Skyler Saunders
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Reason First: The Murdered Man Just Wanted to be a Playboy
A man in blue silk pajamas laid out on the floor motionless and unresponsive. The man on the deck claimed the name Serge Rubinstein. This financial mastermind also lived life as a playboy and denizen of Café society. In his years he had generated a fortune of at least a million dollars and almost as many enemies.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Why Did Barbara ‘Bloody Babs’ Graham Ruin Her Mind?
The gas chamber as capital punishment in America saw its first case in Nevada against Gee Jon in 1924. Law enforcement officials pumped gas into his cell but this yielded no desired effect. Authorities used cyanide to execute him. Until 1999, sulfuric acid remained in a pail at the inmate’s feet. The mixture of the two chemicals produced hydrogen cyanide gas. This is not his story, though. And this isn’t an expose on different forms of execution. This is the sad, sweet tale of Barbara Graham.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Was Wayne Lonergan Found Guilty Because he was Allegedly Gay?
There’s power in the press. The record of what occurs is something that grips nearly everyone in the world. With the case of Wayne Lonergan in 1943, the leak of an interview exacerbated the situation. This is before 24-hour cable news channels, Twitter and Instagram and YouTube and other social media sites and video services. So, this was a major development in Lonergan’s case.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Theodore Edward Coneys Spun a Web of Murder
Before the late Marvel creative minds behind Spider-Man conceived of this figure, there was another spiderman but he existed as no hero. Theodore Edward Coneys , in 1941, was definitely no Anne Frank either who’s fame would rise in the coming years. But he did take on the moniker “The Denver Spider Man of Moncrieff Place” and hid in an attic for nine months.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Murderer Rainey Bethea Requested to Have Off His Shoes Before His Execution
It took at least fifteen minutes for Rainey Bethea to be strangled to death before a crowd numbering past 15,000. For what reason did Bethea hang from the platform in Owensboro, Kentucky that August 14, 1936 day? Bethea had been charged with rape which brought with it a penalty of hanging. He swung from the scaffold as the last person to be publicly executed in the state of Kentucky.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Murderer Giuseppe Zangara Just Wanted to Ride ‘Old Sparky’
Capitalism is the political-economic social system of justice. The irony that is inherent in the story of murderer Giuseppe Zangara, a complete collectivist and altruist, is that he attempted to kill one of the most anti-capitalist figures of all time, then President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Instead of forever silencing the future 32nd president of the United States of America, he inadvertently struck Chicago mayor Tony Cermak in the lung, killing him.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Trunk Murderess Pleaded for Forgiveness
“Doing the nasty” is a misnomer. The act of sex is a physical and spiritual celebration of values and of life itself. The nasty should be reserved for murderers like Winnie Ruth Judd. This “Tiger Woman” brutally murdered two women out of jealousy.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Fred Burke and the Tale of the Thug With No Purpose
Coincidentally, Fred Burke’s birth took place on a farm and he was captured by police on another farm years later. Why did the authorities nab Burke? Firstly, Burke’s brush with the law came in 1910 at the age of 17. Upon reentry into the United States after serving in the Army, police arrested him and the judge sentenced him to a one year bid behind bars.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Henry Colin Campbell and the Case of the Alleged Forgetful Murderer
Amnesia became a point of contention in the trial of Henry Colin Campbell. Actually, judge Clarence E. Case shot down this defense. All of this stemmed from the murder of Mildred Mowry on Saturday February 23, 1929. Police discovered her burnt body with a bullet in her skull along a roadway in Cranford, New Jersey. It took multiple weeks before investigators identified the remains as Mowry’s.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Ruthless Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray
The fascination with the cases of murder will forever inspire painters, playewrights, novelists, screenwriters, and non-fiction authors. In a case like Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the two culprits would inspire all of these artists and writers to paint the grim picture of a sour marriage and a forbidden tryst.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: An Ideal Place
To see the destruction of racism is to see collectivism in its most vicious form dissolved. In the United States, the land of sweet freedom, the desire for the taste of liberty has soured on the black race the most. The ugliness of slavery created a kettle for the flames of injustice to continue to burn. That kettle was overturned during the Civil War but the blaze continues through the years.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in The Swamp
