The Murder Factory

Author : Jack Doyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537541815
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murder Factory written by Jack Doyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Archer Gilligan is believed to have killed at least 60 people in the rest home she owned between 1907 and 1917, with 48 of those occurring in the 5-year period between 1911 and 1916. Due to the nature of the industry, however, it was some years before local investigators began to ask serious questions about the exorbitantly high death rate coming from the Archer Home...Little did they know, she was becoming one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Author : Alexandra Midal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3956795431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murder Factory written by Alexandra Midal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods. In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudget, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of crimes. To carry out his activities quietly, he built in Chicago a building so vast that his neighbors called it the “Château.” Located just a stone's throw from the most sophisticated slaughterhouses in the world, lethal, practical, and comfortable, Holmes's building was equipped with the latest innovations. A rational, cozy masterpiece of crime dressed in slippers, Holmes's project fit perfectly into the functionalist project of the modern world. In The Murder Factory, Alexandra Midal examines the almost simultaneous emergence of the industrial revolution and the figure of the serial killer. Far from being a coincidence, it marks the rationality of new production methods—of which the assembly line and serial murder are two expressions. In the Holmes case, an antihero of modern history can shed light on the treatment of living things brought about by this economic, mechanical, and cultural revolution. H. H. Holmes's confessions, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer just before his execution in April 1896, follow Midal's text.

Author : Alexandra Midal
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 3956795431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murder Factory written by Alexandra Midal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods. In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudget, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of crimes. To carry out his activities quietly, he built in Chicago a building so vast that his neighbors called it the “Château.” Located just a stone's throw from the most sophisticated slaughterhouses in the world, lethal, practical, and comfortable, Holmes's building was equipped with the latest innovations. A rational, cozy masterpiece of crime dressed in slippers, Holmes's project fit perfectly into the functionalist project of the modern world. In The Murder Factory, Alexandra Midal examines the almost simultaneous emergence of the industrial revolution and the figure of the serial killer. Far from being a coincidence, it marks the rationality of new production methods—of which the assembly line and serial murder are two expressions. In the Holmes case, an antihero of modern history can shed light on the treatment of living things brought about by this economic, mechanical, and cultural revolution. H. H. Holmes's confessions, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer just before his execution in April 1896, follow Midal's text.

Author : Sheldon H. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134827512
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Factories of Death written by Sheldon H. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh evidence from newly released sources clarifies the shocking story of Japanese human experiments in Manchuria during the War, and reveals the true extent of the subsequent US cover-up.

Author : Marshall Karp
Publisher : Mesa Films, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1736379259
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rabbit Factory written by Marshall Karp and published by Mesa Films, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in this fast-paced, laugh-out-loud crime series featuring LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs finds the duo investigating the murder of the actor playing Rambunctious Rabbit, the mascot of Lamaar Studio's Familyland theme park. As more Lamaar employees are brutally killed, Lomax and Biggs must race to expose a conspiracy hell-bent on destroying the entertainment conglomerate.

Author : M. William Phelps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762762500
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil's Rooming House written by M. William Phelps and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. “Sister Amy” would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace. The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.

Author : Nate Taylor
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781792787225
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willy Wonka & the Death Factory Part 2 written by Nate Taylor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the events of "Willy Wonka & The Death Factory: The Golden Ticket," Charlie returns home to find that he isn't the boy he once was.

Author : Ronald Barri Flowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546352198
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Pencil Factory: the Killing of Mary Phagan 100 Years Later (a True Crime Short) written by Ronald Barri Flowers and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of The Pickaxe Killers and The Sex Slave Murders, comes a powerful new historical true crime short, Murder at the Pencil Factory: The Killing of Mary Phagan 100 Years Later.On the afternoon of April 26, 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan arrived at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where she worked, to pick up her paycheck.The next day, Mary's bloody, battered, and bruised dead body was found in the basement of the pencil factory, the victim of foul play. The Jewish-American factory superintendent Leo Frank was arrested, tried, and convicted for the murder in a controversial trial. Frank himself became the victim of a lynch mob, when they broke him out of prison and hung him from a tree.But was Leo Frank truly guilty of Mary Phagan's violent death? Or did the real killer get away with cold-blooded murder? Read this compelling tale of child murder, anti-Semitism, racism, and legal twists and turns that rival any true crime case today and decide for yourself.Included is a complete and riveting bonus story from the bestselling true crime book, Serial Killer Couples, by R. Barri Flowers, in which ruthless killers Alvin and Judith Neelley abducted thirteen-year-old Lisa Millican from a mall in Rome, Georgia, and sexually violated, tortured, and murdered her.An added bonus is an excerpt from the author's bestselling true crime short, The Pickaxe Killers: Karla Faye Tucker and Daniel Garrett, who brutally murdered two people in a death penalty crime that shocked the nation.

Author : Greg Iles
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062336681
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death Factory written by Greg Iles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy—Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—comes this e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from Natchez Burning. Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. When a heart attack sends Penn's father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request—keeping his secrets for another day. The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA's office known as the "death factory," which sent more killers to death row than any other in America. While Penn cares for his ailing wife, a tormented forensic technician brings him evidence of a crime lab in chaos, throwing past convictions into doubt and begging Penn to prevent an imminent travesty of justice. With the desperation of a man fighting death in his own home, Penn must find a way to bring the machinery of the death factory to a halt.

Author : Robert Loerzel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252055934
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alchemy of Bones written by Robert Loerzel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Luetgert case, with its missing victim, once-prosperous suspect, and all manner of gruesome theories regarding the disposal of the corpse, turned into one of the first media-fueled celebrity trials in American history. Newspapers fought one another for scoops, people across the country claimed to have seen the missing woman alive, and each new clue led to fresh rounds of speculation about the crime. Meanwhile, sausage sales plummeted nationwide as rumors circulated that Luetgert had destroyed his wife's body in one of his factory's meat grinders. Weaving in strange-but-true subplots involving hypnotists, palmreaders, English con artists, bullied witnesses, and insane-asylum bodysnatchers, Alchemy of Bones is more than just a true crime narrative; it is a grand, sprawling portrait of 1890s Chicago--and a nation--getting an early taste of the dark, chaotic twentieth century.