Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic Record of Remarkable Cases
Charles C. Bombaugh , John B. Lewis
93 chapters · 32 h 30 min · English
Read by Availle, mleigh, Larry Wilson, Anna Goss, Doyle Sanders, Veronica Maresh Mead and others
True Crime
Play ☆ Favorite
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples.
The present . . . volume is . . . commended as a trustworthy record to those for whose use and reference it is primarily intended, life insurance companies and agents, medical examiners, insurance lawyers, and medico-legal experts. . . . [It] is not confined to the exposure of the cunning contrivances and artifices of this class of schemers and plotters; it includes picturesque views of detection and punishment; of the determined efforts of the companies, at whatever cost, to run them down; of the machinery of courts of justice; of the gloom of the prison cell; of the dark outlines of the scaffold. The cases in this book are for the most part more suggestive or instructive to detective agencies than to conspirators. . . . These narratives also show that no community has a monopoly of the piratical adventurers who thus prey upon beneficent institutions. They are of all nationalities as well as of both sexes, and everywhere alike "to no code or creed confined." - Summary by TriciaG and from the Preface
Chapters
1 Preface 6 min 2 Pretended Death, Part 1 27 min 3 Pretended Death, Part 2: Forged Certification 39 min 4 Pretended Death, Part 3: False Personation of Applicant 21 min 5 Pretended Death, Part 4: Fictitious Substitution 31 min 6 Pretended Death, Part 5 18 min 7 Speculative Insurance: Part 1: Gambling 13 min 8 Speculative Insurance, Part 2: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic 17 min 9 Speculative Insurance, Part 3: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic, cont'd 16 min 10 Speculative Insurance, Part 4: The Belfast Scandal 32 min 11 Speculative Insurance, Part 5: The Blackburn Gamblers 10 min 12 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 1: Inferences and Presumptions of Death 23 min 13 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 2 12 min 14 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 3 21 min 15 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 4: A Savannah River Case 29 min 16 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 5: Charles and Martha 37 min 17 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 6 27 min 18 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 7 15 min 19 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 8 33 min 20 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 9: Monotonous Reptition of the Drowning Trick 14 min 21 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 10: A Welsh Deserter 10 min 22 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 11: The Burning in Place of the Drowning Trick 25 min 23 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 12: The Mariano Rubio Case 20 min 24 Mysterious Disappearances, Part 13: The Hillmon Concealment 27 min 25 Homicide, Part 1: Poisoning and More Violent Forms of Assassination 32 min 26 Homicide, Part 2: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 1 23 min 27 Homicide, Part 3: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 2 26 min 28 Homicide, Part 4: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 3 21 min 29 Homicide, Part 5: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 4 21 min 30 Homicide, Part 6: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 5 22 min 31 Homicide, Part 7: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 6 17 min 32 Homicide, Part 8: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 7 24 min 33 Homicide, Part 9: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 8 20 min 34 Homicide, Part 10: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 9 17 min 35 Homicide, Part 11: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 10 21 min 36 Homicide, Part 12: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 11 21 min 37 Homicide, Part 13: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 12 22 min 38 Homicide, Part 14: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 13 19 min 39 Homicide, Part 15: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 14 20 min 40 Homicide, Part 16: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 15 20 min 41 Homicide, Part 17: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 16 23 min 42 Homicide, Part 18: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 17 23 min 43 Homicide, Part 19: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 18 25 min 44 Homicide, Part 20: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 19 26 min 45 Homicide, Part 21: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 20 29 min 46 Homicide, Part 22: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 1 21 min 47 Homicide, Part 23: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 2 21 min 48 Homicide, Part 24: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 3 20 min 49 Homicide, Part 25: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 1 22 min 50 Homicide, Part 26: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 2 23 min 51 Homicide, Part 27: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 3 16 min 52 Homicide, Part 28: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 4 21 min 53 Homicide, Part 29: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 5 28 min 54 Homicide, Part 30: The Hunter-Armstrong Tragedy 33 min 55 Homicide, Part 31: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 1 24 min 56 Homicide, Part 32: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 2 25 min 57 Homicide, Part 33: The Hendryx Case 16 min 58 Homicide, Part 34: The Professor West Infamy 22 min 59 Homicide, Part 35: The Wichita Outlaws, Winner and McNutt; Count Pommerais and Madame Pauw 20 min 60 Homicide, Part 36: The Hartung Crime 12 min 61 Homicide, Part 37: Katherine Ging, the Dupe and Victim of Harry Hayward 30 min 62 Homicide, Part 38: The Monster Holmes, part 1 26 min 63 Homicide, Part 39: The Monster Holmes, part 2 28 min 64 Homicide, Part 40: A Dramatic California Incident 11 min 65 Homicide, Part 41: A French Wife Destroyer; An Austrian Triple Wife Murder; A Sensational Poisoning Case in Prussia 16 min 66 Female Poisoners, Part 1: The Belgian Poisoner, Madame Joniaux 13 min 67 Female Poisoners, Part 2: A Famous Kansas Matricide 19 min 68 Female Poisoners, Part 3 14 min 69 Female Poisoners, Part 4 15 min 70 Suicide, Part 1 8 min 71 Suicide, Part 2: Colvocoresses, part 1 26 min 72 Suicide, Part 3: Colvocoresses, part 2 30 min 73 Suicide, Part 4: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 1 16 min 74 Suicide, Part 5: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 2 17 min 75 Suicide, Part 6: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 3 20 min 76 Suicide, Part 7: Jacob C. Wallis, part 1 18 min 77 Suicide, Part 8: Jacob C. Wallis, part 2 18 min 78 Suicide, Part 9: A Hungarian Nobleman's Strategem; The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 1 24 min 79 Suicide, Part 10: The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 2 31 min 80 Problematical Cases, Part 1: Walton Dwight, part 1 20 min 81 Problematical Cases, Part 2: Walton Dwight, part 2 14 min 82 Problematical Cases, Part 3: Walton Dwight, part 3 19 min 83 Problematical Cases, Part 4: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 1 19 min 84 Problematical Cases, Part 5: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 2 23 min 85 Problematical Cases, Part 6: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 1 17 min 86 Problematical Cases, Part 7: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 2 15 min 87 Problematical Cases, Part 8: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 3 17 min 88 Problematical Cases, Part 9: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 4 18 min 89 Problematical Cases, Part 10: The Maybrick Case 18 min 90 Problematical Cases, Part 11: The Austin Disappearance 19 min 91 Problematical Cases, Part 12: A Question of Identity; Mistaken Identity 21 min 92 Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 1 16 min 93 Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 2 17 min