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How would you treat a murderer? If you’re from Hollywood and he’s notorious, you might turn him into a folk hero. Separate the facts from the many legends and revisions that have blossomed around these killers in this frightening look at the bloody real lives of movie’s infamous antiheroes.

You’ll find a blood-curdling assortment of the “criminal elite” in American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media, a rogue’s gallery of our most famous killings, killers and other scoundrels (and some that ought to be more famous than they are). A collection of high-profile murderers, gangsters, assassins, psychopaths, such as O.J., Amy Fisher, Robert Blake, Susan Smith, Claus Von Bulow, the Menendez brothers, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel, Jesse James, John Dillinger, Charles Manson, Albert Fish, T. Cullen Davis, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., Edmund Kemper, Beulah Annan, Bonnie and Clyde, Billy the Kid, Charlie Starkweather, as well as an assortment of lesser known killers with some incredible tales!

With numerous photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. American Murderexplores the legends as depicted in movies, stories, and songs. You’d not want to meet any of them in person – either the real or Hollywood versions!

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Mass Murder

Media Studies

Social Science

Sociologie, société et politique

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Serial killer

Murder

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Serial Killers

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Publié par	Visible Ink Press
Date de parution	01 février 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781578592562
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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About the Author
Mike Mayo writes mostly about Hollywood and film. A print and broadcast journalist, he hosted the nationally syndicated Movie Show on Radio from 2001–06 (it was renamed Max and Mike on the Movies after ownership changes in 2005 and will eventually return as a podcast). Mayo continues to do weekly radio reports with stations in Richmond; Lynchburg, Virginia; Atlanta; and Detroit/Windsor, Ontario; and is a frequent guest on Wisconsin Public Radio to talk about movies. His work also appears in the Washington Post .
For Marcia, As Always

