Wicked Adirondacks
Wicked Adirondacks
by Dennis Webster
English | EPUB | 3.6 MB
by Dennis Webster
English | EPUB | 3.6 MB
While the Adirondack Mountains are New York’s mostbeautiful region, they have also been plagued by insidious crimes and the nastyescapades of notorious lawbreakers. In 1935, public enemy number one, DutchSchultz, went on trial and was acquitted in an Adirondack courtroom. Crookshave tried creative methods to sidestep forestry laws that protect the flora ofthe state park. Members of the infamous Windfall Gang, led by CharlesWadsworth, terrorized towns and hid out in the high mountains until theirdramatic 1899 capture. In the 1970s, the Adirondack Serial Killer, RobertFrancis Garrow, petrified campers in the hills. Join local author DennisWebster as he explores the wicked deeds and sinister characters hidden amongthe Adirondacks’ peaks.