{"product_id":"beyond-cold-blood-the-kbi-from-ma-barker-to-btk-9780700620166","title":"Beyond Cold Blood: The Kbi from Ma Barker to Btk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMa Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1933 and 1938, thirty bank robberies occurred in Kansas, while livestock thefts also grew at an alarming rate. Little wonder, then, that pressure was brought to bear on the state legislature to create a Kansas counterpart to the Texas Rangers or FBI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Larry Welch, tenth director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, now provides readers with the first history of that agency, spanning the years 1939-2007. His account includes, among other things, detailed case studies of the KBI's participation in the high-profile arrests of serial killers Francis Donald Nemechek of western Kansas and Dennis Rader, the infamous BTK of Wichita.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis taut chapters also highlight the relentless investigators, dedicated forensic scientists, crime analysts, and everyone else who has labored on behalf of the KBI's pursuit of justice. They take readers behind the headlines to reveal how KBI agents played a key role in capturing Richard Hickock and Perry Smith of In Cold Blood fame, and consider other high-profile cases such as Gary Kleypas's murder of a Pittsburg State student and KU student Shannon Martin's killing in Costa Rica.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn between the Great Depression and World War II as a select group of ten investigators, the bureau's earliest assignments reflected the needs of the time: bank robbery, homicide, gangsters, livestock theft (especially cattle rustling), and narcotics (notably marihuana weed). Welch shares the episode that established the KBI in the public eye, an attempted 1941 bank robbery in Macksville where two escapees from Lansing prison refused to surrender and died in a Main Street shootout with KBI agents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe then brings readers up to the activities of today's staff of 300--including a Cold Case Squad and state-of-the-art forensic labs--as it tackles the scourge of the new century, methamphetamine, and cybercrime, including child pornography and identity theft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will thrill by the persistence and ingenuity evidenced by these accounts of bringing infamous criminals to justice--and even exonerating the wrongly convicted. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Cold Blood\u003c\/i\u003e blends true crime and institutional history to make must reading for all aficionados of danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Welch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700620166\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWelch, Larry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Larry Welch directed the KBI from 1994-2007. He also served as a special agent and supervisor for the FBI from 1961-1986. His extensive writings have appeared in publications such as Kansas Peace Officer and Kansas Sheriff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40463821209715,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":37.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_366e999a-2ac3-49ab-a978-7782d7d5766d.jpg?v=1663940489","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/beyond-cold-blood-the-kbi-from-ma-barker-to-btk-9780700620166","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}