Robert Reynolds: 560 books

My e-book treats numerous photographic scandals that I have researched from the twentieth century, i.e. 1900-1984. The first of these involved a mixed race photographer who surprised citizens of DeSoto, Missouri by photographing numerous women there nude. The naked images didn't surface until after...

In 1969 an off campus newspaper at the University of Florida-Gainesville published nude photos of a woman standing and seated in the university's research library. The controversial publication was the second instance of nudity causing a stir in Gainesville in the previous three years. In 1966 Pamme...

Sasquatch is a native term for a huge humanoid creature that has been sighted, primarily in the northwest United States and southwest Canada since the 18th century. Caucasian records of Sasquatch date from 1811 when a trapper in the northwest sighted huge footprints and recorded them in his diary....

Cedar waxwings have been called the gypsies of the bird family as their range is uneven and widespread. This species of birds, Bombycilla cedorum, can be found from New York to Georgia on the east coast. They breed in New York and Canada and fly to wherever they can find the berries which are the...

Carmine and Ralph Palizzano were Italian-Americans who were born in the United States. Both of them served in the U.S. Army during World War II. My e-book looks at their criminal connections and the crimes they committed, primarily in the late 1950s. Both were part of a narcotics case in 1957 in which...

John "Johnny the Boxer" Fury was a 1930s era gangster in Rochester and Monroe County, New York. His specialty was stealing safes. A career criminal, Fury had twenty-eight offenses on his record before being assigned to Attica Prison in 1936. John was part of a team of three men who carried out safe...

The Boston Strangler strangulation murders of 1962-1963 took place within a small radius, encompassing Boston's Back Bay, Salem, Lynn, Belmont, and Dorchester, MA. A number of the victims of the killer immigrated with their husbands and families from eastern Europe. Through research into U.S. Census...

The crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 903 was one of the worst commercial aviation accidents in history. 16 nations were represented among its passengers. One of them was an Egyptian movie star who was in transit to Switzerland for a vacation from filming. Another was a Gulf Oil manager who was...

The UFO which appeared to a couple of shipyard workers fishing on the pier near the Pascagoula River on October 11, 1973 has been written about on many occasions. My e-book concentrates on fitting the UFO into a time when UFOs were being seen on a nightly basis on the Gulf Coast from Pensacola to...

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...