True Crime Philadelphia by Kathryn Canavan (.ePUB)
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True Crime Philadelphia: From America’s First Bank Robbery to the Real-life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire by Kathryn Canavan
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Overview: Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-life killers who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire lived and died here.
America’s first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country’s first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot in U.S. history in the 1930s. His partners in crime were unhappy housewives.
Catholics and Protestants aimed cannon at each other in city streets in 1844. Civil rights hero Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street in 1871.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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