Wisconsin Road Guide to Gangster Hot Spots

Monday, August 2nd at 6pm

Wisconsin Road Guide to Gangster Hot Spots:
Turning the Badger State into the Crime State
@ Your Beaver Dam Community Library

Chad Lewis is a researcher, author and lecturer on topics of strange and unusual. He has a Masters of Science degree in Psychology and has traveled the globe in search of unique and bizarre stories and history. Join us for an evening of Wisconsin gangster legends!

Put on your zoot suit and follow in the footsteps of America's most infamous gangsters as they turned Wisconsin into their personal criminal vacationland. This revealing program and book are filled with deadly bank robberies, explosive shootouts, brutal gangland retaliations, and daring escapes, and lets you uncover the grisly locations where the gangster history will never die. Go on the lam and discover where: Baby Face Nelson, crashed his car, spent the night, and mowed down anyone who got in his way. Al Capone hid out from the law while smuggling in his illegal liquor. The gangsters favorite hangouts where they danced the night away. John Dillinger had his bloody shootout with the authorities. The deadly Barker-Karpis gang disposed of their enemies.

*Books available for purchase at the Beaver Dam Book World*