Profile of Max Haines

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• Stroke of madness
  Robert Dadd was a retired apothecary, as the English called those individuals who dispensed pills and potions before the turn of the century. ...
• Cop shot in cold blood
  You can find Midlothian, Texas, on a good map. The town of 7,000 is located about 25 miles south of Dallas. Not that much happens in ...
• Not so funny money
  Every con man worth his salt has dreamed of having a licence to print money. I'm not referring to counterfeit bills here; I'm talking the real ...
• For Petes sake
  The devil rum has played a major role in many a murder case. Certainly, Chrissie Gall's alcoholism caused her death. Whether her life ended by ...
• Elderly home of horrors
  The Kearsley Home of Christ Church Hospital, located in Philadelphia, is a fine residential home for elderly ladies. Each of the 60 residents ...
• Death in the family
  Some women have a talent for getting themselves and their families into all kinds of trouble. Amelia Palwodzinski would have won an Academy ...
• Death nurse on duty
  Genene Jones was a good old Texas gal who had once pursued the hairdressing profession to earn a living. But all that was behind her. In June ...
• Cops saw it coming
  By 1921, Katherine Mooers had seen better days. In years gone by, she and her hubby had travelled to Alaska following the lure of gold. The ...
• Burying the hatchet
  Though I might often be tempted, I try my hardest not to present my personal theories about unsolved crimes. Alas, to every rule there is an ...
• Hard time in prison
  Robert Redford made it famous in Brubaker, and while the most corrupt prison in the U.S. has changed for the better, the Cummins Unit of the ...
• Plunged into mystery
  By the time our story shifts into second gear in the summer of 1930, Elizabeth Hisey had gone through two husbands, one by death and one by ...
• GOTCHA!
  It has been said that the perfect crime is one where a criminal act is never suspected. Dear old granny falls down the front stairs; a tragic ...
• Murderous baby-faced beast
  The clean-cut 12-year-old with the wide grin explained he was a Boy Scout and was selling cookies door to door. The lady of the house smiled and ...
• Familys dark secret revealed
  Daniel Renault was one of the most despicable men who ever walked the face of the Earth. He hung around bars in Lille, France, picking fights, ...
• The Donnelly Massacre
  Continued from last week Jim Donnelly, his wife Johannah, their seven sons and one daughter, lived in Lucan, Ont. in the mid-19th century. They ...
• Lodger cant dodge noose
  Little 10-year-old Mona Tinsley left the Wesleyan school in Newark, England, at 4 o'clock as usual. Then she disappeared. Although it was a ...
• Poisonous relationships
  Edith and Percy Thompson were ordinary folks in every way. Both were unlikely candidates to have their photographs and stories featured on the ...
• Death of an Irish beauty
  Ellen Hanley, at age 16, was a beauty. Her long honey blond hair set off her sparkling blue eyes, the likes of which can only be found in ...
• Pure evil by any name
  On July 16, 1929, one of the meanest dudes ever to draw breath was born in Mound City, Mo. By the time Charles A. Hatcher was 20, he had been ...
• The worlds greatest thief
  You've all heard about the Great Train Robbery and the Brinks Caper in the U.S. These were individual robberies pulled off with singular planning ...
• Deadly walk in the woods
  Ray Smith, 18, was the new boy on the block. He had arrived in Eau Claire, Wisc., with his parents at the beginning of October 1948. Tall, ...
• Paint him guilty of murder
  Some murders are solved as a result of long hard work by investigating officers, but there are cases in which unbelievable good fortune brings ...
• Shocking end to death plot
  Ruth Brown was one unhappy woman. All her life, she dreamed of life in the fast lane. One day she would be released from the constraints of ...
• Deathbed ID fingered Alfie
  ßAlfred Moore was a 38-year-old, overweight Yorkshire farmer, whose marginal farm was located outside the tiny village of Kirkheaton near ...
• The man they couldnt kill
  Tony Marino ran a gin mill in the Bronx back in 1932 when 15 cents would buy you a slug of rotgut. Those who were hungry bellied up to the free ...
• Northern frontier justice
  When we think of the rather vile practice of lynching, we are inclined to picture racially instigated necktie parties committed by mobs in the ...
• Brides murdered in tubs
  Ladies should be extremely careful while taking baths, particularly if they have husbands who are determined to drown them. George Joseph Smith ...
• Dead men wear lipstick
  How could a killer enter a naval base, avoid sentries, gain entrance to a barracks housing 60 men, seek out his victim and stab the man to death ...
• O, Brother Twelve!
  Brother Twelve always claimed that he was born in India of a Hindu father. Actually, he was born Edward Arthur Wilson in Birmingham, England. ...
• Flood foils Freds finesse
  Florence and Fred Small moved to the village of Mountainview, N.H., in 1914. They purchased a comfortable cottage about a mile from the village ...