eBook - ePub

True Crime: Missouri

Name: True Crime: Missouri
ISBN: 9780811745116

The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases

David J Krajicek,

144 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

True Crime: Missouri

The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases

David J Krajicek,

About this book

Eleven stories of deadly doings in Missouri by "a standout writer of terse, staccato prose and vivid details" ( The Omaha Reader).

Missouri has a bloody history dating back to frontier days—not just in St. Louis or Kansas City but in small towns and rural hamlets where one local summed up how Missourians prefer to handle conflicts: You shoot, you shovel, and you shut up. In this book, David J. Krajicek recounts eleven true tales of shocking and infamous crimes in the state, among them:

The St. Louis barroom murder that inspired the popular song "Stagger Lee"
The vigilante killing of Ken McElroy, the "town bully" of tiny Skidmore, MO
The heartless kidnapping and murder of millionaire Robert Greenlease's son in Kansas City by a couple of St. Joseph barflies
The Kirkwood City Council massacre
The "throwaway" serial killings of over a dozen young prostitutes in Kansas City by a garbage collector
The forgotten story of "Cockeyed" Cook, a lost soul from Joplin who massacred an entire family and dumped them down a mineshaft
The "American Gothic" killers, farmer Ray Copeland and his wife, Faye, who murdered their farmhands near Chillicothe in a bizarre plot to make money—but made the mistake of planting their human crop too shallow
And more

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