The Battle of Plattsburgh Question and Answer Book

Lawrence. P. Gooley

Bloated Toe Enterprises

A history of the Altona Flat Rock

Few sports teams have achieved the fame and notoriety attained by the Chazy boys' soccer team. In fifty-three years of high school competition played in four different leagues, the Eagles have had only four regular season campaigns where they did not have a winning record.\nWhen they started league play in 1953, the Eagles finished with no wins. In 1955, only their third year of league competition, they won their first sectional championship. Other titles followed through 1964, but in 1965, Chazy soccer entered a new era with the arrival of Coach George Brendler.\nBrendler took a good team, taught them to play his style of soccer, and took the North Country by storm. No matter who the opponent was, no matter how big the school might be; more often than not, the Chazy Eagles cut them down to size. Brendler's career at the helm lasted for twenty-four years. When he retired from coaching after the 1988 season, he left a tremendous legacy.\nThe Eagles' continued success can be traced to its roots many decades earlier, in the person of George Brendler. George Brendler was a great soccer coach, but he was much more than that. He was an American child and a Hungarian child, a victim of the Great Depression, and witness to the worst war in history. He was a soldier, a student, a teacher, and a husband and father.

Brendler's Boys: The House That George Built

In the summer of 1973, a serial killer's rampage in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State changed the region forever. Innocent visitors and campers were brutally knifed to death, terrifying thousands of residents and vacationers. A peaceful part of America was lost, as people armed themselves and locked their doors, living and sleeping in fear. It was a reign of terror the likes of which the mountains had never seen. And it was all the vile handiwork of one very troubled, dangerous man: Robert Francis Garrow. But there is much more to Garrow's story than a series of murders. Before he was captured, there was the longest manhunt in Adirondack history, and one of the longest the state has ever seen. There was a bizarre trial, with horrifying revelations that shocked the senses of citizens from coast to coast. There was also Robert Garrow's unfortunate, unbelievable childhood, including horrific beatings, bestiality, bloodshed, and more. There was his secret life of crime as an adult, his frequent improbable escapes from the law, his years in maximum-security prisons, and his incredible manipulation of legal, medical, and correctional professionals right up to the state level. The case also spawned a nationwide debate about legal ethics, and eventually became the testing ground for one of the basic tenets of the American legal system. Today, it is discussed in virtually every college course addressing legal ethics and client confidentiality. Garrow was a serial rapist and serial killer, but his number of victims may never be known. He admitted to several such crimes, but there may be many others forever relegated to cold case files from central New York north to the Canadian border. It's an incredible story, and it's all here. For the first time ever, Robert F. Garrow's story from birth to grave. Not a pretty part of Adirondack history, but a part of it nonetheless. 216 Pages. Paperback. 2009.

Terror in the Adirondacks: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert F. Garrow

Bloated Toe Publishing

Adirondack and North Country Gold : 50+ New and True Stories You're Sure to Love

Within these pages are twenty-five complete stories of murder in the North Country. The perpetrators range from average citizens to some of the worst degenerates imaginable. Their methods run the gamut from poison to clubs to knives to guns to axes, while their stories contain shocking revelations and remarkable twists, far too many to count. And some are just plain unusual.These true chronicles from long ago once held readers spellbound, and are as riveting as many of the high-profile murder cases in modern media. It's at once fascinating and disturbing to explore the devious minds of those who walk among us.If you enjoy cold-case homicides, true murder stories, or the darker side of Adirondack history, then this book is for you.

25 Diabolical Adirondack Murders

Clinton Prison has hosted the best and worst criminals in the country, from gentlemen scam artists and bank robbers, to vicious serial killers. . . . Included within these pages are those stories and much more -- ingenious breakout artists and how they escaped, details on severe punishments and tortures imposed at Clinton for a half century, and profiles of dozens of the most famous, infamous, and unusual prisoners ever confined within Dannemora's walls. . . . In all its forms, the prison has seen dozens of remarkable escapes, some of them more amazing than the 2015 breakout. For nearly its full 170 years, inmates have considered Clinton the toughest facility in the state, a reputation based on its violent history. [From the back cover]

Escape From Dannemora

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Bloated Toe Press

Inside are the stories of 41 murderers who were sentenced to die in Dannemora's electric chair. Graphic details of many brutal attacks are covered, including victims' injuries as provided in coroner and autopsy reports, so this is not a book for the squeamish-but it is a book for fans of true-crime stories. There's plenty of drama, passion, and angst throughout in stories ranging from shocking to frightening to just plain remarkable.

Dannemora's Death House

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