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Harry Powers
Harry F. Powers (born Harm Drenth; November 17, 1892 – March 18, 1932) was a Dutch-born American serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia. Powers lured his victims through " lonely hearts" advertisements, claiming he was looking for love, but ultimately murdering them for their money. Davis Grubb's 1953 novel '' The Night of the Hunter'' and its 1955 film adaptation and 1991 TV adaptation were based on these crimes, with Preacher Harry Powell being the character inspired by Powers. Preacher was played by Robert Mitchum in the 1955 film and by Richard Chamberlain in the 1991 TV movie. Jayne Anne Phillips's novel ''Quiet Dell'' (2013) examined the Powers case anew. Sergio Aquindo's graphic novel ''Harry & the helpless children'' (2012) traces the killer's career and the fascination the case aroused in the press at the time. Early life He was born as Harm Drenth in 1892 in Beerta, the Netherlands. He immigrated to the United States in 1910, first l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beerta, Groningen
Beerta (; ) is a village and former municipality with a population of 2,205 in the municipality of Oldambt in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. In the 20th century, Beerta was a communist stronghold. In 1933, the municipal council was dismissed by the government, and was ruled by a until 1935. Between 1982 and 1990, Beerta was the only municipality with a communist mayor. Etymology Beerta means "place with houses" (English: neigh''boor''hood; Frisian: '' buorren'') The name was sometimes explained as relating to the 12th century which was lost in a flood, however the monastery has been excavated in Hesel, East Frisia, Germany, in 1988. History The Dollart is a bay in the Wadden Sea which was gradually expanding in size. Around 1600, it peaked at around . Beerta was located on higher ground, and became a peninsula in the bay. The village dates from the 11th century. The expanding Dollart implied that parts of Beerta were moved to higher ground. The Saint Barth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is a former English professor at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark. Education Phillips graduated from West Virginia University, earning a B.A. in 1974, and later received an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Teaching Phillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, Brandeis University, and Boston University. She is currently Professor of English and founder/director of the Rutgers University–Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. In 2007, ''The Atlantic'' magazine named Phillips' MFA program at Rutgers–Newark to its list of "Five Up-and-Coming" creative writing programs in the United States. Writing caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in West Virginia, eighth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Micropolitan statistical area, Fairmont micropolitan area, which includes all of Marion County in North Central West Virginia and had a population of 56,205 in 2020. Fairmont is also a principal city of the larger Morgantown metropolitan area, Morgantown–Fairmont combined statistical area. The city is home to Fairmont State University, serving more than 3,000 students. History Early settlements In the eighteenth century, the earliest development of Fairmont consisted of subsistence farming human settlement, settlements. In 1789, Boaz Fleming, a American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War veteran, migrated to western Virginia and purchased a 254-acre farm from Jonathan Bozarth. In 1808, Flem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northborough, Massachusetts
Northborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The official spelling of the town's name is "Northborough," but the alternative spelling "Northboro" is also used. The population was 15,741 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History The areas surrounding Northborough were first settled by the Nipmuc people. Europeans set up a plantation on May 14, 1656, following a petition for resettlement from the people of the Sudbury, Massachusetts, Sudbury Plantation to the Massachusetts General Court, General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bay Colony. On January 23, 1766, the district of Northborough was established within neighboring Westborough. On August 23, 1775, the district became a town, and on June 20, 1807, part of neighboring Marlborough was annexed to Northborough. The first Colonial meeting house, meeting house was established in 1746, with the legal governor of the town being called the Town Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgery
Forgery is a white-collar crime that generally consists of the false making or material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific mens rea, intent to wikt:defraud#English, defraud. Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidden by law in some jurisdictions but such an offense is not related to forgery unless the tampered legal instrument was actually used in the course of the crime to defraud another person or entity. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful misrepresentations. Forging money or currency is more often called counterfeiting. But consumer goods may also be ''counterfeits'' if they are not manufactured or produced by the designated manufacturer or producer given on the label or flagged by the trademark symbol. When the object forged is a record or document it is often called a false document. This usage of "forgery" does not derive from Metalwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Ridge, Illinois
Park Ridge is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 39,656. It is located north of downtown Chicago. It is close to O'Hare International Airport, major expressways, and rail transportation. It is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area, bordering three official neighborhoods on Chicago's Community areas of Chicago#Far North-West side, Far Northwest Side (Edison Park, Chicago, Edison Park, Norwood Park, Chicago, Norwood Park, and O'Hare, Chicago, O'Hare.) The soil is abundant with clay deposits, which made it a brick-making center for the developing city of Chicago. Park Ridge was originally called Pennyville to honor George Penny, the businessman who owned the local brickyard along with Robert Meacham. Later it was named Brickton. The Des Plaines River divides Park Ridge from neighboring Des Plaines, Illinois, Des Plaines, which is west of Park Ridge. Chicago is south and east o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris, Illinois
