34 Results for : blotter
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Brooklyn's Most Wanted: The Top 100 Criminals, Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
Brooklyn's Most Wanted parades an impressive perp walk of 100 of the borough's most notorious, ranking them meticulously from bad to worst. From crime bosses to career criminals to corrupt politicians, pedophile priests to Ponzi scammers - this is not your usual crime chronicle. You want labor racketeering, Ponzi scheming, hijacking, murder, loan sharking, arson, illegal gambling and money laundering? Fugetaboutit! Take this guided tour through gangland that rips open the underbelly of Brooklyn - the broken land - to see what spills from the South Brooklyn Boys to the Soviet thugs of Brighton Beach's Little Odessa. Want to know what Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth and the Son of Sam all have in common? Brooklyn. Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Al Capone, Frankie Yale, Paul Vario, Roy DeMeo and so many more malicious malcontents and maniacs stalk this audiobook, as author Craig McGuire ranks a rogues' gallery of the best of the worst from Brooklyn's crime-ridden past and present. This includes more than a century of screaming crime blotter headlines, spotlighting epic cases, like the Brooklyn Godmother, the Sex Killer of Brooklyn, the Nurse Girl Murder, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, the Thrill Kills Gang, and many more. From "Son of Sam" to "Son of Sal", "Little Lepke" to "Big Paulie", "The Butcher of Brooklyn", "The Vampire of Brooklyn", "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight", even "The Man Who Murdered Brooklyn Baseball" - they're all here. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregg Rizzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095775/bk_acx0_095775_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America’s First Sports Hero , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
I can lick any son of a bitch in the world. So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sports for more than a decade and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego, a big mouth, and even bigger appetites. His womanizing, drunken escapades, and chronic police-blotter presence were godsends to a burgeoning newspaper industry. The larger-than-life boxer embodied the American dream for late 19th-century immigrants as he rose from Boston's Irish working class to become the most recognizable man in the nation. In the process the "Boston Strong Boy" transformed boxing from outlawed bare-knuckle fighting into the gloved spectacle we know today. Strong Boy tells the story of America's first sports superstar, a self-made man who personified the power and excesses of the Gilded Age. Everywhere John L. Sullivan went, his fists backed up his bravado. Sullivan's epic brawls, such as his 75-round bout against Jake Kilrain, and his cross-country barnstorming tour in which he literally challenged all of America to a fight are recounted in vivid detail, as are his battles outside the ring with a troubled marriage, wild weight and fitness fluctuations, and raging alcoholism. Strong Boy gives listeners ringside seats to the colorful tale of one of the country's first Irish American heroes and the birth of the American sports media and the country's celebrity obsession with athletes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007763/bk_blak_007763_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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