Criminal Records
Susan JonusasWeekly snippets of historical true crime in stories, photographs and archival material.
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Smut in the 1950’s - Tijuana Bibles and the FBI’s Obscenity File
Some people collect mugs, others collect band t-shirts. Personally, I am always on the lookout for mid-century smut. My collection, however, has nothing on the FBI’s Obscenity File which at one point held over 100,000 case files related to...
A brief tour of the Illustrated Police News
You can read more about the Illustrated Police News here on the British Library website!
Here’s some examples of the Kate Webster coverage:
A Very American Traffic Stop
Last week I introduced you to ‘Uncle’ Robert Lee Johnson, a hillbilly musician with a thousand yard stare and a worn in pair of cowboy boots. Robert was born in Witchita Falls, Texas, to a poor family of farmers. Like many thousands of othe...
Prelude to a Murder Case
On a warm spring day last April, I set off to the Dallas Municipal Archives as part of the research process for my second book. I was on the hunt for a mid-century police file. The subject: Candy Barr (real name Juanita Slusher), a stripper...
Is a sausage worth going to jail for?
A couple of weeks ago over on Instagram, I posted a newspaper article from 1894 about a young woman called Florence Brewer who used an umbrella to smash in a shop window. She had done so because ‘she was very fond of sausages’ and the man w...
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