Murder and Mayhem on the Main Street of America: Tales from Bloody 66

by Jim Hinckley

Overview

It was billed as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road. It was a highway of commerce, both legal and illicit. It was traveled by vacationing families and serial killers, truck drivers and celebrities, vagabonds and gangsters, the weary and the wicked. It was the hunting grounds of criminals and the battlegrounds of racial violence and gangland strife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940322261
Publisher:	Rio Nuevo Publishers
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jim Hinckley has shared his passions for travel and the people met along the way, automotive history, and a lifelong association with Route 66 through nineteen books, countless feature articles, and international presentations. Jim Hinckley s America, a multifaceted platform of books, interviews, blog, Facebook page and group, YouTube channel, presentations, travel planning service, podcast, and tourism developments, encourages people to travel and explore. In addition to serving on the economic development committee for the Route 66 Road Partnership initiative, Jim works with Kingman, Arizona-based MyMarketing Designs to create a linked promotional network for business and communities (Promote Kingman, Kingman Tourism, Promote Route 66, etc.). He also develops presentations that foster awareness of tourism importance in the development of long-term economic plans for communities.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Illinois: Murder and Mayhem in the Land of Lincoln 3

Chapter 2 Missouri: Bloody 66 in the Show Me State 40

Chapter 3 Kansas: Miners & Disasters 77

Chapter 4 Oklahoma: Where the West Begins 92

Chapter 5 Texas: Death on the Double Six in the Lone Star State 143

Chapter 6 New Mexico: Dark Deeds in the Land of Enchantment 162

Chapter 7 Arizona: Land of Contrasts and Murder 185

Chapter 8 California: Dark Side of the Promised Land 214

Conclusion 233

Suggested Readings 234

Acknowledgments 234

About the Author 235

Index 236