Midwest Vice

A Chain of Midcentury Sex Trafficking and Murder

Gavin Schmitt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9088-9 (ISBN)

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Covers four interconnected murders, each of them unsolved. The common denominator is the underground world of sex trafficking. Using police and FBI records never before made public, underworld links are made between numerous vice centres in the Midwest.

This book delves into four interconnected murders, each of them unsolved, in which the common denominator is the underground world of sex trafficking. Using police and FBI records never before made public, underworld links are made between numerous vice centers in the Midwest. What does a small mining town in upper Michigan have to do with organized crime in Peoria, Illinois? More than you might think!

Within these pages, meet corrupt night club owners, dancers who moonlight as callgirls, interstate burglary rings, Milwaukee Mafia members, bank robbers and more. All part of one giant web, they come together in a story that has remained largely untold--until now.

Gavin Schmitt is a local historian working in northeast Wisconsin. He has previously written on Milwaukee organized crime, the Menominee tribe, and various film topics, with some of his work appearing in Horrorhound magazine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Jay Bass

Midwest Vice: Hurley, Wisconsin

The Peoria Underworld

Interlude: Malcolm O’Bannon

Interlude: Milwaukee Jazz

Izzy Pogrob and the Brass Rail

The O’Bannon Gang, Part Two: Robert Langenour

The Return of Willard Woodring

The Continuing Saga of Layton and Fordyce

Further Suspects

Addendum: Where Did They Go?

Chapter Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	35 photos, notes, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-9088-X / 147669088X
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-9088-9 / 9781476690889
Zustand	Neuware