Historic Columbus Crimes

by Meyers, David; Walker, Elise Meyers

• ISBN13: 9781596292154
• ISBN10: 1596292156
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-29
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

In Historic Columbus Crimes, the father-daughter team of David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery and mayhem culled from city history. Take the rock star slain by a troubled fan or the drag queen slashed to death by a would-be ninja. Then there's the writer who died acting out the plot of his next book, the minister's wife incinerated in the parsonage furnace and a couple of serial killers who outdid the Son of Sam. Not to mention a gunfight at Broad and High, grave-robbing medical students, the bloodiest day in FBI history and other fascinating stories of crime and tragedy. They're all here, and they're all true! Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
The Resurrection War	p. 11
Fightin' Words	p. 17
Flytown Frenchy's Finale	p. 24
Death Rides the Rails	p. 30
Murder in Sellsville	p. 36
In a Lonely Place	p. 44
Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind	p. 52
The Thing	p. 59
Mama's in the Furnace	p. 65
Beauty and the Brain	p. 72
Blood Brothers	p. 80
How Not to Write a Crime Novel	p. 87
Think of Laura	p. 93
The Buddy System	p. 100
The Ninja Drag Queen Killer	p. 103
The Day the Music Died-Again	p. 114
Notes	p. 121
Bibliography	p. 125
About the Authors	p. 127
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