
Join Joe Urschel, Executive Director of the National Law Enforcement Museum, for a discussion about his new book. The Year of Fear is a thrilling true story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI.

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History's Blotter: Borden Murders
“Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”
Or so the song goes ... While Lizzie Borden was arrested and tried for the brutal murder of her father and stepmother, the jury only deliberated for an hour before returning a verdict of not guilty.
Let's travel back to August 4, 1892 to learn about a moment in law enforcement history

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True Stories of Former G-men
It was the era of gangsters like Machine Gun Kelly, John Dillinger, the Barker-Karpis gang, and all the other’s that J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men sought to bring down. In honor of the upcoming release of our Executive Director’s book, The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt that Changed the Nation, we highlight some stories from FBI Agents who served during that era.

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