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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Introduction
CRIMINALS AND CRIMES IN OLD NEW YORK 1802-1844
THE CITY BANK ROBBERY 1831
THE MURDER OF HELEN JEWETT 1836
A PROPER POLICE FORCE 1845-1857
THE BUTTON CASE 1848
MUNICIPALS VS. METROPOLITANS 1857
THE DRAFT RIOTS 1863
POST-CIVIL WAR POLICING 1865-1890
THE MANHATTAN BANK ROBBERY 1878
THOMAS BYRNES CHANGES THE FORCE 1880
COMMON CRIMES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1800s
THE END OF AN ERA: POLICE REFORMER THEODORE ROOSEVELT TAKES CHARGE 1895
THE MURDER OF DOLLY REYNOLDS 1898
THE BARREL MURDER 1903
Sidebar: Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino
“THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY” 1906
Sidebar: Homicide Squad, 1908
THE CHINATOWN TRUNK MURDER 1909
Sidebar: Fingerprints—Joseph Faurot and the Conviction of Caesar Cella, 1911
THE GREAT TAXICAB ROBBERY 1912
LIEUTENANT CHARLES BECKER GETS THE CHAIR 1912
THE STRANGE DEATH OF PATROLMAN JOHN CAHILL 1913
THE DEADLY SINS OF FATHER HANS SCHMIDT 1913
THE ATTEMPTED BOMBING OF ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL 1914
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF RUTH CRUGER 1917
“KID DROPPER” AND “LITTLE AUGIE,” THE DEADLY RIVALS 1920-1923
THE WALL STREET BOMBING 1920
DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1927
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN GAMBLED WITH HIS LIFE 1928
JUDGE CRATER GOES MISSING 1930
THE MURDER OF VIVACIOUS VIVIAN GORDON 1931
THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING 1932
VENDING MACHINES AND SLUGS 1930s
HARLEM ERUPTS 1935
THE BATHTUB MURDER 1936
THE BUNGLED APPREHENSION OF HARRY BRUNETTE 1936
THE MAD SCULPTOR 1937
NAZIS IN NEW YORK 1935-1941
THE WORLD’S FAIR BOMB 1940
“THE MAD BOMBER” 1940
ABE RELES: A CANARY WHO COULD SING BUT COULD NOT FLY 1940
MADELINE WEBB, THE FEMME FATALE 1942
THE ATOMIC SECRETS OF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG 1949
HARRY GROSS, THE KING OF THE CONS 1950
WHERE THE MONEY IS 1950
THE HIT ON ALBERT ANASTASIA 1957
THE FORGOTTEN STABBING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 1958
“THE CAPE MAN” AND “THE UMBRELLA MAN” 1959
Sidebar: The Drama of Gangs
THE REAL-LIFE FRENCH CONNECTION 1961
Sidebar: Stealing the Stolen Drugs
“JERRY THE JEW” 1962
THE CAREER GIRL MURDERS 1963
KITTY GENOVESE: WHO SAW WHAT? 1964
Sidebar: The Establishment of 911 in New York City
THE CENSORSHIP OF LENNY BRUCE 1964
MURF THE SURF AND THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY JEWEL HEIST 1964
MALCOLM X: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY 1965
THE PERSECUTION OF ALICE CRIMMINS 1965
THE BLACK PANTHERS IN NEW YORK CITY 1969-1981
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND 1970
THE MURDER AT THE HARLEM MOSQUE 1972
DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1972
Sidebar: Wojtowicz’s Brush with Fame
NEW YORK CITY’S FORGOTTEN FIRST JIHAD 1973
THE BOMBING OF FRAUNCES TAVERN 1975
SON OF SAM 1976
HOW WILLIE BOSKET CHANGED THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM 1978
BUDDY JACOBSON: A FOOL FOR LOVE 1978
SID AND NANCY: A LOVE STORY OF SORTS 1978
THE DEATH OF GIG YOUNG: MURDER OR SUICIDE? 1978
THE LUFTHANSA HEIST 1978
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ETAN PATZ 1979
“PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” 1980
“I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON” 1980
THE PALM SUNDAY MASSACRE 1984
Sidebar: What Became of the Sole Survivor?
THE “SUBWAY VIGILANTE” 1984
THE ASSASSINATION OF PAUL CASTELLANO AND THE RISE AND FALL OF JOHN GOTTI 1985
“THE PREPPY MURDER CASE” 1986
Sidebar: Sleeping Off a Murder Charge
THE INCREDIBLE ESCAPE OF LARRY DAVIS 1986
THE ASSASSINATION OF POLICE OFFICER EDWARD BYRNE 1988
THE HAPPY LAND SOCIAL CLUB FIRE 1990
THE SENSELESS MURDER OF A UTAH TOURIST 1990
THE KILLING OF RABBI MEIR KAHANE 1990
FIRST ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER 1993
Sidebar: The Blind Sheik
Sidebar: Jack Maple and CompStat
A HEIST AT TIFFANY’S 1994
“THE DEADLY GRIFTERS” 1998
ATTACK ON THE TWIN TOWERS 2001
THE SLAYING OF COUNCILMAN JAMES DAVIS 2003
THE MURDER OF IMETTE ST. GUILLEN 2006
“SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING” 2010
THE MURDER OF A FASHION DESIGNER 2010
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Photo Credits
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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