Fatal Drop

The Weirdest Tales of Chicago Crime! Discover a book of Chicago crime like no other you have ever seen before as Weird Chicago historian Bill Griffith presents the first volume ever produced about the true tales of the Windy City's gallows! Journey back in time to the days of public hangings and then discover the history of the city's old jail, the gruesome executions, the bizarre events, the terrible criminals, the cold-blooded killers, the strange Frankenstein-like experiments on the corpses of the dead - and even some of the ghosts that lingered behind! There is no other book like this one in the annals of Chicago crime literature and it's one that only the creators of the Weird Chicago Tours can bring you! Filled with remarkable anecdotes, strange history, dark deeds and plenty of contemporary photographs, this is the most chilling and gut-wrenching collection of Windy City crime stories ever put to paper. You'll be turning the pages of this one long into the night!