Nikita Gomes·Sep 2The Angel of Death: Frederick Tenuto, the Three Escapes, and the Fourteen Years the FBI Spent…Frederick Tenuto escaped from Eastern State Penitentiary through a tunnel in April 1945 with eleven other men including Willie Sutton. Ten…
Nikita Gomes·Aug 20The Old Man of the Mountains: Glen Roy Wright, the Karpis-Barker Era, and the Life Sentence He…Glen Roy Wright ran with one of the most dangerous criminal gangs in Depression-era America and survived two separate gun battles with…
Nikita Gomes·Aug 19Ken Van Kempen: The Missouri Farm Boy Who Stole a Car at Eighteen and Spent the Next Forty Years…Orba Elmer Jackson stole his first car in Joplin, Missouri in 1924 and the prison system spent the next twenty-three years teaching him…
Nikita Gomes·Jul 2You Better Give Me My Pay: Morley Vernon King, the Trunk Under the Porch, and the Calmest Arrest in…The FBI agents entered the kitchen so quietly that fifteen diners in the restaurant next door had no idea anything was happening. Morley…
