Research Catalog

Title

American murder : criminals, crime, and the media / by Mike Mayo.

Author

Mayo, Mike, 1948-

Publication

Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xxi, 425 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Scurrilous cutthroats, marauding desperadoes, demented psychopaths, deluded assassins, serieal widows, ruthless gansters, angels of death, and hardened hitmen from Colonial times to the present, and the songs, books, plays, and films they have inspired.

Subjects

• Case studies
• Murder in mass media > Case studies
• Crime in mass media > Case studies
• Murder in mass media > United States > Case studies
• Crime in mass media > United States > Case studies
• Crime in popular culture > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• "Scurrilous cutthroats, marauding desperadoes, demented psychopaths, deluded assassins, serial widows, ruthless gangsters, angels of death, and hardened hitmen from colonial times to the present, and the songs, books, plays, and films they have inspired."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-394) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Burton Abbott -- Jack Abbott -- Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Joe Adonis -- Floyd Allen -- Aldrich Ames -- Albert Anastasia -- William Anderson -- Beulah Annan -- Roscoe Arbuckle -- Amy Archer-Gilligan -- Stephen Arnold -- Harvey Bailey -- Joe Ball -- Kate Barker -- Leroy Barnes -- Clyde Barrow (and Bonnie Parker) -- Sydney Biddle Barrows -- Mark Barton -- Martha Beck -- Charles Becker -- Byron de la Beckwith -- Lawrencia Bembenek -- Bender family -- David Berkowitz -- John Billington -- Rosemarie Bjorkland -- Black Hand -- Blackbeard -- Robert Blake -- Jerry Bledsoe -- Joseph Bonanno -- John Wilkes Booth -- Lizzie Borden -- Boston strangler -- Christian Brando -- Arthur Bremer -- Louis Buchalter -- Ted Bundy -- Ned Buntline -- David Burke -- Elmer Burke -- Jimmy Burke -- Robert Elliot Burns -- Alphonse Capone -- Salvatore Cardinella -- Richard Carpenter -- Rubin Carter -- Butch Cassidy -- Paul Castellano -- Gerald Chapman -- Mark David Chapman -- Caryl Chessman -- Chowchilla school bus kidnapping -- Cleveland torso killings -- Alfred Cline -- Mickey Cohen -- Vincent Coll -- John Norman Collins -- Joe Colombo Sr. -- Theo Coneys -- William Cook -- D. B. Cooper -- Dean Corll -- Juan Corona -- Frank Costello -- Samuel Cowley -- Bob Crane -- Cheryl Crane -- Judge Joseph Crater -- Francis Crowley -- Charles Cullen -- Andrew Cunanan -- Leon Czolgosz -- Jeffrey Dahmer -- Dalton Gang -- Clarence Darrow -- T. Cullen Davis -- Ronald DeFeo -- Jack Diamond -- John Dillinger -- Bill Doolin -- Nannie Doss -- Dominik Dunne -- Theo Durrant -- Paul Ferguson -- Bernard Finch -- Albert Fish -- Amy Fisher -- Feidi Fleiss -- Charles Floyd -- Leo Frank -- John Frazier -- Lynette Fromme (and Sara Jane Moore) -- John Gacy -- Joey Gallo -- Carlo Gambino -- Ed Gein -- Vito Genovese -- Chester Gillette -- Gary Gilmore -- Harvey Glatman -- Billy Gohl -- John Gotti -- Barbara Graham -- John Graham -- Salvatore Gravano -- Charles Guiteau -- Belle Gunness
