Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Valentine's Day Murder
Chapter 1 Case #1: Valentine's Day Murder 1
Chapter 2 February 14, 2001 9
Chapter 3 The Scene of the Crime 13
Chapter 4 The Investigation 17
Chapter 5 Under Arrest 23
Chapter 6 Abusive Husband? 27
Chapter 7 Who Can Prove What? 31
Chapter 8 The Trial Begins 35
Chapter 9 The Case Against Dr. Hamilton 39
Chapter 10 The Defense 45
Chapter 11 The Verdict 53
Chapter 12 The Appeal 57
Clara Hamon, a Woman Scorned
Chapter 13 Case #2: Clara Hamon, a Woman Scorned 65
Chapter 14 Jake the Snake 67
Chapter 15 Clara and Success 71
Chapter 16 The 1920 Republican Convention 75
Chapter 17 Paying the Price 79
Chapter 18 The Lost Is Found 83
Chapter 19 Clara's Story 85
Chapter 20 The Rest of the Story 89
Chapter 21 The Surrender 91
Chapter 22 Trial Preparation 93
Chapter 23 The Trial Begins 95
Chapter 24 The Defense 103
Chapter 25 The Verdict 107
Chapter 26 What Next? 111
Roger Wheeler's Bad Investment
Chapter 27 Case #3: Roger Wheeler's Bad Investment 119
Chapter 28 Crime 121
Chapter 29 Roger Wheeler 125
Chapter 30 The Telex Roller Coaster 127
Chapter 31 World Jai Alai 131
Chapter 32 The Investigation Begins 135
Chapter 33 The Winter Hill Gang 137
Chapter 34 Bulger Takes Control 141
Chapter 35 The Investigation Continues 145
Chapter 36 Breakthrough 147
Chapter 37 The Wheeler Case 149
Chapter 38 Cleaning Up the Witnesses 153
Chapter 39 The End of the Gang 157
Chapter 40 On the Run 161
Chapter 41 Bulger Goes Down 165
Chapter 42 Aftermath 169
The Geronimo Bank Case
Chapter 43 Case #4: Geronimo Bank Case 177
Chapter 44 The Crime 179
Chapter 45 The Man for the Job 183
Chapter 46 The Timeline 189
Chapter 47 Bank-robbery Charges 193
Chapter 48 The Killers 197
Chapter 49 Preliminary Hearing 201
Chapter 50 The Trial 205
Chapter 51 The First Appeal and Related Foolishness 209
Chapter 52 Neill's Trial 213
Chapter 53 Johnson's Trial 217
Chapter 54 Further Appeals 223
The Death of Bill Tilghman
Chapter 55 Case #5: The Death of Bill Tilghman 231
Chapter 56 Frontier Days 233
Chapter 57 The Three Guardsmen 237
Chapter 58 The Wild Bunch 241
Chapter 59 Sheriff and Police Chief 245
Chapter 60 The Three Guardsmen Go Hollywood 249
Chapter 61 Cromwell 251
Chapter 62 Bloody Death 255
Chapter 63 Legal Maneuvering 261
Chapter 64 The Trial of Wiley Lynn 265
Chapter 65 Shoot-out in Madill 269
The Case of the Talking Pharmacist
Chapter 66 Case #6: The Case of the Talking Pharmacist 275
Chapter 67 The Talking Pharmacist 277
Chapter 68 The Surveillance Videos 281
Chapter 69 The Rubbers 283
Chapter 70 The Charge 285
Chapter 71 Bail 287
Chapter 72 Still Talking 291
Chapter 73 The Preliminary Hearing 295
Chapter 74 There Goes the Judge 299
Chapter 75 Two Rubbers Go to Court 303
Chapter 76 The Trial 305
Chapter 77 After the Verdict 315
Epilogue 319
Death, Oklahoma Style
Chapter 78 Case #7: Death, Oklahoma Style 327
Chapter 79 An Oklahoma Tradition 329
Chapter 80 The Lockett Case 333
Chapter 81 Lockett's Legal Mess 335
Chapter 82 You Can't Make This Stuff Up 339
Chapter 83 The Warner Case 343
Chapter 84 State v. Glossip 347
Chapter 85 Glossip v. Gross 351
Chapter 86 Don't Kill Glossip 355
Chapter 87 The Grand Jury's Report 361
Chapter 88 Recent Developments 365
Acknowledgments 369
Bibliography 370
About the Author 378
