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Ohio’s capital city once teemed with crime bosses, rampant corruption and unpunished perversion. The Bad Lands of Columbus was a nationally recognized slum controlled by Smoky Hobbs. Columbus native Dr. Samuel B. Hartman, the world’s most successful snake oil salesman, was almost single-handedly responsible for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Local…
This scribbled note belonged to Sarah M. Cornell, written the day her body was found hanged in a rural pasture in Tiverton, Rhode Island. An unmarried young woman of limited means, Sarah was four months pregnant, and a married Methodist minister stood accused as the father. Local authorities grew skeptical of Sarah’s apparent suicide as…
From illegal gambling and prostitution to claims of alien abduction, Crescenta Valley has seen it all. Once home to thriving moonshine operations and shocking Nazi rallies, the valley’s past is riddled with scandalous tales that many would prefer to forget. Yet not all of Crescenta Valley’s tawdry history could remain forgotten or hidden in its…
Malice in a Mining Mecca Pernicious activity tends to follow prosperity, and the heyday of the Cripple Creek mining district was no exception. Cripple Creeks first murder spilled out from a saloon in 1892. The 1894 heist at the Victor Hotel took place mere monthsafter opening. Railroad superintendent Richard Newell was gunned down over a…
Prostitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the Law and Order League,” of Danville was, of course, “dry,” but the city’s mayor was personally was known to be “personally wet,” and in 1911 citizens were shocked to discover that…
In 1854, Decatur was nicknamed Hell’s Half Acre.”? By the 1910s and 1920s, the town was referred to as the “Second Most Corrupt City in Illinois, “? gaining notoriety as a place where murder, bootlegging, prostitution, kidnapping, gambling and political corruption were common. Members of the Decatur police force, like Troy Taylor’s great-grandfather, were hard-pressed…
The Mile-High City was never above fatal bar brawls, poison plots or any of the other transgressions history would like to ignore. From the moment it sprang from the frontier, Denver was a hotbed of violent money disputes, acts of criminal insanity and every manner of wickedness associated with street and saloon life. Men posed…
The Motor City boasts a long and sordid history of scoundrels, cheats and ne’er-do-wells. The wheeling and dealing prowess of founding father Antoine Cadillac is the stuff of legend. Fur trader and charlatan Joseph Campau grew so corrupt and rambunctious that he was eventually excommunicated by Detroit’s beloved Father Gabriel Richard. The slovenly and eccentric…
For many, Edisto is a little slice of heaven–live oaks festooned with Spanish moss, winding waterways and crashing surf. Yet the waterways were pathways for privateers, smugglers and gunboats. Marauders terrorized residents. Privateers made life uncertain during the War of 1812. John Wilson and Andrew Gillon dueled to the death on the sands of Edingsville….
Discover sinister stories of Erie’s hidden history. Life on the lake is not always pleasant, as these stories of scandal, robbery, murder, suicide, the mob, and more, reveal. The threatening reign of terror from the Phantom Burglar in the winter of 1926 kept Erie residents living in fear, culminating in a shocking finale. In 1927,…
Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century…
Present-day Fishers, Indiana, is one of the safest places to live in the U.S., but this respectable city has a rough and rowdy past. Starting off as a small railroad community, Fishers attracted its fair share of drifters, and the whiskey flowed like water. It may have been small, but the lawless town made national…
A rowdy red-light district, secret tunnels, and scathing newspaper editorials. Once home to sheep herders and ranchers, the railroad brought a new breed of pioneer to Flagstaff. Entrepreneurs and outlaws alike flocked to the growingtown, some finding success and others finding their end at Greenwood Cemetery. When saloons and bawdy houses rebelled against new blue…
Visit the wicked Fox Cities, full of place names like La Grand Butte des Morts (the Big Hill of the Dead”) and Winneconne (“the Place of Skulls”) that date from an era when “settlement” was frequently synonymous with “slaughter.” Even after the firm establishment of modern civilization, there remained an uneasy truce between lined pockets…
Georgetown has long been home to the most affluent and influential residents of the capital–but it has also played host to its fair share of high-end misdeeds and wickedly amusing scandals. Culprits range from Confederate spies to the prankster students who stole the clock hands of Georgetown University’s Healy Hall, while crime scenes include murder…
The audacious and tasty recipes showcase everything from the modern classics to serious in-your-face barbeque… a must for every grill aficionado. Chris Schlesinger, coauthor ofThe Thrill of the Grill How did two guys from Boston win hundreds of barbecue ribbons, thirty Kansas City Barbecue Society championships, and the biggest prize of them all, the Jack…
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