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About this book
From the duel on Bloody Island to the "Missouri Miracle" kidnapping and recovery of Shawn Hornbeck, Missouri has seen its share of notorious crimes. It was home to the first western gunfight on the town square between Wild Bill Hickok and Dave Tutt. The three trials of the alleged murderer of Colonel Thomas Swope, the founder of Kansas City's Swope Park, enveloped the state. Residents also saw the killings within a few blocks of each other that inspired the songs "Stagger Lee" and "Frankie and Johnny." Vicki Berger Erwin and James W. Erwin explore crimes, criminals and victims from the violent history of the last two hundred years in the Show Me State.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Content
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- 1. Duels and Gunfights
- 2. The Unsolved Murder of William Owens
- 3. “A Most Violent Act”: The Murder of Robert Newsom and the Execution of Celia, His Slave
- 4. “The Dirty Little Coward Who Shot Mr. Howard Laid Poor Jesse in His Grave”: Jesse James
- 5. Murder, Music and Movies
- 6. The Swope Murder Case
- 7. The Prosecutor’s Wife
- 8. Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death?
- 9. A Massacre in Tom’s Town: Kansas City Union Station, June 17, 1933
- 10. The Mortimer Murder
- 11. “Why Did You Have to Shoot Him?”: The Kidnapping and Murder of Bobby Greenlease
- 12. The Unluckiest Town in America: The Killings of Ken McElroy and Bobbi Jo Stinnett
- 13. American Gothic
- 14. The Missouri Miracle
- 15. One Minute and Thirty-Two Seconds: The Kirkwood City Hall Shooting
- Bibliography
- About the Authors