AMERICAN MURDER: Criminals, Crime, and the Media
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Mayo, Mike, 1948-
American murder : criminals, crime, and the media / Mike Mayo. p. cm.
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1. Crime in popular culture--United States--Case studies. 2. Crime in mass media–United States--Case studies. 3. Murder in mass media--United States–Case studies. I. Title.
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Table of Contents
A
Abbott, Burton
Abbott, Jack
Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Adonis, Joe
Allen, Floyd
Ames, Aldrich
Anastasia, Albert
Anderson, William
Annan, Beulah
Arbuckle, Roscoe
Archer-Gilligan, Amy
Arnold, Stephen
B
Bailey, Harvey
Ball, Joe
Barker, Kate
Barnes, Leroy
Barrow, Clyde (and Bonnie Parker)
Barrows, Sydney Biddle
Barton, Mark
Beck, Martha
Becker, Charles
Beckwith, Byron de la
Bembenek, Lawrencia
Bender Family
Berkowitz, David
Billington, John
Bjorkland, Rosemarie
Black Hand
Blackbeard
Blake, Robert
Bledsoe, Jerry
Bonanno, Joseph
Booth, John Wilkes
Borden, Lizzie
Boston Strangler
Brando, Christian
Bremer, Arthur
Buchalter, Louis
Bundy, Ted
Buntline, Ned
Burke, David
Burke, Elmer
Burke, Jimmy
Burns, Robert Elliott
C
Capone, Alphonse
Cardinella, Salvatore
Carpenter, Richard
Carter, Rubin
Cassidy, Butch
Castellano, Paul
Chapman, Gerald
Chapman, Mark David
Chessman, Caryl
Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping
Cleveland Torso Killings
Cline, Alfred
Cohen, Mickey
Coll, Vincent
Collins, John Norman
Colombo, Joe Sr.
Coneys, Theo
Cook, William
Cooper, D.B.
Corll, Dean
Corona, Juan
Costello, Frank
Cowley, Samuel
Crane, Bob
Crane, Cheryl
Crater, Judge Joseph
Crowley, Francis
Cullen, Charles
Cunanan, Andrew
Czolgosz, Leon
D
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Dalton Gang
Darrow, Clarence
Davis, T. Cullen
DeFeo, Ronald
Diamond, Jack
Dillinger, John
Doolin, Bill
Doss, Nannie
Dunne, Dominick
Durrant, Theo
F
Ferguson, Paul
Finch, Bernard
Fish, Albert
Fisher, Amy
Fleiss, Heidi
Floyd, Charles
Frank, Leo
Frazier, John
Fromme, Lynette (and Sara Jane Moore)
G
Gacy, John
Gallo, Joey
Gambino, Carlo
Gein, Ed
Genovese, Vito
Giancana, Salvatore
Gillette, Chester
Gilmore, Gary
Glatman, Harvey
Gohl, Billy
Gotti, John
Graham, Barbara
Graham, John
Gravano, Salvatore
Guiteau, Charles
Gunness, Belle
H
Hagan, Thomas
Hanssen, Robert
Hardin, John Wesley
Harris, Clara
Harris, David
Harris, Eric and Dylan Klebold
Harris, Jean
Harvey, Julian
Hearst, Patricia
Heirens, William
Hennard, George
Hill, Virginia
Hillside Stranglers
Hinckley, John
Hoffa, Jimmy
Holman, Libby
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horn, Tom
Huberty, James
J
James, Jesse
Johnson, Ellsworth
Johnson County War
Jones, James Warren
Judd, Winnie Ruth
K
Kaczynski, Ted
Kansas City Massacre
Karpis, Alvin
Kehoe, Andrew
Kelly, George
Kemper, Edmund
Ketchum, Thomas
Kimes, Sante
Koresh, David
L
Lamm, Herman
Lansky, Meyer
Leopold and Loeb
Lewingdon, Gary & Thaddeus
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
Lindbergh Kidnapping Circus
List, John
Longet, Claudine
Lucas, Henry Lee
Lucchese, Tommy
Luciano, Charles
Luetgert, Adolph
M
MacDonald, Jeffrey
Madden, Owney
Mafia
Malvo, Lee Boyd
Manson, Charles
Maranzano, Salvatore
Marin County Courthouse Shootout
Masseria, Giuseppe
Massie Case
Matasareanu, Emil and Larry Eugene Phillips
McCall, Jack
McCarty, Henry
McConaghy, Robert
McGurn Jack
McMartin Family
McVeigh, Timothy
Menendez Brothers
Metesky, George
Mineo, Sal
Molineux, Roland
Monroe, Marilyn
Morrell, Ed
Morris, Frank
Moseley, Winston
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Mudgett, Herman
Mullin, Herbert
Murder, Inc.
Murrell, John
N
Nash, Jay Robert
National Police Gazette
Nelson, George
Nelson, Earle
New Orleans Axeman
Ng, Charles and Leonard Lake
Nitti, Frank
O
O.K. Corral
Osama bin Laden
Oswald, Lee Harvey
P
Packer, Alferd
Pancoast, Marvin
Panzram, Carl
Peterson, Scott
Pierce, Bruce
Pierre Hotel Robbery
Pino, Anthony
Poole, William
Prohibition
Puente, Dorothea
Purple Gang
Purvis, Melvin
Q
Quantrill, William
R
Rader, Dennis
Ramirez, Richard
Ramsey, Jon Benet
Ray, James Earl
Rees, Melvin
Remus, George
Ridgway, Gary
Rifkin, Joel
Rogers, George W.
Rogers, Mary Cecelia
Rolling, Daniel
Rothstein, Arnold
Ruby, Jack
Rudolph, Eric
Rule, Ann
Russell, George
S
Sacco & Vanzetti
Saldana, Theresa
Salem Witch Trials
Schmid, Charles Howard
Schultz, Dutch
Scottsboro Boys
Shakur, Tupac, and Notorious B.I.G.
Shawcross, Arthur
Sheppard, Sam
Sherman, Lydia
Sherrill, Patrick
Short, Elizabeth
Siegel, Ben
Simpson, O.J.
Sirhan, Sirhan
Smart, Elizabeth
Smith, Perry and Dick Hickok
Smith, Susan
Snyder, Ruth
Spangler, Jean
Spanish, Johnny
Speck, Richard
Spooner, Bathsheba
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Starkweather, Charles
Stratten, Dorothy
Stroud, Robert
Stuart, Charles
T
Taborsky, Joseph
Taylor, William Desmond
Thaw, Harry K.
Thompson Submachine Gun
Thompson, Gerald
Tirrell, Albert
Todd, Thelma
Toppan, Jane
Torresola, Grizelio and Oscar Collazo
Tracy, Harry
Trafficante, Santo
Trepal, George
Turner, Nat
U
Unruh, Howard
V
Valachi, Joe
Von Bülow, Claus
W
Waite, Arthur
Wall Street Bombing
Watson, J.P.
Weaver, Randy
Webster, John White
Weiss, Carl
West Memphis Three
White, Dan
Whitman, Charles
Wilder, Christopher
Williams, Wayne
Wuornos, Aileen
Y
Younger Brothers
Yousef, Ramzi
Z
Zangara, Joseph
Zodiac Killings
Introduction
“The Americans certainly are great hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.”
W hen Oscar Wilde wrote these words in a letter on April 19, 1882, he was referring to Jesse James. Wilde was in Missouri on a coast-to-coast lecture tour of the country and, to judge by the other letters he wrote then, was having a whale of a good time. Jesse had been shot a few weeks before, just a few blocks from where he was staying. By the time la belle Oscar hit town, the locals were stealing everything that had any connection to the famous outlaw and selling the items at public auction.
Wilde marveled at the prices they were getting for Jesse’s coal scuttle, dust bin, and boot scraper, and he was delighted by the excitement Jesse’s murder had generated. Perhaps the famous writer and future jailbird (they nailed him on a “gross indecency” rap in 1895) recognized a kindred spirit. The “great train-robber and murderer,” as Wilde referred to him, had been famous for years, and for good reason. Jesse was no slouch when it came to self-promotion, and he had legions of defenders both locally and nationally. In death, though, he was transformed into something much greater and Wilde was on hand to witness it.
Jesse was one of the first celebrity murderers. Over the years, he became such an icon in American popular culture that the truth of his many crimes has largely been forgotten. Perhaps more accurately, the truth has been eclipsed by stories—stories people want to hear and see again and again.
The simple truth is that the idea of murder fascinates us.
I came to this book as a writer, film reviewer, and omnivorous consumer of crime fiction. I knew a little about almost all of these cases. I knew a lot about a few of them. Almost all of it was wrong. The difference between historical truth and what we assume to be true about the past is vast. What do you think when you hear these names? Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: Most people probably imagine two good-looking misunderstood kids in love who somehow went wrong and spun out of control. Don’t believe it. They killed one of Charlie’s friends who had helped them hide out and Caril Ann’s baby sister because she wouldn’t stop crying. Bruno Hauptmann: Revisionists have cast him as an innocent carpenter who was framed by the powerf