Robert Grey Reynolds Jr: 502 books

Alcatraz was opened as Federal penitentiary to confine the most hardened criminals in 1934. Men like Doc Barker and Al Capone were a couple of the names of its inmates. Most were incorrigibles sent from other prisons where they had been malcontents and generally a problem for guards and prison administration....

Harvey Glatman was imprisoned at a young age for violence toward women in Boulder, Colorado. He was obsessed with ropes and asphyxiation deaths and torture. He moved with his family, first from New York to Colorado, then back to NY for a summer visit as a teenager. His mother assisted him in getting...

Between April 1949 and February 1950 multiple crimes were committed by members of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. Groups of white hooded masked men arrived by car at the home of Charlie Lee Hurst, a shopkeeper who lived near rural Pell City. Hurst was killed and his nephew wounded by gunmen who called them...

Astrid is a 22-year-old prostitute from Bucharest, Romania. She came to Amsterdam by way of Kiev, Ukraine. Astrid is thoroughly spontaneous, impulsive, and reckless. She left Bucharest following the circulation of a video her friends made of her in a public park. Masturbating to a climax, she sent...

Flight 2501, a Northwest Orient Douglas DC-4 Airliner crashed into Lake Michigan sometime around midnight on June 23, 1950. The plane had departed LaGuardia Airport in New York City at approximately 8 p.m. that evening. The three person crew, along with 55 passengers on the flight all perished in...

Alan Stacey was a promising English driver for an upstart Team Lotus headed by manager and owner Colin Chapman. A few years into the 1960s Team Lotus would compete as an equal with the great factory cars fielded by Ferrari and Porsche. Stacey landed a Formula One ride after winning events such as...

Andre Kertesz was a pioneer of nude photography. Arriving in Paris in 1925, he roamed the streets searching for spontaneous photographs of Parisians. Originally from Budapest, he enjoyed considerable commercial success in France, especially following his one-man show in 1927. In 1936 he was extended...

Andrea de Cesaris was a Formula 1 driver who debuted with two "guest races" with Alfa Romeo during the 1980 season. He got his first ride with McLaren before Niki Lauda returned to racing and took his job, alongside teammate John Watson of Great Britain. Andrea was the son of a well established Philip...

In the mid-16th century Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus touched off a revolutionary transformation of thinking about the universe. In 1543 the same man who introduced trigonometry to the world published "Concerning the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres". It was handwritten in Latin....

Marie Francois Sadi Carnot was bludgeoned by the dagger of an anarchist during a visit to an international exhibition in Lyons, France in June 1894. Sadi Carnot was riding to the theater around 9:30 p.m. when a man emerged from the crowd who was thought to be carrying a petition. Inside his sleeve...

Chris Bristow was a promising English racer who died very young while attempting to pass Willy Mairesse's Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps during the Belgian Grand Prix of 1960. In doing so he took a line that caused him to veer off the circuit and was it impossible for him to recover from. Bristow's...

Judith Coplon was arrested in March 1949 with her Russian boyfriend, former United Nations employee Valentin Gubitchev. FBI agents had been following them when they rendezvoused in various places in Washington, D.C. Coplon was a political analyst for the Department of Justice. Both were charged with...

The Wylie-Hoffert Murders in the late summer of 1963 was a vicious bloodletting that remained unsolved until the spring of 1964. At that time two men were arrested, and one of them was eventually set free for the crime of murdering Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert. The young women were living in what...

Jimmy Hoffa, formerly Teamsters Union President, disappeared suddenly without a trace in the summer of 1975. My e-book looks at the circumstances of this event and points an accusing finger at two men, one of them a mobster who was based in Detroit, Michigan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes...