Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang

In 1934, a band of desperadoes known as the Ghost Gang terrorized bankers across the state of Nebraska with a series of daring robberies. A posse of lawmen traced the gang to a Gage County ghost town, and the hideout was raided on a cold November night. One by one, all the members of the gang faced prison or death, until only Maurice Denning remained at large. Denning, the son of a respectable farm family, had drifted into bootlegging and, ultimately, bank robbery. For ten years, he was at the top of the FBI's list of Public Enemies, but incredibly, he was never found. Although rumors about his whereabouts swirled for decades, his final fate remains a mystery. In this book, writer and researcher Brian James Beerman brings the fascinating true story of the most wanted man in Nebraska back to light and recounts the circumstances surrounding his mysterious disappearance.
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Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang

In 1934, a band of desperadoes known as the Ghost Gang terrorized bankers across the state of Nebraska with a series of daring robberies. A posse of lawmen traced the gang to a Gage County ghost town, and the hideout was raided on a cold November night. One by one, all the members of the gang faced prison or death, until only Maurice Denning remained at large. Denning, the son of a respectable farm family, had drifted into bootlegging and, ultimately, bank robbery. For ten years, he was at the top of the FBI's list of Public Enemies, but incredibly, he was never found. Although rumors about his whereabouts swirled for decades, his final fate remains a mystery. In this book, writer and researcher Brian James Beerman brings the fascinating true story of the most wanted man in Nebraska back to light and recounts the circumstances surrounding his mysterious disappearance.
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Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang

Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang

by Brian Beerman
Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang

Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang

by Brian Beerman

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In 1934, a band of desperadoes known as the Ghost Gang terrorized bankers across the state of Nebraska with a series of daring robberies. A posse of lawmen traced the gang to a Gage County ghost town, and the hideout was raided on a cold November night. One by one, all the members of the gang faced prison or death, until only Maurice Denning remained at large. Denning, the son of a respectable farm family, had drifted into bootlegging and, ultimately, bank robbery. For ten years, he was at the top of the FBI's list of Public Enemies, but incredibly, he was never found. Although rumors about his whereabouts swirled for decades, his final fate remains a mystery. In this book, writer and researcher Brian James Beerman brings the fascinating true story of the most wanted man in Nebraska back to light and recounts the circumstances surrounding his mysterious disappearance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467143127
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 08/19/2019
Series: True Crime
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author


Born and raised in Nebraska, Brian James Beerman is a graphic artist, writer and researcher. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

Prologue. Nebraska's Public Enemy No. 1 5

1 A Bank Robbery in Broad Daylight 7

2 The Ghost City Bandits 13

3 The Dillinger Trail 21

4 Always a Good Boy 31

5 This Is a Holdup! 41

6 As Tough as They Make 'Em 50

7 It's a Raid! 57

8 A Man Called George 63

9 Evelyn 73

10 Gangbusters 85

11 Last of the Ghost Gang 99

12 Murder on Alcatraz 113

13 Gone by Way of Sandusky 122

Epilogue. Rest in Peace 135

Acknowledgements 141

Notes 143

Index 155

About the Author 159

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