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The Cincinnati Strangler

Dennis Whitehead

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Description:The Cincinnati Strangler is the nonfiction true crime account of a series of strangulation murders in the mid-1960s that gripped conservative, midwestern Cincinnati, Ohio from December 1965 to December 1966. Fear blanketed mid-1960s Cincinnati, Ohio as a killer randomly, and brutally, was strangling older women across the city, leaving police without clues to the man's identity. Nerves were already frayed amid racial violence at home and an escalating war abroad; growing to a boil as police focused their entire search for the killer, upon a single, unknown Black man. They unleashed a citywide roundup of Black men without cause, other than the color of their skin. The arrest and conviction of twenty-nine-year-old Posteal Laskey, Jr. in an unrelated murder brought a sigh of relief to the populace as police insisted they had their man. The perceived injustice in Laskey's conviction brought people to the streets in protest during the long, hot summer of 1967. The arrest of Laskey's cousin carrying a sign, "Laskey Innocent, Cincinnati Guilty," engulfed Cincinnati in flames. Laskey's trial occurred within the justice system of a city seeking vengeance. Found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a young woman, Laskey was sentenced to die in the electric chair, later commuted to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. Despite years of positive achievements while incarcerated and rapidly failing health, public uproar in opposition to Laskey's parole left him behind bars where he died in 2007, just shy of his 70th birthday. The stories of the murders, police investigations, court proceedings, and life imprisonment are drawn from thousands of pages of original source materials. As the 60th anniversary of the year of the strangler approaches, the legend of the Cincinnati Strangler remains alive and synonymous with Posteal Laskey, Jr. The Cincinnati Strangler, while presenting evidence from thousands of pages of documents, does not draw conclusions; rather, leaving it up to the reader to decide on their own.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cincinnati Strangler. To get started finding The Cincinnati Strangler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2025

ISBN: 9798999229809

Description: The Cincinnati Strangler is the nonfiction true crime account of a series of strangulation murders in the mid-1960s that gripped conservative, midwestern Cincinnati, Ohio from December 1965 to December 1966. Fear blanketed mid-1960s Cincinnati, Ohio as a killer randomly, and brutally, was strangling older women across the city, leaving police without clues to the man's identity. Nerves were already frayed amid racial violence at home and an escalating war abroad; growing to a boil as police focused their entire search for the killer, upon a single, unknown Black man. They unleashed a citywide roundup of Black men without cause, other than the color of their skin. The arrest and conviction of twenty-nine-year-old Posteal Laskey, Jr. in an unrelated murder brought a sigh of relief to the populace as police insisted they had their man. The perceived injustice in Laskey's conviction brought people to the streets in protest during the long, hot summer of 1967. The arrest of Laskey's cousin carrying a sign, "Laskey Innocent, Cincinnati Guilty," engulfed Cincinnati in flames. Laskey's trial occurred within the justice system of a city seeking vengeance. Found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a young woman, Laskey was sentenced to die in the electric chair, later commuted to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. Despite years of positive achievements while incarcerated and rapidly failing health, public uproar in opposition to Laskey's parole left him behind bars where he died in 2007, just shy of his 70th birthday. The stories of the murders, police investigations, court proceedings, and life imprisonment are drawn from thousands of pages of original source materials. As the 60th anniversary of the year of the strangler approaches, the legend of the Cincinnati Strangler remains alive and synonymous with Posteal Laskey, Jr. The Cincinnati Strangler, while presenting evidence from thousands of pages of documents, does not draw conclusions; rather, leaving it up to the reader to decide on their own.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cincinnati Strangler. To get started finding The Cincinnati Strangler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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