Murder in Hamtramck: Historic Crimes of Passion & Coldblooded Killings

Murder in Hamtramck: Historic Crimes of Passion & Coldblooded Killings

Author: Greg Kowalski

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467147109

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Founded in 1798, Hamtramck shrank in size even as it grew in population. Stuffing tens of thousands of people in 2.1 square miles is bound to breed conflict, and many of those conflicts boiled over into murder. Sunday, September 7, 1884, was supposed to be a day of joy for Fritz Krum, whose child was being christened. Instead, it ended in a fatal stabbing. The 1930 killing of police officer Barney Roth in a reputed mob hit drew national attention. The murder of Hamtramck teen Bernice Onisko remains an open case today, more than eighty years after it occurred. Gathering cases from the late nineteenth century to more recent times, prolific local historian Greg Kowalski takes readers on a journey through Hamtramck homicide.


Murder in Hamtramck

Murder in Hamtramck

Author: Greg Kowalski

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439672040

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Founded in 1798, Hamtramck shrank in size even as it grew in population. Stuffing tens of thousands of people in 2.1 square miles is bound to breed conflict, and many of those conflicts boiled over into murder. Sunday, September 7, 1884, was supposed to be a day of joy for Fritz Krum, whose child was being christened. Instead, it ended in a fatal stabbing. The 1930 killing of police officer Barney Roth in a reputed mob hit drew national attention. The murder of Hamtramck teen Bernice Onisko remains an open case today, more than eighty years after it occurred. Gathering cases from the late nineteenth century to more recent times, prolific local historian Greg Kowalski takes readers on a journey through Hamtramck homicide.


Murder in Hamtramck

Murder in Hamtramck

Author: Greg Kowalski

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781540246035

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Founded in 1798, Hamtramck shrank in size even as it grew in population. Stuffing tens of thousands of people in 2.1 square miles is bound to breed conflict, and many of those conflicts boiled over into murder. Sunday, September 7, 1884, was supposed to be a day of joy for Fritz Krum, whose child was being christened. Instead, it ended in a fatal stabbing. The 1930 killing of police officer Barney Roth in a reputed mob hit drew national attention. The murder of Hamtramck teen Bernice Onisko remains an open case today, more than eighty years after it occurred. Gathering cases from the late nineteenth century to more recent times, prolific local historian Greg Kowalski takes readers on a journey through Hamtramck homicide.


The Witch of Delray

The Witch of Delray

Author: Karen Dybis

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1439663173

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An immigrant woman and her son are accused of murder and witchcraft in this powerful true crime story of corruption in 1930s Detroit. In 1931, the tensions of the Great Depression took hold of Detroit at every level—even spilling over into the investigation of a mysterious murder at the Delray boardinghouse. Amid accusations of witchcraft, Hungarian immigrant Rose Veres and her son Bill were convicted of the brutal killing and suspected in a dozen more. Their cries of innocence went unheeded—until one lawyer, determined to seek justice, took on the case. Following the twists and turns of this shocking story, The Witch of Delray explores the tumultuous 1930s in a city notorious for corruption and reveals the truth of Detroit’s own Hex Woman.


Terror in Ypsilanti

Terror in Ypsilanti

Author: Gregory A. Fournier

Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1627874038

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Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's home. All-American boy John Norman Collins was arrested, tried, and convicted of the strangulation murder of Karen Sue Beineman. The other murders never went to trial, with one exception, and soon became cold cases. With the benefit of fifty years of hindsight, hundreds of vintage newspaper articles, thousand of police reports, and countless interviews, Fournier tells the stories of the other victims, recreates the infamous trial that took Collins off the streets, and details Collins's time spent in prison.


Wicked Hamtramck

Wicked Hamtramck

Author: Greg Kowalski

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-07-23

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1614232040

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Hamtramck's population bulged to 56,000 from a mere 3,500 in the early twentieth century, a sixteen-fold increase that created the perfect environment for crime and corruption to flourish. Post-Prohibition, bars sprang up in quick order, until there were at least two hundred within this wide-open town's 2.1 square miles, giving it more bars per capita than any other city in America; even the Dodge brothers served barrels of beer to their workers. Follow local historian Greg Kowalski through the underbelly of Hamtramck, from the "painted women openly flaunting their tainted charms from undraped windows" to the nefarious plots crafted behind the walls of the International Workers Home on Yemens Street. Welcome to the height of Hamtramck's infamy, where anything could happen--for a price.


Sketches of Murder

Sketches of Murder

Author: Arnold Hannon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-05

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 0557452236

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Sketches of Murder, an eye-opening experience that rattles the nerves, shakes the hands that turn its pages, and revs up the pulse of the reader. Sketches of Murder revisits the murder scenes of some of Michigan's most gruesome murders torn from the headlines of the daily newspapers in Arnold Hannon's hometown of Detroit, Michigan, snippets of murder from our past. With the accounts of over 240 murders committed over the last 50 years, 1960-2009, Hannon powerfully delivers a vital message through a small sampling of man and woman's inhumanity toward our fellow beings.


Murder in the Synagogue

Murder in the Synagogue

Author: T. V. LoCicero

Publisher: Thomas LoCicero

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Describes the murder of Rabbi Morris Adler, in Congregation Shaarey Zedek.