […]
Posted: September 28th, 2018 under New Books.
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Murder, Sex Crimes, Wife Killer, Women
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Mug Shot Monday! Lemuel Hawkins, veteran, baseball player, federal prisoner, & accidental gunshot victim, 1895-1934
Lemuel Hawkins, Auto Theft (Federal), 1931 Lemuel Hawkins (October 2, 1895 – August 10, 1934) was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants from 1921 to 1928. He was 5’10” and weighed 185 pounds. In 1931 he was arrested for […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1930s, African American, Petty Crimes
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The 1935 Delaware Execution of a Mother & Son
Story by Jason Lucky Morrow Posted: December 9, 2015 On November 9, 1927, twenty-year-old Howard Hitchens of Georgetown, Delaware, was growing concerned for his uncle, Robert, whom he had not seen in several days. When he went to the man’s home in nearby Frankford, he found him “beaten to death in a blood splattered room,” […]
Posted: December 9th, 2015 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, Delaware, Execution, Murder, Women
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Mug Shot Monday! Jake Vohland, Chicken Rustler, Poultry Pilferer, 1931
Since this is the week of thanksgiving, I wanted to work in a thanksgiving type crime. The best I could do was this poultry pilferer from 1931. Credit: Nebraska State Historical Society In 1931, during the depths of the Great Depression, Jake Vohland attempted to steal chickens from Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Stubblefield […]
Posted: November 23rd, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1930s, Nebraska, Petty Crimes
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