Boss Brooks (eBook)

A True Story of Fraud, Family, and Forgiveness from Tennessee to Texas

Kathy Bingham Turner, Leon Alligood (Autoren)

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2025 | 1., First Edition
232 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
979-8-89527-038-7 (ISBN)

Infos

True crime meets family memoir in this gripping story of faked deathIn 1931, Boss Bingham, the head cashier of Hardin County Bank in Saltillo, Tennessee, faked his death from a fiery auto accident and fled westto escape allegations of fraud and embezzlement. While his three children believed he was dead, Bingham reinvented himself as Marvin Lester Brooks, a rancher in Sherwood, Texas, where he married and raised a second family. Upon his death four decades later, he became a man with two tombstones. In Boss Brooks: A True Story of Fraud, Family, and Forgiveness from Tennessee to Texas, Bingham's granddaughter Kathy Bingham Turner and journalist Leon Alligood uncover the truth about Boss's deception and explore the impacts on both his families. Through meticulous research and personal reflections, the authors delve into the history of rural Tennessee and Texas, revealing the complex legacy of a man whose finalconfession came only after suffering a stroke in 1972.A gripping memoir of family secrets revealed, Boss Brooksoffers a compelling blend of historical context and personal discovery. Turner and Alligood have produced a captivating saga that helps us understand the multifaceted nature of family legacies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 24 photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1915 bank scandal • American fugitive stories • American history hidden stories • bank audit fraud cases • Boss Bingham • criminal deception stories • deathbed confessions • double life stories • Dramatic true stories • dual identities history • early 20th-century fugitives • early 20th-century scandal • faked death stories • family history revelations • financial deception cases • financial scandals 1900s • forgotten crimes of history • genealogy mysteries • Great Depression fraud cases • Hardin County Bank fraud • Hardin County Tennessee history • Hidden family secrets • historical fraud cases • historical investigative journalism • historical non-fiction crime • historical true crime • identity fraud history • Kathy Bingham Turner • Leon Alligood • Lost Family Members • Marvin Lester Brooks • mysterious disappearances 1900s • real-life mystery stories • rural Tennessee history • rural Texas history • Saltillo Tennessee history • San Angelo Texas history • secret second families • small-town bank scandals • southern true crime history • Tennessee bank embezzlement • Tennessee banking history • Tennessee crime history • tennessee true crime • Tennessee unsolved mysteries • Texas historical figures • Texas ranching history • texas true crime • two tombstones mystery • Wild West fugitives
• ISBN-13: 979-8-89527-038-7 / 9798895270387