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This book is a compilation of true crime stories by prize-winning author Bruce Rubenstein, including ""The Milwaukee Avenue Massacre,"" the Chicago Magazine article that resulted in the pardon of four men who were wrongfully convicted of murder. ""Danny's Boat"" is a chronicle of modern-day piracy and murder involving a double-agent for the Mafia and the CIA. The book takes its title from the lead story, the saga of the O'Kasick gang, a band of armed robbers led by a sociopath who wanted to die in a shoot-out with the police. ""Star Stalker"" tells the tale of one of Hollywood's most dangerous stalkers, and ""Last Train"" goes inside the investigation of a string of hobo slayings, ultimately found to be the work of a serial killer.

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The Family That Couldn't Sleep at Night is a fascinating collection of true crime stories written by Bruce Rubenstein, a seasoned veteran of the genre. The author ran with and observed thugs, addicts, gang members and crime-minded miscreants since his teenage years. He has a direct, open, no extra bulls*** style and spares absolutely no effort in his research. I was struck by the colorful and varied names and monikers of the real people in his stories: Quakenbush, Zipp, Scalzetti, Cabeza, Cindy Pluff, Dog Man, Choo Choo Johson and Chester Z. Most of these ...True Stories of Murder and Mayhem , take place in the North Country of Minnesota, Wisconson, and a couple of neighboring states. Each tale begins with a helpful paragraph introducing the story. The title story Family That Couldn't Sleep at Night , is about three brothers that make up The O'Kasick Gang, who shoot two Minneapolis policeman, killing one and gravely injuring the other. The hunt for the killers by the authorities is complex, lengthy and a sensation in the region. The son of a well-known millionaire poet/artist in Danny's Boat is the victim of a gripping, twisted tale when he is murdered by the crewmen he hired for his yacht to take an impulsive voyage. The story takes detectives and then Rubenstein from Minneapolis to many cities and countries in this tragic story. Key Man is the story of the murder of a Minneapolis wholesale florist that destroys a family, displaying for the reader, The Good - Det. William Quinn of Minneapolis PD; The Bad - an unknown killer; The Ugly - Det. Russell Krueger, also of MPD, a heavy-handed brute who hung out with gangsters and took over as lead detective in the case. In the autobiographical Notes On My Sources Rubenstein tells his own excellent and moving tale of woe, when he took a 3-plus year vocational training course in Writing About Crime and Criminals in Sandstone Federal Prison without intending to.-Bill Savran

"The Family That Couldn't Sleep at Night is a fascinating collection of true crime stories written by Bruce Rubenstein, a seasoned veteran of the genre. The author ran with and observed thugs, addicts, gang members and crime-minded miscreants since his teenage years. He has a direct, open, no extra bulls*** style and spares absolutely no effort in his research. I was struck by the colorful and varied names and monikers of the real people in his stories: Quakenbush, Zipp, Scalzetti, Cabeza, Cindy Pluff, Dog Man, Choo Choo Johson and Chester Z. Most of these ""...True Stories of Murder and Mayhem"", take place in the North Country of Minnesota, Wisconson, and a couple of neighboring states. Each tale begins with a helpful paragraph introducing the story. The title story ""Family That Couldn't Sleep at Night"", is about three brothers that make up The O'Kasick Gang, who shoot two Minneapolis policeman, killing one and gravely injuring the other. The hunt for the killers by the authorities is complex, lengthy and a sensation in the region. The son of a well-known millionaire poet/artist in ""Danny's Boat"" is the victim of a gripping, twisted tale when he is murdered by the crewmen he hired for his yacht to take an impulsive voyage. The story takes detectives and then Rubenstein from Minneapolis to many cities and countries in this tragic story. ""Key Man"" is the story of the murder of a Minneapolis wholesale florist that destroys a family, displaying for the reader, The Good - Det. William Quinn of Minneapolis PD; The Bad - an unknown killer; The Ugly - Det. Russell Krueger, also of MPD, a heavy-handed brute who hung out with gangsters and took over as lead detective in the case. In the autobiographical ""Notes On My Sources"" Rubenstein tells his own excellent and moving tale of woe, when he took a 3-plus year vocational training course in Writing About Crime and Criminals in Sandstone Federal Prison without intending to.-Bill Savran"

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Bruce Rubenstein has published hundreds of true crime stories in weeklies and monthly magazines. In 1991 he received the Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Media Award for his Chicago Magazine article about the conviction of four Mexican immigrants for a quadruple homicide (dubbed ""The Milwaukee Avenue Massacre"" by the Sun Times) that they did not commit. They were serving the 12th year of their sentences of life without the possibility of parole when his article came out. As a result of his article, the governor of Illinois pardoned them. An anthology of his crime stories, titled Greed Rage and Love Gone Wrong, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2004. He won the Minnesota State Arts Council award for fiction in 1979 and published short stories in little magazines in the 70s and 80s. His story, ""Smoke got in My Eyes,"" written for the Akashic Books' anthology Twin Cities Noir (2006), was nominated for the Shamus Award. His short fiction has recently appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. His book about a notorious art theft, titled The Rockwell Heist was published by Borealis Press in March 2013.

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