David Stout
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
"The Great Depression was a time of incomparable financial desperation in America. Thugs with submachine guns and square-jawed G-men have long dominated the vernacular images of fear, lawlessness, and corruption set against the decimating poverty of that decade. But little known-until now-are the many serial dramas that played out in homes and hideouts, courtrooms and cold cases across the country. In a time of panic, legal lethargy, corruption, and...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the "Boy in the Box" soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide-to no avail. In November 1998 the remains were exhumed for DNA analysis, and the boy was reburied as "America's Unknown Child." “The Boy in the Box” is the first book to examine America's most famous unsolved case of child...
Series
Publisher
Hollywood Entertainment DVD Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The brutal murder of two young white girls results in the wrongful execution of a young African-American boy. Thirty years later, his brother and war-torn Green Beret James Bragg, investigates the facts to clear his name.