William J. Helmer

A Case of Bad Timing and Poor Judgment The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." O...

The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured i...

If American crime had a golden age, it was between 1920 and 1940-the roller-coaster years when a rural nation became urbanized and the nineteenth century finally gave way to the twentieth. The same fo...