Infamous America

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PATTY HEARST Ep. 1 | “The SLA” Feb 14, 2024

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On February 4, 1974, strangers burst into the college apartment of Patty Hearst and kidnap her at gunpoint. While she begins her stay in captivity, she learns about her kidnappers. They are a ragtag collection of hopeful revolutionaries who call themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. They are led by charismatic Donald DeFreeze, an escaped convict who helped the group execute a high-profile murder in Oakland, California.

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UPDATE | “Summer of 1876” Event Announcements! Jan 24, 2024

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Join us for two upcoming events in 2024 about Chris’s book, “The Summer of 1876”

February 2, 2024 – 2:00-3:00pm Presentation

3:00pm Book Signing

Scottsdale, Arizona

Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West

Presentation and Book Signing

**FREE to the public

March 9-10, 2024

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson Festival of Books

March 9, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

“Into The Sunset” panel discussion

*Book signing after the panel

March 10, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

“The West in Fact and Fiction” panel discussion

*Book signing after the panel

**FREE to the public

To buy the book: “The Summer of 1876”

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BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 6 | “Public Enemy No. 1” Jan 17, 2024

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Shortly after the Little Bohemia shootout, the celebrity criminals of the 1930s start to experience a reckoning. They fall one by one: Bonnie and Clyde, then John Dillinger, then Pretty Boy Floyd. In the autumn of 1934, Lester Gillis, aka George “Baby Face” Nelson, becomes the third man to carry the title of Public Enemy No. 1. But his reign at the top of the criminal underworld is brief and ends in a hail of gunfire.

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BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 5 | “The Little Bohemia Shootout” Jan 10, 2024

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After two robberies that featured gun battles, the Nelson-Dillinger gang needs some time to cool off. Baby Face Nelson heads out west to do a little business, and then reunites with the gang at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin. Unbeknownst to the gang, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis has organized an ambush at the lodge. The gang shoots it out with the agents, and Nelson commits the crime that will soon make him the most wanted man in America.

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BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 4 | “The Dillinger Connection” Jan 03, 2024

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After the messy Grand Haven job, Baby Face Nelson looks for a new crew. It’s the fall of 1933 and newspaper headlines are dominated by the most infamous criminals of the era: Bonnie and Clyde, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis and the Barker Family, John Dillinger, and Baby Face Nelson. Dillinger stages an improbable escape from a jail in Crown Point, Indiana, and then teams with Nelson for the first of two rip-roaring robberies.

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BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 3 | “The Grand Haven Heist” Dec 27, 2023

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Baby Face Nelson flees to the West Coast to avoid a manhunt in the Midwest. He works for prominent gamblers in Reno, Nevada and a bootlegger in California, but he misses his family in Chicago. He meets famous robber Alvin “Creepy” Karpis and takes Karpis’s advice to form a new crew in St. Paul, Minnesota. The crew robs a bank in Grand Haven, Michigan, but the meticulous plan falls apart almost immediately.

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BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 2 | “Escalation” Dec 20, 2023

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Lester Gillis – known as George Nelson, nicknamed Baby Face Nelson – wants to graduate from home invasion to bank robbery. His crew targets small-town banks with varying degrees of success, and their streak doesn’t last long. Nelson gets arrested and sent to prison, but he proves he’s resourceful and has no intention of staying behind bars.

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BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 1 | “Home Invasion” Dec 13, 2023

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Lester Gillis shows a restless spirit at a young age and soon begins his criminal career with a gang that specializes in home invasions. His crew makes a name for itself during Chicago’s crime wave of 1930, and he receives the nickname that sticks with him for the rest of his short life.

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HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 6 | Black Dahlia, Part 4 Nov 08, 2023

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Investigators and prosecutors build a case against Dr. George Hodel for the murder of Elizabeth Short. But for an unknown reason, it doesn’t lead to an arrest or an indictment. Dr. Hodel moves on with his life, even as he is suspected of multiple crimes, including multiple murders. Decades after the Black Dahlia murder, Hodel’s son Steve investigates the case and concludes that his father was, without a doubt, the elusive killer.

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HOLLYWOOD MURDER Ep. 5 | Black Dahlia, Part 3 Nov 01, 2023

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Investigators struggle to find clues which will lead them to the killer. Suspects are interviewed and cleared. And then, the presumed Black Dahlia killer contacts a Los Angeles newspaper and provides chilling information about the crime and the victim, Elizabeth Short. But the investigation stalls until the police become aware of a new suspect, Dr. George Hodel, who seems to fit all the criteria of the killer.

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