Blood on the Asphalt: True Crime on Route 66
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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
26.10.2026
Verlag
Wade CallowaySeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1993 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798237667585
A family asleep in a car on the roadside, a one-night motel, a neon sign over a crime scene: Route 66 has another history.
On November 11, 2026, Route 66 turns one hundred. Plenty of books celebrate the nostalgia, the milkshakes and the Cadillacs. Blood on the Asphalt follows the Mother Road from Illinois to California to the places the anniversary celebrations rarely mention: cases that happened along the road, ended on it, or earned it a troubling reputation.
What you will find inside:
- The FBI and the I-40/66 corridor: how an analyst in Oklahoma recognized a pattern that became the Highway Serial Killings Initiative
- Illinois and Missouri: the murder of Regina Kay Walters, the Kerry sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge, Bonnie and Clyde in Joplin, the kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease, and Galena's "Murder Bordello"
- Oklahoma and Texas: Pretty Boy Floyd in the Cookson Hills, and what the Cadillac Ranch has to do with an unresolved criminal case
- New Mexico and Arizona: Joan Vance in Tucumcari, the Cowboy Motel, the 1935 disappearance of the Lorius and Heberer couples, the "Apache Death Cave" at Two Guns, and the murders of J. D. and Utha Marie Welch near Seligman
The book also includes a timeline of cases and proceedings (1897-2025), a geographic index, a glossary of crime and investigation terms, an appendix on places near the Mother Road but not on it, and a bibliography with sources.
Careful, not sensational. The book names its sources and separates what is documented from what is told: charge from conviction, suspicion from proof, legend from history. Victims are people, not scenery. It also makes clear which famous places are not on Route 66 at all.
Perfect for: readers of true crime and criminal history · travelers who want to understand Route 66 beyond the postcard · anyone curious about what lies behind the legends at the side of the road.
Get in. Beneath the neon lies a longer, harder story.
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