Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as he was taken to St. Joseph, Mo., Killer Burke found that a half-dozen states were clamoring to try him on murder charges. Michigan wanted him for shooting down a St. Joseph policeman in cold blood while discussing a minor traffic accident, since which time Killer Burke had not been seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp...
...Nice, however, the sympathy of police and public was with the killer. Upon her pretty neck the French police surgeon found ugly red marks. They might have been caused, as Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger said they were, by her husband's attempting to strangle...
Doctor X. For reasons best known to himself, Dr. X, the criminologist, has assembled five total strangers who were once shipwrecked, it being his contention that the perpetrator of a shocking series of recent murders once experienced disaster at sea. Unfortunately, the good doctor neglects to include the real killer among his suspects. As a result, while the party is witnessing the re-enacting of the crime and being subjected to various guilt-detecting machines, quite a few people are slain. The play includes, of course, one lunatic, one scary maid, two lovers. Doctor X is not a first-rate...
...Cherokees and Iroquois almost wiped each other out fighting for its possession. Toward the end of the last century the primitive descendants of white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans in Breathitt County were the Callahans and the Hargises. Chief killer for the Hargises was Curt Jett, a lanky, pork-eating, whiskey-drinking hothead. He became known as the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced...
...John Franklyn ("Killer Frank") Norris's radio station KSAT at Fort Worth...