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Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994. Wallace preyed on lower economic class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature-concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women. A rarity in that he was an African American serial killer, his murderous rampage...

Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor, but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia's Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition, Ruiz Henao moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1985. There he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon, where he held down mundane but respectable cleaning and bus driving jobs. At least to outward appearances ...Actually, Ruiz Henao kept ...

This volume covers Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Khun Sa and Raymond Chow. All three of these men are among the most colourful gangsters of recent times. Arguably Mexicos biggest drug trafficker, Carrillo Fuentes was known as Lord of the Skies. In his time, he pioneered the use of jumbo jets for the mass distribution of illicit drugs into the United States. Khun Sa was a Burmese War lord. He was perhaps historys biggest heroin dealer who operated ou...

A historical account of Theodore "Teddy" Roe who courageously fought the Chicago Mafia aka The Outfit, for control of the lucrative Policy/Numbers racket. During the time when the mob was muscling in on the Policy/Numbers game that for decades had been a staple in the African-American Community many knuckled under the pressure. However, Roe was one who didn't fold. He famously told mob bosses that he'd rather die first than give up control of ...

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Negli anni Ottanta la Colombia è stata attraversata da una spirale di violenza mai vista prima. Una guerra tra potenti organizzazioni criminali, grandi cartelli della droga raccolti intorno ai loro capi indiscussi. Da una parte il famigerato Pablo Escobar, boss del cartello di Medellín, operante anche in altri Paesi, e dall'altra i fratelli Gilberto e Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, del cartello di Cali. Gli appartenenti alle due fazioni si resero ...

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In the 1980s, Colombia was the scene of history's biggest gang war. The epic death struggle pitted Pablo Escobar, the so called world's greatest outlaw, against the powerful Cali Cartel, led by the brothers Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela. The war left thousands of Colombians dead and spawned the term, narcoterrorism. Who got Pablo Escobar and how did the war play out? Author, Ron Chepesiuk takes the reader behind the scenes of the war ...

An attempt to satisfy the tremendous need for a comprehensive guide to archival material relating to Indians. Repositories are listed under the town in which they are located. Towns are grouped by state and arranged alphabetically. Information on each repository includes address and telephone number, hours, access, copying facilities, a brief description of Indian material, and titles of published guides to the collections. There is also a sub...

The Scotch-Irish began emigrating to Northern Ireland from Scotland in the seventeenth century to form the Ulster Plantation. In the next century these Scottish Presbyterians migrated to the Western Hemisphere in search of a better life. Except for the English, the Scotch-Irish were the largest ethnic group to come to the New World during the eighteenth century. By the time of the American Revolution there were an estimated 250, 000 Scotch-Iri...

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This is the remarkable story of Frank Matthews, a charismatic drug kingpin from the late 1960s and 1980s who organized a huge criminal enterprise before jumping bail and 1973 with $15 million and a beautiful woman. Nicknamed Black Caesar, Matthews has never been seen again in what has become one of organized crimes most intriguing mysteries.

Here is the whole story of the world of drugs--from the infamous Opium Wars to the legal availability of narcotics in the United States during the past century, from the unexpected boost given to illicit drugs by Prohibition to the great success of the French Connection.

In recent years, a new wave of investigative journalists have become prominent. Some relish being "politically incorrect" (David Brock, author of The Real Anita Hill), others methodically shatter cultural icons (Douglas Frantzs expos of Washington insider Clark Clifford), and still others have revealed such horror as Cold War experimentation on unsuspecting citizens (Eileen Welsomes Pulitzer Prize-winning stories). In their own words, these jo...

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Women have played a prominent role in shaping South Carolina's history through active participation in many aspects of the state's development, from securing state appropriations for public libraries to helping to establish the South Carolina Board of Social Services. While many of their achievements have been documented by various organizations, a number of these irreplaceable records have been lost or discarded. Winthrop University, for year...

Since its founding in 1886, Winthrop University has stood as one of South Carolina's premiere state institutions, providing education and opportunity to generations of women and men throughout the state and across the country. Education pioneer David Bancroft Johnson had the unique vision of establishing a school for training female teachers in response to a teacher shortage in Columbia and worked earnestly to acquire the necessary funds from ...

A focal point for many cities and towns across the Palmetto State, rivers provide key elements, such as commerce, transportation, sustenance, and recreation, in establishing a community's identity and prosperity. The Catawba River is no exception. Flowing down from the Piedmont region of North Carolina, this river has enjoyed a long and fascinating history with the people of the Carolinas, from early American Indian tribes to the first settler...

Women have played a prominent role in shaping South Carolina's history through active participation in many aspects of the state's development, from securing state appropriations for public libraries to helping to establish the South Carolina Board of Social Services. While many of their achievements have been documented by various organizations, a number of these irreplaceable records have been lost or discarded. Winthrop University, for year...