Morris is a city in and the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area. The population was 14,163 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. A team of ten anthropologists and sociologists from nearby University of Chicago studied the city in depth and reported its findings in W. Lloyd Warner, editor, ''Democracy in Jonesville: A Study of Quality and Inequality'' (1949). Description Morris is the Grundy County seat and has a large hospital and modern schools. It is home to the Morris Community High School Redskins, who have won three state championships in football. There are many small parks, ball diamonds, tennis courts, two golf courses, an outdoor swimming pool, an indoor short course pool as well as the Gebhard Woods State Park and the William G. Stratton State Park for boat launching on the Illinois River and a skatepark located near White Oak elementary school. Morris Community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Doe
John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the British, Canadian, and American legal systems, when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. In the context of law enforcement in the United States, such names are often used to refer to a corpse whose identity is unknown or cannot be confirmed. These names are also often used to refer to a hypothetical " everyman" in other contexts, like John Q. Public or "Joe Public". There are many variants to the above names, including John (or Richard)/Jane Roe, John/Jane Smith, John/Jane Bloggs, and Johnie/Janie Doe or just Baby Doe for children. A. N. Other is also a placeholder name, mainly used in the United Kingdomwhich is gender neutralalongside Joe/Jo Bloggs and the now occasional use of the "John" and "Jane Doe" names. In criminal investigation In other English-speaking countries, unique placeholder names, numbers or codenames have become more often use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barron County, Wisconsin
Barron County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,711. Its county seat is Barron. The county was created in 1859 and organized in 1874. History The county was created in 1859 as Dallas County (named after Vice President George M. Dallas), with the county seat located at Barron. It was renamed Barron County on March 4, 1869. The county's name honors Wisconsin lawyer and politician Henry D. Barron, who served as circuit judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Barron County was organized in 1874. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a community of Russian immigrants moved to Barron County. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (3.0%) is water. Adjacent counties * Washburn County – north * Sawyer County – northeast * Rusk County – east * Chippewa County – southeast * Dunn County – south * St. Croix County – southwest * Polk County � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burglary
Burglary, also called breaking and entering (B&E) or housebreaking, is a property crime involving the illegal entry into a building or other area without permission, typically with the intention of committing a further criminal offence. Usually that offence is theft, larceny, robbery, or murder, but most jurisdictions include others within the ambit of burglary. To commit burglary is to ''burgle'', a term back-formed from the word ''burglar'', or to ''burglarize''. Etymology Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634) explains at the start of Chapter 14 in the third part of '' Institutes of the Lawes of England'' (pub. 1644), that the word ''Burglar'' ("or the person that committeth burglary"), is derived from the words ''burgh'' and ''laron'', meaning ''house-thieves''. A note indicates he relies on the ''Brooke's case'' for this definition. According to one textbook, the etymology originates from Anglo-Saxon or Old English, one of the Germanic languages. (Perhaps paraphrasing Sir Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incarcerated
Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered "false imprisonment". Imprisonment does not necessarily imply a place of confinement with bolts and bars, but may be exercised by any use or display of force (such as placing one in handcuffs), lawfully or unlawfully, wherever displayed, even in the open street. People become prisoners, wherever they may be, by the mere word or touch of a duly authorized officer directed to that end. Usually, however, imprisonment is understood to imply actual confinement against one's will in a prison employed for the purpose according to the provisions of the law. Generally gender imbalances occur in imprisonment rates, with incarceration of males proportionately more likely than incarceration of females. History Africa Before colonisation, imprisonment was used in sub-Saharan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiet Dell, West Virginia
Quiet Dell is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. Quiet Dell is located at the junction of Interstate 79 and West Virginia Route 20, southeast of Clarksburg. Community The community's name is descriptive. The area is primarily single-family residential in nature on large lots. Key retail businesses in Quiet Dell include the 7-Eleven- BP and Exxon gas stations, Dollar General, and Stonewood Bulk Foods. Several businesses related to the oil and gas industry are based within the community. Tourist attractions include the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Museum in the old school, and Primitives, a crafting cooperative. The historic Quiet Dell United Methodist Church, dating from 1896, is also located here. History In 1931, Quiet Dell was the scene of multiple murders committed by serial killer Harry Powers (Herman Drenth). The Quiet Dell School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
