West Park sisters Helen, 11, and Marguerite, 10, who died after eating Rough-on-Rats brand poison in their grandmother's basement-victims of a genetic "suicide mania," or driven to death by the cruelest caretaker since Hansel and Gretel's stepmom"Joseph "Specs" Russell, who vaulted to fame in the summer of 1927 by staging as many as 52 stick-ups and making fools of Cleveland lawmen with his "impossible" escapes from their dragnets;Jeanette McAdams-just unlucky, or the Lucretia Borgia of Ashtabula County" After the suspiciously similar deaths of her five siblings, neighbors began to take note of the crowded family graveyard;Salty and ageless George Wallace, who served the city as a fireman for 62 years, 30 of them as chief, and endured to become the oldest fire chief in the world-with a mastery of incessant profanity that could be heard for four city blocks and made mule skinners blush;The wild prophecies of the Rowenites, who announced that the apocalypse would take place at midnight on February 6, 1925. Believers sold their homes and possessions and gathered on hills and rooftops in Garfield Heights to wait for the end;...and more true stories of courage, fear, deception, and villainy-including a disaster caused by the author himself!
West Park sisters Helen, 11, and Marguerite, 10, who died after eating Rough-on-Rats brand poison in their grandmother's basement-victims of a genetic "suicide mania," or driven to death by the cruelest caretaker since Hansel and Gretel's stepmom"Joseph "Specs" Russell, who vaulted to fame in the summer of 1927 by staging as many as 52 stick-ups and making fools of Cleveland lawmen with his "impossible" escapes from their dragnets;Jeanette McAdams-just unlucky, or the Lucretia Borgia of Ashtabula County" After the suspiciously similar deaths of her five siblings, neighbors began to take note of the crowded family graveyard;Salty and ageless George Wallace, who served the city as a fireman for 62 years, 30 of them as chief, and endured to become the oldest fire chief in the world-with a mastery of incessant profanity that could be heard for four city blocks and made mule skinners blush;The wild prophecies of the Rowenites, who announced that the apocalypse would take place at midnight on February 6, 1925. Believers sold their homes and possessions and gathered on hills and rooftops in Garfield Heights to wait for the end;...and more true stories of courage, fear, deception, and villainy-including a disaster caused by the author himself!
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