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Crimes and Capers of the Northwest is a rascal-laden romp through the annals of history of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It contains a combination of high-profile crimes and quirky capers that have taken place in the Pacific Northwest over the past 150 years:
- Bill Miner was a gentlemanly train robber, also known as The Grey Fox, and was credited as being the first to say, "Hands up!"
- Linda Burfield Hazzard pretended to be a doctor, wrote books on fasting, and convinced her patients to starve themselves to death so she could profit from the
- Sarah Johnson had it al--she lived with her picture-perfect family in an affluent Idaho neighborhood--until the night she decided to kill her parents because they didn’t approve of her illegal alien boyfrien
- Keith Hunter Jesperson was a truck driver and serial killer, referred to as The Happy Face Killer for the way he signed his letters to the media
- Franz Edmund Creffield claimed to be a prophet looking for the mother of the next Christ and preached that clothes were evil; his Oregon nudist cult seduced women, and enraged their husbands, boyfriends and brothers
- Clarence Dayton Hillman was a real estate manipulator who hired actors and staged fake scenery to lure in unsuspecting customers to buy inferior land
- Ted Bundy killed as many as 40 women between 1974 and 1978, throughout the Northwest states; his favorite hunting ground was college campuses, and his favorite victims were young, pretty girls
- For 20 year, Maxwell Levy ran an underhanded business as a "crimper"; he shanghaied sailors staying in his boarding house, and sold them to ship captains in busy Port Townsend in the late 1800s
- Portland’s Mount Scott rapist, Robert Stevenson, broke into homes to commit at least six rapes at knifepoint in as many months in the 1980s; two of his victims were men
- The Green River Killer raped, tortured and murdered close to 50 women in the ’80s and ’90s--most of them prostitutes or teenage runaways--but it took almost 20 years to convict Gary Ridgway of the crimes
- William Dainard kidnapped nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company family, off the street in the middle of the day. George’s father paid the $200,000 ransom, and the boy was released unharmed, but the ransom bills were marked, and William spent the next 40 years in prison
- Mary Kay Letourneau was caught up in a Romeo and Juliet story that made jaws drop: she was a married 34-year-old schoolteacher in love with her 13-year-old student, which led to her being convicted as a child rapist.
| Price: |
$18.95 
$16.95 |
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| Format: |
Paperback |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-926677-52-1 |
| ISBN-10: |
1-926677-52-8 |
| Page Count: |
256 |
| Dimensions: |
5.25" x 8.25" |
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