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Ride Ohio's rails with some of the bravest trainmen and most vicious killers and robbers to ever roll down the tracks. The West may have had Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but Ohio had its own brand of train robbers. Discover how Alvin Karpis knocked off an Erie Railroad train and escaped with $34,000. Learn about the first peacetime train holdup that took place in North Bend when thieves derailed the Kate Jackson, robbed its passengers and blew the Adam's Express safe. Make no mistake--railroading was a dangerous job in bygone days.
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Jane Ann Turzillo is a double Agatha Award nominee and several-time National Federation of Press Women award winner. She writes about and gives presentations on true crimes in Ohio history. As an original owner of a large Ohio weekly newspaper, she covered police and fire news and wrote a historical column. She is the author of seven books, the latest is Wicked Women in Ohio. Many of her short stories and articles have been published in newspapers and magazines across the United States and Canada. She holds degrees in Criminal Justice Technology and Mass-Media Communication from The University of Akron. Her memberships include Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime (immediate past president of the Northeast Ohio chapter) , Society of Professional Journalists and National Federation of Press Women. Visit her at www.janeannturzillo.com or http://darkheartedwomen.wordpress.com
