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James G. Hollock Born to Lose (Paperback) True Crime History
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- Book Title
- Born to Lose
- Title
- Born to Lose
- Subtitle
- Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
- Contributor
- James Jessen Badal (Foreword by)
- EAN
- 9781606350973
- ISBN
- 9781606350973
- Genre
- Biography
- Topic
- Social Sciences
- Release Year
- 2011
- Release Date
- 30/04/2011
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 178mm
- Item Weight
- 614g
- Series
- True Crime History
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
- Item Height
- 235mm
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Item Width
- 178mm
- Subject
- Criminology
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2012 IN TRUE CRIME FINALIST, FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In Born to Lose, author James G. Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors at the age of fourteen to a daring rooftop escape from the Allegheny Workhouse in Blawnox, Pennsylvania, where he was being held on a rape charge, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, to the kidnapping near Cumberland, Maryland, and his ultimate murder of Linda Peugeot and her two-year-old daughter Lori in the autumn of 1969. Their bodies have never been found. Although indicted for the Peugeot kidnappings, these charges were later dropped because it was determined his constitutional right to a speedy trial was denied. Hoss was, however, convicted of the murder of Officer Zanella and initially sentenced to death, and that sentence was subsequently commuted to life in prison. But his killings didn't end there. In December 1973, while incarcerated at Western Penitentiary, Hoss conspired with two fellow white inmates in the savage murder of the popular and well-respected corrections officer Lieutenant Walter Peterson, one of the first African Americans hired by the Pennsylvania prison system. As a result of this final homicide, Hoss was transferred to an isolation facility in Philadelphia where in 1978 he hanged himself. By consulting previously sealed state and federal archives and interviewing sixty individuals who witnessed or had significant knowledge of Hoss's series of felonies, James G. Hollock vividly re-creates the crimes, police dispatches, and court proceedings in this gripping narrative. He poignantly characterizes the players involved, especially those who suffered either directly or indirectly at the hands of Stanley B. Hoss.
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Kent State University Press
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9781606350973
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Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Criminology
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
408 Pages
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235mm
Item Width
178mm
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True Crime History
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United States
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