• Thomas Hagan -- Robert Hanssen -- John Wesley Hardin -- Clara Harris -- David Harris -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -- Jean Harris -- Julian Harvey -- Patricia Hearst -- William Heirens -- George Hennard -- Virginia Hill -- Hillside Stranglers -- John Hinckley -- Jimmy Hoffa -- Libby Holman -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Tom Horn -- James Huberty -- Jesse James -- Ellsworth Johnson -- Johnson County War -- James Warren Jones -- Winnie Ruth Judd -- Ted Kaczynski -- Kansas City Massacre -- Alvin Karpis -- Andrew Kehoe -- George Kelly -- Edmund Kemper -- Thomas Ketchum -- Sante Kimes -- David Koresh -- Herman Lamm -- Meyer Lansky -- Leopold and Loeb -- Dary & Thaddeus Lewingdon -- Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping -- Lindenberg Kidnapping Circus -- John List -- Claudine Longet -- Henry Lee Lucas -- Tommy Lucchese -- Charles Luciano -- Adolph Luetgert -- Jeffrey MacDonald -- Owney Madden -- Mafia -- Lee Boyd Malvo -- Charles Manson -- Salvatore Maranzano -- Marin County Courthouse Shootout -- Giuseppe Masseria -- Massie Case -- Emil Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips -- Jack McCall -- Henry McCarty -- Robert McConaghy -- McGurn Jack -- McMartin family -- Timothy McVeigh -- Menendez Brothers -- George Metesky -- Sal Mineo -- Roland Molineux -- Marilyn Monroe -- Ed Morrell -- Frank Morris -- Winston Moseley -- Mountain Meadow Massacre -- Herman Mudgett -- Herbert Mullin -- Murder, Inc. -- John Murrell -- Jay Robert Nash -- National Police Gazette -- George Nelson -- Earle Nelson -- New Orleans Axeman -- Charles Ng and Leonard Lake -- Frank Nitti -- O. K. Corral -- Osama bin Laden -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- Alfred Packer -- Marvin Pancoast -- Carl Panzram -- Scott Peterson -- Bruce Pierce -- Pierre Hotel Robbery -- Anthony Pino -- William Poole -- Prohibition -- Dorothea Puente -- Purple Gang -- Melvin Purvis -- William Quantrill -- Dennis Rader -- Richard Ramirez -- JonBenet Ramsey -- James Earl Ray -- Melvin Rees -- George Remus -- Gary Ridgway -- Joel Rifkin -- George W. Rogers -- Mary Cecelia Rogers -- Daniel Rolling -- Arnold Rothstein -- Jack Ruby -- Eric Rudolph -- Ann Rule -- George Russell
• Sacco & Vanzeeti -- Theresa Saldana -- Salem Witch Trials -- Charles Howard Schmid -- Dutch Schultz -- Scottsboro boys -- Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. -- Arthur Shawcross -- Sam Sheppard -- Lydia Sherman -- Patrick Sherrill -- Elizabeth Short -- Ben Siegel -- O. J. Simpson -- Sirhan Sirhan -- Elizabeth Smart -- Perry Smith and Dick Hickok -- Susan Smith -- Ruth Snyder -- Jean Spangler -- Johnny Spanish -- Richard Speck -- Bathsheba Spooner -- St. Valentine's Day Massacre -- Charles Starkweather -- Dorothy Stratten -- Robert Stroud -- Charles Stuart -- Joseph Taborsky -- William Desmond Taylor -- Harry K. Thaw -- Thompson Submachine Gun -- Gerald Thompson -- Albert Tirrell -- Thelma Todd -- Jane Toppan -- Grizelio Torresola and Oscar Collazo -- Harry Tracy -- Santo Trafficante -- George Trepal -- Nat Turner -- Howard Unruh -- Joe Valachi -- Claus Von Bülow -- Arthur Waite -- Wall Street Bombing -- J. P. Watson -- Randy Weaver -- John White Webster -- Carl Weiss -- West Memphis Three -- Dan White -- Charles Whitman -- Christopher Wilder -- Wayne Williams -- Aileen Wuornos -- Younger brothers -- Ramzi Yousef -- Joseph Zangara -- Zodiac killings.

ISBN

• 9781578591916
• 1578591910

LCCN

^^2007047626

OCLC

• 154714191
• SCSB-10907160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library