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Murder & Mayhem in Dayton and the Miami Valley

Author : Sara Kaushal

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 44,97 MB

Release : 2021-06-28

Category : History

ISBN : 1439672660

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The Miami Valley of Ohio has a rich but gruesome and bloody history. In Dayton, Christine Kett murdered her daughter and confessed seventeen years later on her deathbed. William Fogwell of Beavercreek clung to life long enough to name his killer before he died. Joshua Monroe, a Yellow Springs man, killed his lover--also his sister-in-law--in a jealous rage. Reputed serial killer Oliver Crook Haugh was accused of murdering multiple women over several years, but he was ultimately convicted of killing "only" his family. Author and founder of the Dayton Unknown history blog Sara Kaushal uncovers the violent and horrific crimes of the past.



Dayton Ghosts & Legends

Author : Sara K. Kaushal

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 40,82 MB

Release : 2023-08

Category : History

ISBN : 1467154121

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Every city has its odd and scary side, and Dayton is no exception. The ghost of Paul Sorg still sits in his favorite seat in the Sorg Opera House more than a hundred years after his death. The so-called phantom terrorized truck drivers crossing the Englewood Dam before disappearing for good. The famed Butter Street Monster roams Germantown. Magee Park is home to numerous bigfoot and ghost sightings--and even a unicorn sighting. A building of many names, the tower on Patterson Boulevard in Kettering near Hills and Dales Park has been the source of many stories for generations, but only now is its true story finally told. Dayton native, author, and host of the Dayton Unknown blog Sara Kaushal leads a chilling tour of Gem City's strange and unusual history.



Murder at Broad River Bridge

Author : Bill Shipp

Publisher : University of Georgia Press

Page : 113 pages

File Size : 14,76 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 082035161X

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Originally published: Atlanta, Ga.: Peachtree Publishers, 1981.



Lost Dayton, Ohio

Author : Andrew Walsh

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 25,36 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1625859090

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Explores Dayton's retail, industrial, entertainment, and residential sites and how they have changed over time.



Creating Cultural Monsters

Author : Julie B. Wiest

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 43,45 MB

Release : 2011-06-06

Category : Law

ISBN : 1439851557

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Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of studies, serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive exploration, Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America explains connections bet



Death as a Living

Author : Doyle Burke

Publisher : Inkshares

Page : 267 pages

File Size : 12,18 MB

Release : 2021-12-21

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1950301044

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"Entertaining and thought-provoking, Burke blends vignettes from his time on the beat with deeply considered ideas on policing." —Newsweek For more than 30 years, involving more than 1,000 cases, Doyle Burke has been a death investigator, first with the Dayton, Ohio police department, then with a county coroner’s office. In this book, he shares his tricks of the trade: how detectives solve cases, what they look for, the importance of forensic science, and the irreplaceable value of instinct. Along the way, Burke offers humorous trial anecdotes, thoughts on race and policing, stories about the fatal toll stress took on fellow officers, and, perhaps most movingly, details about the three fatal shootings of police officers – one of them one of his first friends on the department, another the son of his sergeant – that he had to investigate. Part memoir, part police procedural, and part true crime anthology, Death as a Living reveals the inside world of homicide and death investigation―the triumph, tragedy, humor, and truly bizarre situations one finds when working that beat.



Florida Man: A Story From the Files of Alexander Strange

Author : J. C. Bruce

Publisher : Strange Files

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 36,32 MB

Release : 2020-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781734290387

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Alexander Strange wants to get to Florida in the worst way. So he arrives in a coffin. And why not? He writes about news of the weird for a living, so what could be crazier than that? Well, things do get more bizarre when he hooks up with an old college friend. She's being blackmailed by a mad rhymester who sends her on a scavenger hunt across the state to a series of oddly haunted tourist traps. Kinda funny. Until it isn't. Bullets will do that.



The Killing Game

Author : Gary Webb

Publisher : Seven Stories Press

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 44,4 MB

Release : 2011-01-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1609801431

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Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall. He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal. His only published book, Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism. But his life consisted of much more than this one story, and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb's series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games. The Killing Game is a dedication to his life’s work outside of Dark Alliance, and it’s an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form.



Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy

Author : Brian Forst

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 941 pages

File Size : 40,13 MB

Release : 2008-10-20

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 110737717X

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Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy describes the problem of terrorism; compares it to other forms of aggression, particularly crime and war; and discusses policy options for dealing with the terrorism. It focuses on the causes of terrorism with the aim of understanding its roots and providing insights toward policies that will serve to prevent it. The book serves as a single-source reference on terrorism and as a platform for more in-depth study, with a set of discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Individual chapters focus on the nature of terrorism, theories of aggression and terrorism, the history of terrorism, the role of religion, non-religious extremism and terrorism, the role of technology, terrorism throughout the modern world, responses to terrorism, fear of terrorism, short-term approaches and long-term strategies for preventing terrorism, balancing security and rights to liberty and privacy, and pathways to a safer and saner 21st century.



The Heavenly Table

Author : Donald Ray Pollock

Publisher : Anchor

Page : 397 pages

File Size : 48,26 MB

Release : 2016-07-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0385541309

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From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.