[PDF] Murder On Youngers Creek Road eBook

Author : Gary P. West
Publisher : Acclaim Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781948901499

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On January 13, 1975, the enterprising community of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (a few miles from Fort Knox and the gold vault) was rocked with the news that one of their own, Peggy Rhodes--beloved housewife, mother, and grandmother--was killed when a bomb exploded in the family barn. An hour south along I-65 lies Bowling Green, a city known for small town values, a burgeoning industrial complex, the expanding Western Kentucky University campus, and as "Home of the Corvette". However, the city was also just one generation removed from earning the nickname "Little Chicago," a regional hotbed for car thefts, bootlegging, gambling, prostitution--and worse still--bombings and horrific murders. Murder on Youngers Creek Road is the true story of a murder-for-hire gone wrong that involves a well-known automobile dealer, two hit men hired to kill him, and a pair of high-profile business partners. The product of more than two years of research and interviews and writing, this book details one of the most complex murders of the decade and how it brought together two Kentucky towns in an unflattering way. It is a "tale of two cities" mired in the muck of greed, violence and murder, and of local efforts to bring the guilty parties to justice. In the end, both the innocent and the guilty would lose their lives. In the beginning investigators were baffled. Why would anyone want to kill a 57-year-old woman, who by all appearances did her part in community activities, loved her family and enjoyed her time playing bridge with friends? Two weeks into the New Year of 1975, a horrific explosion ripped through the body of Peggy Rhodes and her pet horse, Tony. Who could possibly have wanted her dead? On a cold dark January night, a sudden blast interrupted the stillness of freshly fallen snow and with it, the lives of several Kentucky families were changed forever....

Author : Nancy Martin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101614056

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Society columnist Nora Blackbird is thrust into the world of celebrity tabloid gossip when a billionaire buys the farm…. Nora’s assigned to write a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel. But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered. And now her boss wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed Starr before the cops do. But solving this murder won’t be easy with a family as colorful as Nora’s. Mick, her sort-of husband, is associating with unsavory characters from his past. Her sister Libby is transforming into a stage mom for her diabolical twins. And Emma, the youngest Blackbird, is mysteriously kicked out of the house by Mick. Nora’s home life may be hogging the spotlight, but there’s also a matter of Starr’s missing pig, which just might be the key to solving this mystery and the way Nora can bring home the bacon….

Author : Patricia Daspit
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620241498

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Joe cautiously walked toward the woman, keeping his gun pointed at her the whole time. As he crept up to the porch, he saw a man slumped over. His face was covered with blood. On a cold winter night in a heavily wooded rural area in southern Mississippi, a man was brutally murdered while he casually sat on his porch smoking a cigarette. News of this act of violence sent shockwaves throughout the small country community, especially as friends of the murdered man learn the shocking truth about the identify of the number-one suspect.Murder on Murder Creek Roadis a suspenseful crime novel that follows the accused murderer, Priscilla Legendre, as she tries to remember what happened that fateful night. Priscilla will need the help of friends and estranged husband, Paul, as well as a private investigator to seek out clues and solve the mystery. Author Patricia Daspit looks into the heart of a troubled woman, struggling with her present circumstances as well as the demons from her past. If you love crime novels, you won't want to miss Murder on Murder Creek Road a complex, intriguing murder mystery that unfolds along the Gulf Coast of both Mississippi and Louisiana. This is a tantalizing, spellbinding plot that contains many twists and turns before finally revealing what really happened that night on Murder Creek Road.

Author : William Van Meter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1416564438

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By the lights of absolutely everyone who ever knew her, Katie Autry never harmed a hair on a dog's head. She came from a tiny village in Kentucky. The State moved her as a child into a foster home in a town so small it had one stoplight. New to her own beauty and a little awkward, Katie had the biggest smile on her high school cheerleading squad. In September 2002, she matriculated as a freshman at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She majored in the dental program, but as it was for many college students her age, partying was of equal priority. She worked days at the smoothie shop, nights at the local strip club, and fell in love with a football player who wouldn't date her. Five feet two in heels and without a bad word to say about anyone, Katie Autry was sweet, kind, and utterly naïve. She was making the clumsy strides of a newborn colt, discovering what the world was like and learning to be her own person. And on the morning of May 4, 2003, Katie Autry was raped, stabbed, sprayed with hairspray, and set on fire in her own dormitory room. In telling the true story of this shocking crime, Bluegrass describes the devastation of not one but three families. Two young men, whose lives seem preordained to intertwine, are jailed for the crime: DNA evidence places Stephen Soules, an unemployed, mixed-race high school dropout, atthe scene, and Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old pot dealer with an ex-wife, a girlfriend still in high school, and an inauspicious history of domestic abuse, is held by an ever-changing confession. The friends of the suspects and the foster and birth families of the victim form complex and warring social nets that are cast across town. And a small southern community, populated by eccentrics of every socioeconomic class, from dirt-poor to millionaire, responds to the horror. Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, this tale is redolent with atmosphere, dark tension, and lush landscapes. With the keen eye of a talented young journalist returning to his southern roots, Van Meter paints a vivid portrait of the town, the characters who fill it, and the simmering class conflicts that made an injustice like this not only possible, but inevitable.

Author : Darby O'Dell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2018-03-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781981500178

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Waterford is a little town tucked between the hills and valleys of North Carolina. A quiet and peaceful community disrupted when a man is found murdered near the bank of Stern Creek. The Waterford Police Department slowly gathers clues, but when one murder becomes two, the pieces begin to paint an unbelievable picture. Could there be a serial killer among the ranks?

Author : Jim Ryan
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780971821248

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The subject of the book was a Baptist Minister murdered his wife. He was hanged for the crime. This happened in 1858.

Author : Robert Barr Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806133539

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So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.

Author : Cole Younger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Many may wonder why an old "guerrilla" should feel called upon at this late day to rehearse the story of his life. On the eve of sixty, I come out into the world to find a hundred or more of books, of greater or less pretensions, purporting to be a history of "The Lives of the Younger Brothers," but which are all nothing more nor less than a lot of sensational recitals, with which the Younger brothers never had the least association. One publishing house alone is selling sixty varieties of these books, and I venture to say that in the whole lot there could not be found six pages of truth. The stage, too, has its lurid dramas in which we are painted in devilish blackness. It is therefore my purpose to give an authentic and absolutely correct history of the lives of the "Younger Brothers," in order that I may, if possible, counteract in some measure at least, the harm that has been done my brothers and myself, by the blood and thunder accounts of misdeeds, with which relentless sensationalists have charged us, but which have not even the suggestion of truth about them, though doubtless they have had everything to do with coloring public opinion. In this account I propose to set out the little good that was in my life, at the same time not withholding in any way the bad, with the hope of setting right before the world a family name once honored, but which has suffered disgrace by being charged with more evil deeds than were ever its rightful share.