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From midnight to guntown [[electronic resource] ] : true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / / John Hailman
| From midnight to guntown [[electronic resource] ] : true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / / John Hailman |
| Autore | Hailman John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (449 p.) |
| Disciplina | 364.1092/2762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Crime - Mississippi - History
Criminals - Mississippi - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-62103-953-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Common Law Enforcement Abbreviations and Acronyms; Prologue: The Making of a Career Prosecutor; Courtroom Rat in Paris and London; New Orleans; Law Clerk; Life with a Federal Judge; Georgetown Law School; Senator Stennis; Washington Lawyer; 1. Bank Robbers I've Known; My Favorite Crime; Peacelover Shabazz: The Nation of Islam Comes to Greenville; Sorry about That Bum Rap, Johnny Paul; A Running Robber: George of the Swamp; A Teller's Life Is Saved by Robber Incompetence; No Further Questions in Mound Bayou; A Preacher in a Volvo Robs an Oxford Bank
Full-Service BankersAt Last a Professional: Presidential Mask Bank Robber Caught in Our District; Try It Again, Frank; Thunder Eagle Ghost Dancer Launders His Loot; A Stuttering Bank Robber; Another Aberdeen Soap Opera and a Pair of Girbaud Jeans; You Busy This Weekend?; Would You Like Biscuits with That?; The Honey Bun Bandit; 2. Corruption in Positions of Trust: Lawyers, Judges, Supervisors, Sheriffs; Introduction; Federal versus State Prosecution; Harvey Hamilton: The Old Peg-Legged Sheriff Meets RICO Jury Tampering 101: A Sheriff Solicits Help from U.S. Senator James O. "Big Jim" Eastland"Will Renfro, You Can't Hit an FBI Man!"; John Grisham Sr. and the Wobbly Wagon; Operation Pretense: We Become "Mississippi's Untouchables"; Courtroom Observers Attend the Trial of a Black Supervisor; Opposing Former Chief Judge J. P. Coleman before His Own Court; The Chicken House Caper; "It's Hard to Tell the Truth When There's So Much Truth to Tell"; A Delta Lawyer; A Little Bitta Justice; The Mississippi Beef Plant Fiasco: Slaughterhouse for Taxpayers Dickie Scruggs: The Dark Side of Robin Hood Is Revealed When His Merry Men Sue for a Bigger Share of the Loot3. Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs; Introduction; A High Sheriff Goes Wild; Burning Crosses in the Night; Stopping the Arsons of Black Churches; The Other Jake Gibbs; Lanny "Junior" Cummings, Mesomorph; Getting the Blues on Parchman Farm; Coldest Case of All: Reopening the Murder of Emmett Till and What We Learned; 4. Killers and Wannabes; Introduction; The Shooting of Senator John Stennis; The Ku Klux Klan Tries to Murder Charles Evers, Brother of Medgar The Lampkin Brothers: I'm Assaulted in Chambers"Riverboat" Gaines; Jerry and Terry, the Hit Man Twins; Mississippian Jeff Fort Becomes the Angel of Fear, Leader of the El Rukns, Chicago's Most Dangerous Gang since Al Capone; The Shaw Boys Contract to Have a Judge Killed; Protected Witnesses: Marion Albert "Mad Dog" Pruett; Linda Leedom and the Chinese Wall; Killing the Killer of Sheriff Harold Ray Presley; The Tohills of Beaumont; Murder by Moonlight: The Natchez Trace Sniper; 5. Faraway Places with Strange-Sounding Names: The Age of Terror; Introduction Alice El-Sarji: "Not without My Daughters," an International Parental Kidnapping |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462883403321 |
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| Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From midnight to guntown [[electronic resource] ] : true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / / John Hailman
| From midnight to guntown [[electronic resource] ] : true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / / John Hailman |
| Autore | Hailman John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (449 p.) |
| Disciplina | 364.1092/2762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Crime - Mississippi - History
Criminals - Mississippi - History |
| ISBN | 1-62103-953-6 |
| Classificazione | TRU000000LAW061000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Common Law Enforcement Abbreviations and Acronyms; Prologue: The Making of a Career Prosecutor; Courtroom Rat in Paris and London; New Orleans; Law Clerk; Life with a Federal Judge; Georgetown Law School; Senator Stennis; Washington Lawyer; 1. Bank Robbers I've Known; My Favorite Crime; Peacelover Shabazz: The Nation of Islam Comes to Greenville; Sorry about That Bum Rap, Johnny Paul; A Running Robber: George of the Swamp; A Teller's Life Is Saved by Robber Incompetence; No Further Questions in Mound Bayou; A Preacher in a Volvo Robs an Oxford Bank
