Crime and Justice in Fort Wayne History

Fort Wayne, Indiana · topic

Crime and Justice in Fort Wayne History

Crime, robberies, murder cases and cold cases.

United States Court House and Post Office, Fort Wayne, Indiana (built 1861), circa 1901 Public domain · source file

Fort Wayne Crime History: Jails, Vice, Prohibition and GangsCrime · the historical recordThis section holds Fort Wayne's documented history of crime and punishment from the county's first courts to the end of the twentieth century: the jails and the scaffold, the vice districts, the Prohibition wars, the…

Fort Wayne Bank Robberies: The Documented CasesBank Robberies · the documented casesFort Wayne's banks are chronicled in the Banks section, and its crime in the Crime section. This section holds the narrow ground where the two meet: the times men took money out of a Fort Wayne bank by force or by…8 entry pages

Serial Killers and Fort Wayne: What the Record ShowsEvery American city of any age eventually asks the question, usually in the form of a name half-remembered from a headline: did we have one of those? This section answers it for Fort Wayne from the court and press…§ 41Fort Wayne's High-Profile Murder CasesHigh-Profile Murders · the cases that defined the city's erasEvery era of Fort Wayne has a murder case it cannot put down. In the nineteenth century they were the trials the newspapers sold out on and the hangings the whole county attended. In the twentieth and twenty-first they…10 entry pages § 42Fort Wayne Cold Cases and Unsolved MysteriesUnsolved Mysteries · the open filesThe main Crime section of this history closes at the end of the twentieth century, and it closes its cases: the scaffold, the Prohibition wars, the murders that were tried. This section is its companion — the cases that…10 entry pages

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Source: Crime and Justice in Fort Wayne History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/crime/

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