Bücher von Tobin T. Buhk

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. This book follows Lunt's trail from the Santa Cruz police department to the San Quentin State Prison, and covers his friendships with a series of death row inmates.

The shocking series of crimes committed by Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the front pages in 1949. Caught for a double homicide in Michigan, they became the focus of an intense debate over the death penalty. Drawing on rare archival material, this book presents, a detailed account of the ""Lonely Hearts Killers"".

In January 1889, as theatres presented renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer. This book follows Boyle to gaslight-era Detroit and describes the investigation that led him to a pharmacist that prowled the streets, akin to a real-life Jekyll and Hyde.