Full-Service BankersAt Last a Professional: Presidential Mask Bank Robber Caught in Our District; Try It Again, Frank; Thunder Eagle Ghost Dancer Launders His Loot; A Stuttering Bank Robber; Another Aberdeen Soap Opera and a Pair of Girbaud Jeans; You Busy This Weekend?; Would You Like Biscuits with That?; The Honey Bun Bandit; 2. Corruption in Positions of Trust: Lawyers, Judges, Supervisors, Sheriffs; Introduction; Federal versus State Prosecution; Harvey Hamilton: The Old Peg-Legged Sheriff Meets RICO Jury Tampering 101: A Sheriff Solicits Help from U.S. Senator James O. "Big Jim" Eastland"Will Renfro, You Can't Hit an FBI Man!"; John Grisham Sr. and the Wobbly Wagon; Operation Pretense: We Become "Mississippi's Untouchables"; Courtroom Observers Attend the Trial of a Black Supervisor; Opposing Former Chief Judge J. P. Coleman before His Own Court; The Chicken House Caper; "It's Hard to Tell the Truth When There's So Much Truth to Tell"; A Delta Lawyer; A Little Bitta Justice; The Mississippi Beef Plant Fiasco: Slaughterhouse for Taxpayers Dickie Scruggs: The Dark Side of Robin Hood Is Revealed When His Merry Men Sue for a Bigger Share of the Loot3. Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs; Introduction; A High Sheriff Goes Wild; Burning Crosses in the Night; Stopping the Arsons of Black Churches; The Other Jake Gibbs; Lanny "Junior" Cummings, Mesomorph; Getting the Blues on Parchman Farm; Coldest Case of All: Reopening the Murder of Emmett Till and What We Learned; 4. Killers and Wannabes; Introduction; The Shooting of Senator John Stennis; The Ku Klux Klan Tries to Murder Charles Evers, Brother of Medgar The Lampkin Brothers: I'm Assaulted in Chambers"Riverboat" Gaines; Jerry and Terry, the Hit Man Twins; Mississippian Jeff Fort Becomes the Angel of Fear, Leader of the El Rukns, Chicago's Most Dangerous Gang since Al Capone; The Shaw Boys Contract to Have a Judge Killed; Protected Witnesses: Marion Albert "Mad Dog" Pruett; Linda Leedom and the Chinese Wall; Killing the Killer of Sheriff Harold Ray Presley; The Tohills of Beaumont; Murder by Moonlight: The Natchez Trace Sniper; 5. Faraway Places with Strange-Sounding Names: The Age of Terror; Introduction Alice El-Sarji: "Not without My Daughters," an International Parental Kidnapping |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786255003321 |
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Hailman John
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| Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / / John Hailman
| Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / / John Hailman |
| Autore | Hailman John R. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
| Disciplina | 345.73/0709762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Crime - Mississippi - History
Criminals - Mississippi - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4968-0325-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Prologue: The Making of a Career Prosecutor; Some Useful Law Enforcement Acronyms; 1. Guns, Bombs, and Moonshine Whiskey; Introduction; Slick Jamison and the Dixie Mafia; An Infernal Machine; Poison Moonshine and Love among the Jurors; Bluebeard, or Murder with a Balpeen Hammer; My First Time in the Fifth Circus; "Not without My Daughter's Teeth"; A Modern-Day Train Robbery Is Averted; Batesville Boys in a Cajun Bomb Conspiracy; Running Guns to Chicago; Memphis Medical Examiner O. C. Smith, Crucified; A Japanese Prosecutor Comes to Oxford
2. Drug Lords Have Troubles TooIntroduction; From Law Enforcement Major to Cocaine Kingpin: Charlie Cook of Oxford; Mexican Air Smuggling: A Stolen Jet, a Ton of Weed, and a Dead Tarantula; Lt. Shirlene Anderson Saves the Life of Agent Elbert Craig; "Stepper" Dotson Loses His Girlfriend-and His Rolls Royce; College-Educated Drug Kingpins Go Corporate, Still Get Caught; Two Dinners in the Big Easy in One Night? With a Mormon Bishop?; 3. Crime Victims Fight Back; Introduction; A Creepy Extortionist: Letters from the Rat; Pistol Packin' Sisters of Yalobusha County "I Fought the Law and the Law Won"Wild Justice: A Drunken Dove Hunt Turns Violent; Arson in the Delta: The Near-sighted Mr. Magoo as Eyewitness; Only the