| Crimes & Capers of the Northwest Contributor(s): Goss, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 1926677528 ISBN-13: 9781926677521 Publisher: Folklore Publishing OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) |
| Dewey: 364.109 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.26" W x 8.22" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Washington - Geographic Orientation - Oregon - Geographic Orientation - Idaho |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Crimes and Capers of the Northwest is a rascal-laden romp through Washington, Oregon and Idaho of high-profile crimes and quirky capers that have taken place in both the most recent and the distant past: * Linda Burfield Hazzard pretended to be a doctor -- a ''fasting specialist'' -- who convinced her patients to starve themselves to death so she could profit from them * Clarence Dayton Hillman, a real estate manipulator, hired actors and staged fake scenery to lure unsuspecting customers into buying inferior land * Keith Hunter Jesperson was a truck driver and serial killer known as ''The Happy Face Killer'' because of the way he signed his letters to the media * William Dainard was a bumbling fool, yet he kidnapped nine-year-old George Weyerhauser of the Weyerhauser Timber Company off the street in the middle of the day and got George's father to pay a $200,000 ransom * Ted Bundy killed as many as 40 women throughout the Northwest states between 1974 and 1978; his favorite hunting grounds were college campuses * Mary Kay Letourneau, a married 34-year-old schoolteacher, fell in love with her 13-year-old student and had two children with him; after being imprisoned for six years as a child sex offender, the two married. * And more. |