Midwest Vice - A Chain of Midcentury Sex Trafficking and Murder

This book delves into four interconnected murders, each of them unsolved, in which the common denominator is the underground world of sex trafficking. Using police and FBI records never before made public, underworld links are made between numerous vice centers in the Midwest. What does a small mining town in upper Michigan have to do with organized crime in Peoria, Illinois? More than you might think!
Within these pages, meet corrupt night club owners, dancers who moonlight as callgirls, interstate burglary rings, Milwaukee Mafia members, bank robbers and more. All part of one giant web, they come together in a story that has remained largely untold--until now.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Jay Bass

Midwest Vice: Hurley, Wisconsin

The Peoria Underworld¿

Interlude: Malcolm O'Bannon

Interlude: Milwaukee Jazz¿

Izzy Pogrob and the Brass Rail¿

The O'Bannon Gang, Part Two: Robert Langenour

The Return of Willard Woodring¿

The Continuing Saga of Layton and Fordyce

Further Suspects

Addendum: Where Did They Go?

Chapter Notes

Index

About the author

Gavin Schmitt is a local historian working in northeast Wisconsin. He has previously written on Milwaukee organized crime, the Menominee tribe, as well as various film topics for Horrorhound magazine.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Schmitt, Schmitt Gavin
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2024
• EAN: 9781476690889
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-9088-9
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; True Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TRUE CRIME / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, US Midwest, North Central & Mid-West States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Trafficking, Modern slavery / Human trafficking