California's Most Notorious Crimes

1950-1999

By:

Margaret Laplante

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Paperback / softback

Series:

America Through Time

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California is known as the "Golden State." However, it is has been said that "all that glitters is not gold." Within the pages of this book are true stories including the murder of a family for a 7.5-million-dollar inheritance, and a landlady accused of murdering seven tenants and burying them in her yard. Read about the murders of twenty-five farm workers buried in peach orchards, and a child who was murdered and buried in a pet cemetery. There is the case of the man wanted in forty-three states for passing half-a-million dollars in fraudulent checks using 350 aliases. Also, within the book are the true stories of how twenty-six children and their school bus driver were buried alive, and how a simple shoplifting incident led to a bunker hidden in the woods where forty-five pounds of charred human remains were found. California mafia figures, "The Mick" and the "Capone of Los Angeles," are featured in this book, along with an espionage case that resulted in more than a million top military secrets sold to the Soviet Union.

Author Biography:

MARGARET LAPLANTE is a historian who lives in southern Oregon. Her other books for America Through Time include: A Unique Southern Oregon; Abandoned Jackson County; Abandoned Chinatowns Northern California; Unique Oregon; Oregon's Most Notorious Crimes 1900-1955 .

Release date NZ

March 27th, 2023

Author

Margaret Laplante

Series

America Through Time

Pages

160

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

154x254x12

ISBN-13

9781634994491

Product ID

36522758

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