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Explores the career of D.C. Stephenson, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, his rise to power and conviction for second-degree murder in 1925.
Who was the man who could proclaim with arrogant self-confidence, "I am the law in Indiana," and how did he and the Ku Klux Klan rise to a position of power unparalleled in other states? Why was the Klan so powerful in a northern state such as Indiana? The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere...
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The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. “What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today.” —Fox59
The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their...
The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their...
4) Notorious 92
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With almost one murder every day of the year in Indiana, violent crime is no stranger to the Hoosier state and has not escaped the heartland of America. And while Indiana is the nations sixteenth largest state by population, it has often stolen national headlines with astonishing crimes that defy imagination. It seems it always has been so. Notorious 92 looks back to crimes in each of the states 92 counties as old as the nineteenth century to reveal...
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Even the most sensational and scandalous crimes can disappear into history, the spine-chilling tales forgotten by subsequent generations. Murders that Made Headlines reveals some of these extraordinary but forgotten true events that captured the public's attention in the course of the last 200 years. Jane Simon Ammeson recounts the astonishing and sometimes bizarre stories of arsenic murders, Ponzi schemes, prison escapes, perjury, and other shocking...
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In The Notorious Mrs. Clem, Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of a charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme. Clem's story is a shocking tale of friendship and betrayal, crime and punishment, courtroom drama and partisan politicking, get-rich-quick schemes and shady business deals....
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True crime journalist Aphrodite Jones examines one of the most savage murders in Indiana history in which an innocent girl, Shanda Sharer, was murdered by four of her acquaintances in southeastern Indiana near Madison -- a tragic story of twisted love and insane jealousy, lesbianism, brutal child abuse, and sadistic ritual killing.
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[2017]
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Love and Greed in the Heartland is the story of an insurance fraud scheme gone fatally wrong. On one night in Richmond Hill, what was meant to be a small fire mushroomed into a major explosion and the largest homicide investigation in Indiana's history. With patience and meticulous attention to detail, former police captain and Commander of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department s Homicide Branch, Robert L. Snow, and award-winning investigative...
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