Murdered in JerseyThe Lindbergh kidnapping, the Dutch Schultz murder, the Hurricane Carter case, the Edgard Smith affair involving William F. Buckley, Jr., the slaying of the List family, the shooting of Trooper Philip Lamonaco, the contract killing of Maria Marshall, and the kidnapping and murder of Exxon executive Sidney Reso-all America followed with fascination these terrible crimes committed in New Jersey. These famous New Jersey cases--and fifty-two others, all front-page news in their day--are presented colorfully and concisely in Gerald Tomlinson's Murdered in Jersey, an illustrated look at homicide in the Garden State. For all true crime buffs in and out of New Jersey. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
PART ONE | 5 |
Under a Crab Apple Tree | 7 |
The Brigham Murder | 12 |
Trooper Coyle at the Quarry | 15 |
Sea Isles Indiscreet Squire | 19 |
A Crazy Rich Kid | 20 |
Shootout at the French Hill Inn | 23 |
I Blew My Top | 104 |
The Coppolino Case | 108 |
At a Lodi Tavern | 111 |
Domestic Squabble on River Road 114 | 113 |
McAfees BackPorch Bombing | 117 |
Who Killed Mrs Kavanaugh? | 119 |
Dr X and Flying Death | 124 |
Requiem for a Middleweight | 130 |
The Mail Truck Blitz | 26 |
Dr Lilliendahls Death | 30 |
An Arrest Gone Bad | 33 |
Murder of a Prohibition Agent | 35 |
Americas Crime of the Century | 38 |
PART TWO | 43 |
The GreenbergHassel Rubout | 45 |
Killing the Dutchman | 48 |
Willful Gladys Took an Ax | 51 |
Death of a Union Boss | 54 |
Who Murdered the Littlefields? | 57 |
The Duck Island Murders | 60 |
Ambush at Fort Dix | 63 |
First His Wife Then a Trooper | 66 |
Its All Over | 68 |
PART THREE | 69 |
The Keyport Trunk Murder | 71 |
Drowning His Sorrow | 74 |
Case of the Trenton Six | 76 |
Unruhs Bloody Rampage | 79 |
R I P Willie Moretti | 81 |
Bayonnes Morro Castle Killer | 83 |
The Avenging Motel Owner | 86 |
Death Rows Edgar Smith | 89 |
Mamas Little Felony Murderer | 95 |
Batman in Blairstown | 96 |
PART FOUR | 99 |
Murder at the Clarke Estate | 101 |
Millburns Shady Art Dealer | 135 |
PART FIVE | 137 |
The Elusive John List | 139 |
Gun Battle on the Turnpike | 143 |
In a Black Cadillac | 147 |
TwentyGauge Euthanasia | 150 |
Shoemaker and Son | 153 |
Murder at the Flamingo Motel | 156 |
He Hates His Mother | 159 |
A Suicide or Two | 162 |
Fall of a Renaissance Man | 164 |
Trooper Lamonacos Death | 167 |
PART SIX | 173 |
Bomb Blast in Middlesex | 175 |
A Stalker at the Mall | 177 |
The Carnival Killing | 180 |
A Contract | 184 |
Policewoman Powletts Death | 189 |
By Ninja Possessed | 190 |
An IllFated Party in Sparta | 194 |
Heikkilas Night Out | 198 |
The Family Says Die | 202 |
Saga of the Failed Yuppies | 205 |
PART SEVEN | 213 |
That Man Is an Animal | 215 |
SOURCE NOTES AND COMMENTARY | 231 |
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