Lonely; Secret Agent Man: "We're Givin' You a Number and Takin' Away Your Name"; The Snakeman: "Satanist Pimp Seeks Fair Trial in Mississippi"; "You Can't Rape Your Wife, Can You?"; A Victim Stays Strong; A Victim Stays Smart; Zulu Justice in Old New Orleans; Project Safe Neighborhoods: A Victim City Fights Back against Violent Street Gangs; 4. "Mere Theft"; Introduction; Cyber Crime: "Circling Our Cyber Wagons" to Become "Paradigm Busters" A California FBI Agent Discovers Conway Twitty's Lounge at Moon LakeDooksie and the Hot Cadillacs; The World's Sorriest Thief Steals from Hurricane Katrina Victims; The Royal Saudi Chicken Caper: "Young Chickens, Easily Grilled or Broiled"; The Lady from Red Fox Defeats a Municipal Bond Scam; Federal Judges or "Wine-Sippin' Servants of Satan"?; Bank Robbers: A Breed of Thieves Slightly Apart; A Piece of Cake or Police Entrapment?; An Unusual Sentencing; Just Like in the Movies: The "Maggot" Family; 5. Fancy Frauds; Introduction; In Geneva, Penetrating Swiss Bank Secrecy A Pious Fraud: "Only the Lord Knows the Depth of Your Pocketbook"A Classic Nigerian Scam: "We Have a Secret Process"; "Staggering, Slobbering, Delirium, and Death": The Largest Cattle-Poisoning in US History Is Narrowly Averted; Welcome to Libya; "I'm a Surgeon for the CIA"; The Chicago Mob Comes to Grenada, Meets Prosecutor Jim Letten; And Sexual Enhancement for All: "Bustin' Loose" Brings Gender Equity to Telemarketing Fraud; The Health Care Fraud Follies: Chiropractors Ahoy; Really Extreme Couponing; The Sweet Life (for a While) of a Big-Time Bookie Guntown Corners the Market with Over 20 Million in Contraband Cigarettes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460839503321 |
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Hailman John R. <1942->
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| Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / / John Hailman
| Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / / John Hailman |
| Autore | Hailman John R. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
| Disciplina | 345.73/0709762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Crime - Mississippi - History
Criminals - Mississippi - History |
| ISBN | 1-4968-0325-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Prologue: The Making of a Career Prosecutor; Some Useful Law Enforcement Acronyms; 1. Guns, Bombs, and Moonshine Whiskey; Introduction; Slick Jamison and the Dixie Mafia; An Infernal Machine; Poison Moonshine and Love among the Jurors; Bluebeard, or Murder with a Balpeen Hammer; My First Time in the Fifth Circus; "Not without My Daughter's Teeth"; A Modern-Day Train Robbery Is Averted; Batesville Boys in a Cajun Bomb Conspiracy; Running Guns to Chicago; Memphis Medical Examiner O. C. Smith, Crucified; A Japanese Prosecutor Comes to Oxford
2. Drug Lords Have Troubles TooIntroduction; From Law Enforcement Major to Cocaine Kingpin: Charlie Cook of Oxford; Mexican Air Smuggling: A Stolen Jet, a Ton of Weed, and a Dead Tarantula; Lt. Shirlene Anderson Saves the Life of Agent Elbert Craig; "Stepper" Dotson Loses His Girlfriend-and His Rolls Royce; College-Educated Drug Kingpins Go Corporate, Still Get Caught; Two Dinners in the Big Easy in One Night? With a Mormon Bishop?; 3. Crime Victims Fight Back; Introduction; A Creepy Extortionist: Letters from the Rat; Pistol Packin' Sisters of Yalobusha County "I Fought the Law and the Law Won"Wild Justice: A Drunken Dove Hunt Turns Violent; Arson in the Delta: The Near-sighted Mr. Magoo as Eyewitness; Only the Lonely; Secret Agent Man: "We're Givin' You a Number and Takin' Away Your Name"; The Snakeman: "Satanist Pimp Seeks Fair Trial in Mississippi"; "You Can't Rape Your Wife, Can You?"; A Victim Stays Strong; A Victim Stays Smart; Zulu Justice in Old New Orleans; Project Safe Neighborhoods: A Victim City Fights Back against Violent Street Gangs; 4. "Mere Theft"; Introduction; Cyber Crime: "Circling Our Cyber Wagons" to Become "Paradigm Busters" A California FBI Agent Discovers Conway Twitty's Lounge at Moon LakeDooksie and the Hot Cadillacs; The World's Sorriest Thief Steals from Hurricane Katrina Victims; The Royal Saudi Chicken Caper: "Young Chickens, Easily Grilled or Broiled"; The Lady from Red Fox Defeats a Municipal Bond Scam; Federal Judges or "Wine-Sippin' Servants of Satan"?; Bank Robbers: A Breed of Thieves Slightly Apart; A Piece of Cake or Police Entrapment?; An Unusual Sentencing; Just Like in the Movies: The "Maggot" Family; 5. Fancy