Mi Bad : Robbers, Cutthroats And Thieves In Michigan'S Past And Present
Mission Point Press
ISBN13:
9781943995837
$16.95
Train robberies, stage-coach holdups, posses, breakouts and shoot-em-ups step out of the darker pages of Michigan's past and spring to life in Tom Carr's MI Bad: Robbers, Cutthroats and Thieves in Michigan's Past and Present. The Great Lakes State has seen more than its share of sensational crimes in the last couple of centuries. MI Bad shines a searchlight on several of the most jaw-dropping capers and rogues, including: - A couple of 1880s prostitution procurers who roll drunken lumberjacks for their wages in a whorehouse and bury bodies in shallow graves. The two die drunk and destitute in a freezing shack. - Baby Face Nelson gets his big-time career start -- with an actual baby -- in a bank holdup in Depression-era Grand Haven. - A 1970s, cinema-esque escape from Jackson State Prison that falls apart quickly once outside the razor wire. - Train robbing brothers who get away with fortunes all over the Midwest, until one of them puts a bullet in the head of a well-liked Grand Rapids cop. - A 1960s cop and a 2010s fifth-grade teacher break bad. - Huge posses of armed Michiganders rush out to help -- and sometimes hinder -- a bank stickup. - A 19th Century U.P. boomtown finally has enough of a brothel owner beating the women he holds captive. - Plus many more blood-and-money tales of Wolverine-state intrigue, suspense or just plain awfulness. MI Bad is author Tom Carr's follow-up to his successful, Michigan historical true crime debut, Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s-Present, also published by Mission Point Press/Chandler Lake Books.
- | Author: Tom Carr
- | Publisher: Mission Point Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 10, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 128 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1943995834
- | ISBN-13: 9781943995837
- Author:
- Tom Carr
- Publisher:
- Mission Point Press
- Publication Date:
- Sep 10, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 128 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1943995834
- ISBN-13:
- 9781943995837