The Murders That Made Us The Murders That Made Us

The Murders That Made Us

How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area

    • $12.99

Publisher Description

The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics


In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city’s earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer, crime has made the people of San Francisco who they are. Murder and mayhem are intertwined with the city’s art, music, and politics. The Great 1906 Earthquake that burned down the old Barbary Coast shook a city that was already teetering on the brink of a massive prostitution scandal. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly acid dealer slayings that made the Haight too violent for even Charles Manson. The ’70s ground to a halt with San Francisco pastor Jim Jones forcing his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch in Guyana, and the assassination of gay icon Harvey Milk. With each tale of true crime, The Murders That Made Us will take you from the violence that began in the original Gold Rush into the brutal displacement of today’s techie ruination.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2021
May 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
ECW Press
SELLER
ECW Press Ltd.
SIZE
14.9
MB
Undisclosed Files of the Police Undisclosed Files of the Police
2016
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
2004
American Serial Killers American Serial Killers
2021
The Killer Book of Serial Killers The Killer Book of Serial Killers
2009
Never Let Them See You Cry Never Let Them See You Cry
2014
The Kidnap Years The Kidnap Years
2020
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
2022
Among the Bros Among the Bros
2023
Enough Enough
2023
Confidence Man Confidence Man
2022
American Predator American Predator
2019
Rage Rage
2020