Return to Guntown : classic trials of the outlaws and rogues of Faulkner country / John Hailman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hailman, John R., 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Mississippi--History.

Crime.

Criminals--Mississippi--History.

Criminals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New tales of wild bad guys from an accomplished prosecutor of drug lords, kidnappers, con men, and other colorful criminals.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4968-0325-6

OCLC:

904801363