Frauds; Introduction; In Geneva, Penetrating Swiss Bank Secrecy A Pious Fraud: "Only the Lord Knows the Depth of Your Pocketbook"A Classic Nigerian Scam: "We Have a Secret Process"; "Staggering, Slobbering, Delirium, and Death": The Largest Cattle-Poisoning in US History Is Narrowly Averted; Welcome to Libya; "I'm a Surgeon for the CIA"; The Chicago Mob Comes to Grenada, Meets Prosecutor Jim Letten; And Sexual Enhancement for All: "Bustin' Loose" Brings Gender Equity to Telemarketing Fraud; The Health Care Fraud Follies: Chiropractors Ahoy; Really Extreme Couponing; The Sweet Life (for a While) of a Big-Time Bookie Guntown Corners the Market with Over 20 Million in Contraband Cigarettes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797972103321 |
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Hailman John R. <1942->
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| Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / / John Hailman
| Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / / John Hailman |
| Autore | Hailman John R. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
| Disciplina | 345.73/0709762 |
| Soggetto topico |
Crime - Mississippi - History
Criminals - Mississippi - History |
| ISBN | 1-4968-0325-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Prologue: The Making of a Career Prosecutor; Some Useful Law Enforcement Acronyms; 1. Guns, Bombs, and Moonshine Whiskey; Introduction; Slick Jamison and the Dixie Mafia; An Infernal Machine; Poison Moonshine and Love among the Jurors; Bluebeard, or Murder with a Balpeen Hammer; My First Time in the Fifth Circus; "Not without My Daughter's Teeth"; A Modern-Day Train Robbery Is Averted; Batesville Boys in a Cajun Bomb Conspiracy; Running Guns to Chicago; Memphis Medical Examiner O. C. Smith, Crucified; A Japanese Prosecutor Comes to Oxford
2. Drug Lords Have Troubles TooIntroduction; From Law Enforcement Major to Cocaine Kingpin: Charlie Cook of Oxford; Mexican Air Smuggling: A Stolen Jet, a Ton of Weed, and a Dead Tarantula; Lt. Shirlene Anderson Saves the Life of Agent Elbert Craig; "Stepper" Dotson Loses His Girlfriend-and His Rolls Royce; College-Educated Drug Kingpins Go Corporate, Still Get Caught; Two Dinners in the Big Easy in One Night? With a Mormon Bishop?; 3. Crime Victims Fight Back; Introduction; A Creepy Extortionist: Letters from the Rat; Pistol Packin' Sisters of Yalobusha County "I Fought the Law and the Law Won"Wild Justice: A Drunken Dove Hunt Turns Violent; Arson in the Delta: The Near-sighted Mr. Magoo as Eyewitness; Only the Lonely; Secret Agent Man: "We're Givin' You a Number and Takin' Away Your Name"; The Snakeman: "Satanist Pimp Seeks Fair Trial in Mississippi"; "You Can't Rape Your Wife, Can You?"; A Victim Stays Strong; A Victim Stays Smart; Zulu Justice in Old New Orleans; Project Safe Neighborhoods: A Victim City Fights Back against Violent Street Gangs; 4. "Mere Theft"; Introduction; Cyber Crime: "Circling Our Cyber Wagons" to Become "Paradigm Busters" A California FBI Agent Discovers Conway Twitty's Lounge at Moon LakeDooksie and the Hot Cadillacs; The World's Sorriest Thief Steals from Hurricane Katrina Victims; The Royal Saudi Chicken Caper: "Young Chickens, Easily Grilled or Broiled"; The Lady from Red Fox Defeats a Municipal Bond Scam; Federal Judges or "Wine-Sippin' Servants of Satan"?; Bank Robbers: A Breed of Thieves Slightly Apart; A Piece of Cake or Police Entrapment?; An Unusual Sentencing; Just Like in the Movies: The "Maggot" Family; 5. Fancy Frauds; Introduction; In Geneva, Penetrating Swiss Bank Secrecy A Pious Fraud: "Only the Lord Knows the Depth of Your Pocketbook"A Classic Nigerian Scam: "We Have a Secret Process"; "Staggering, Slobbering, Delirium, and Death": The Largest Cattle-Poisoning in US History Is Narrowly Averted; Welcome to Libya; "I'm a Surgeon for the CIA"; The Chicago Mob Comes to Grenada, Meets Prosecutor Jim Letten; And Sexual Enhancement for All: "Bustin' Loose" Brings Gender Equity to Telemarketing Fraud; The Health Care Fraud Follies: Chiropractors Ahoy; Really Extreme Couponing; The Sweet Life (for a While) of a Big-Time Bookie Guntown Corners the Market with Over 20 Million in Contraband Cigarettes |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806949103321 |
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Hailman John R. <1942->
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| Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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