This book builds on the public domain writings of journalists Edwin Strickland and Gene Wortsman, leveraging their research to support information provided to journalist H. L. Arledge in interviews with former residents of Phenix City and entertainers working in Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana, among them: Stacey Lawrence, Kitty West, Suzanne Robbins, Blaze Starr, Frieda LaBreche, and Evelyn West.

More Bayou Justice: South Louisiana Cold Case FilesMore cold case murder mysteries and true crime histories with mafia hits, prostitution, klan kidnappings, cult rituals, jealous pimps, and missing girls gone wild in the land of gators, gumbo, strippers, hurricanes, mardi gras, and voodoo.More Bayou Justice from investigative journalist and broadcaster HL ArledgeLouisiana's foremost expert on true-c...

Bayou Justice Book 3: More Louisiana True Crime StoriesMore cold case murder mysteries and true crime histories with mafia hits, unsolved murders, crooked politics, missing persons, cult rituals, lost gold, and missing girls gone wild in the land of gators, gumbo, strippers, hurricanes, mardi gras, and voodoo.More Bayou Justice from investigative journalist and broadcaster HL ArledgeLouisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a t...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.I...

The New York Times BestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high schoo...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to ...

"An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States." — New York TimesFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardSolitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana's notorious Angola pri...

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancée. She described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looked at Jeff and asked, "What can you do?"Fifty years later, Haas finds that there is still an urgent need for the revolutionary systemic changes Hampton w...

"This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its best. I couldn't put it down." —Susan Furlong, author of the Bone Gap Travellers novelsA modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, an...

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive account of the case. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the ...

The latest in the New York Times Bestselling Notorious USA series...South Carolina, where racial strife and righteous, heavily-armed indignation leads to murder. New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother brings readers compilation of crime stories from this former Confederate state: the first woman in South Carolina to go to the electric chair after a vengeful feud over a dead calf turned fatal; the state’s most prolific serial killer who managed to kill a f...

Devils Walking stands as an important milestone in the ongoing struggle to create justice from truth, and perhaps even reconciliation in a nation that must collectively move in this direction or face an uncertain future.”—David Ridgen, Canadian filmmaker and director of award-winning documentary Mississippi Cold CaseAfter midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and ...