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Hoodlums, Hopheads, and Hepcats: Rogue Males of 1950's Crimes
by David Jacobs
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Ku Klux Klan: America's First Terrorists Exposed
by Patrick O'Donnell
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Available for purchase at Amazon.com
We are the rogue males of 1950s crime. In a lost America of big cars, cheap gas and open roads, we travel in rape, violence and sudden death. We stoke ourselves on booze, reefers, pep pills and heroin. We mock law and society's rules. Work? That's for jerks. Impulse is our only master. We take what we please, be it a payroll, a woman, or a life! Our numbers are legion, from two-bit punks to Park Avenue playboys, from mama's boys to hardboiled hoodlums. Drifters, beatniks, dope fiends, rape artists, grifters, teenage delinquents, and many more.
We're all here, and these are our true life stories, torn from the annals of 1950s crime. One more thing: we all got caught, convicted, and liquidated by the state! Hoodlums, Hopheads, and Hepcats, singly or in combination, they spell "Trouble" for decent citizens and the police. Collected here is a double fistful of true crime tales from the 1950s, documenting their criminal ways, wild rides and dire fates at the hands of the Law.
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The aftermath of the Civil War saw the Ku Klux Klan founded as a white supremacist insurgency of former Confederate rebels. But the Klan saw its greatest growth in the first decades of the 20th century. By 1925, with a membership of about four million, it was established in every state of the Union. Fueling its incredible growth was a potent combination of public relations expertise and high-pressure sales tactics applied to the business of hate. Its sinister legacy still confronts us today.
Collected here for the first time is a massive dossier of original source material documenting this bizarre episode of American history. Materials include government reports; long-hidden pages from the Klan's own handbook; pro- and anti-Klan articles from newspapers and magazines of the period; and much more, including the complete text of Ezra A. Cook’s classic piece of investigative reporting, “Ku Klux Klan: Secrets Exposed.” All unabridged.
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Hellcats, Vixens, & Vicedolls: Women, Crime, and Kink of the Fifties
by David Jacobs
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Sex Kill: Lust crimes that shocked a generation!
by David Jacobs
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Available for purchase at Amazon.com
SEX FOR SALE!
We are the savage sisterhood of 1950s crime. Society tells us to be "good girls", marry as virgins and raise up a mess of kids. We say, "Wise up!" We know the facts of life that you've got to use what you've got to get ahead. Men are after us for one thing only, SEX -- and they must pay for their pleasures. Don't be fooled by our soft words and sweet smiles; with us, the meter is always running. Anyone gets in our way, man, woman, or child, we get rid of them - Permanently!
FATAL FEMMES
Wives, mothers, sweethearts, daughters any of us can and will turn killer in a heartbeat. Among us are dope-crazed addicts, homicidal housewives, vicious blackmailers, bone-crushing Amazons, axe-murderesses, switchblade-wielding gang girls, and many more. These are our stories. The trouble is, no matter how beautiful, cunning and deadly we are, our final destination is a prison cell or death chamber. But we sure look good getting there!
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Inside the twisted mind of the sex killer, lust and murder are inextricably linked. He needs to control, terrorize and degrade his victims. Too often, violation becomes torture and murder– and sometimes, the unholy desecration of the deceased.
Here, from the detective and police magazines of the 1950s, is a casebook of the most infamous sex fiends ever to stain the true crime annals of the first half of the 20th century. Nightmare figures, many of whom continue to haunt our popular culture and motion pictures: Ed Gein, sex butcher and necrophile who inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO; Leopold and Loeb, collegiate thrill killers captured in the classic film COMPULSION; and the Lipstick Killer, whose scrawled plea, “Stop me before I kill more” was the basis for Fritz Lang’s WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS. Less well-known but equally malignant are such monster men as Earle Nelson, the Gorilla Killer; John Green, the “walking dead man” turned strangler-rapist; and the Ax-Man who stalked Chicago.
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Convicts, Jailbirds, and Reform School Girls: True Life Tales of Crime and Punishment in the 1950s
by David Jacobs
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Available for purchase at Amazon.com
CONVICTS: They are hardcore career criminals, tough, unregenerate wise guys who are so smart that they spend most of their lives in prison. They live for rape, robbery, narcotics, violence and murder - and that's when they're behind bars.
JAILBIRDS: Here are the gutter sweepings of the jailhouse system: second-rate, penny-ante crooks, thieves, dope peddlers, strong-arm goons and scam artists. They dream only of getting up enough nerve to pull off some heavy scores and graduate to big-time plunder and murder.
AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS: Forming switchblade-wielding girl gangs, taking their first shots of heroin, making "easy money" by selling their fresh young bodies, and attaching themselves to up-and-coming gun punks and triggermen, they're strictly poison in a candy wrapper.
CONVICTS, JAILBIRDS AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS -singly or in combination, they spell "Trouble" for decent citizens and the police as witnessed in this double fistful collection of true crime tales from the 1950s.
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