Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic R…


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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 (32 hr 29 min)

Chapters

Preface 5:39 Read by Availle
Pretended Death, Part 1 26:32 Read by mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 2: Forged Certification 39:08 Read by mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 3: False Personation of Applicant 20:53 Read by mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 4: Fictitious Substitution 30:50 Read by mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 5 17:50 Read by mleigh
Speculative Insurance: Part 1: Gambling 13:17 Read by Larry Wilson
Speculative Insurance, Part 2: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic 17:26 Read by Availle
Speculative Insurance, Part 3: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic, cont'd 15:33 Read by Availle
Speculative Insurance, Part 4: The Belfast Scandal 32:03 Read by Anna Goss
Speculative Insurance, Part 5: The Blackburn Gamblers 10:24 Read by Doyle Sanders
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 1: Inferences and Presumptions of Death 22:53 Read by Veronica Maresh Mead
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 2 12:30 Read by Piotr Nater
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 3 21:12 Read by Piotr Nater
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 4: A Savannah River Case 29:15 Read by Piotr Nater
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 5: Charles and Martha 37:03 Read by Craig Abbott
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 6 27:05 Read by Beau Wood
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 7 14:40 Read by Tom Milliken
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 8 33:08 Read by Beau Wood
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 9: Monotonous Reptition of the Drowning Trick 13:44 Read by czandra
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 10: A Welsh Deserter 9:48 Read by Ann Boulais
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 11: The Burning in Place of the Drowning Trick 25:15 Read by roselbex
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 12: The Mariano Rubio Case 19:30 Read by roselbex
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 13: The Hillmon Concealment 27:26 Read by Beau Wood
Homicide, Part 1: Poisoning and More Violent Forms of Assassination 31:53 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 2: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 1 23:18 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 3: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 2 26:15 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 4: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 3 21:12 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 5: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 4 21:04 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 6: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 5 22:01 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 7: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 6 16:33 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 8: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 7 23:32 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 9: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 8 20:19 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 10: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 9 17:22 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 11: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 10 21:20 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 12: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 11 20:35 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 13: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 12 21:51 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 14: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 13 19:01 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 15: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 14 19:50 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 16: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 15 20:03 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 17: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 16 23:05 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 18: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 17 22:39 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 19: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 18 24:44 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 20: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 19 25:38 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 21: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 20 29:25 Read by TriciaG
Homicide, Part 22: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 1 20:47 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 23: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 2 21:04 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 24: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 3 19:49 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 25: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 1 22:05 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 26: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 2 22:44 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 27: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 3 15:42 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 28: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 4 21:28 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 29: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 5 27:40 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 30: The Hunter-Armstrong Tragedy 32:55 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 31: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 1 23:55 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 32: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 2 25:10 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 33: The Hendryx Case 15:36 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 34: The Professor West Infamy 21:51 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 35: The Wichita Outlaws, Winner and McNutt; Count Pommerais and … 19:30 Read by roselbex
Homicide, Part 36: The Hartung Crime 12:16 Read by KevinS
Homicide, Part 37: Katherine Ging, the Dupe and Victim of Harry Hayward 29:57 Read by JRempel
Homicide, Part 38: The Monster Holmes, part 1 26:05 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Homicide, Part 39: The Monster Holmes, part 2 27:43 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Homicide, Part 40: A Dramatic California Incident 11:08 Read by Greg Giordano
Homicide, Part 41: A French Wife Destroyer; An Austrian Triple Wife Murder; A S… 15:32 Read by Greg Giordano
Female Poisoners, Part 1: The Belgian Poisoner, Madame Joniaux 12:47 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Female Poisoners, Part 2: A Famous Kansas Matricide 19:04 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Female Poisoners, Part 3 13:39 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Female Poisoners, Part 4 14:58 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Suicide, Part 1 8:22 Read by Larry Wilson
Suicide, Part 2: Colvocoresses, part 1 26:24 Read by TriciaG
Suicide, Part 3: Colvocoresses, part 2 29:57 Read by TriciaG
Suicide, Part 4: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 1 16:19 Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Suicide, Part 5: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 2 16:47 Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Suicide, Part 6: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 3 19:43 Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Suicide, Part 7: Jacob C. Wallis, part 1 17:56 Read by Greg Giordano
Suicide, Part 8: Jacob C. Wallis, part 2 18:09 Read by Greg Giordano
Suicide, Part 9: A Hungarian Nobleman's Strategem; The Runk Case in Philadelphi… 24:03 Read by roselbex
Suicide, Part 10: The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 2 31:04 Read by roselbex
Problematical Cases, Part 1: Walton Dwight, part 1 20:15 Read by Veronica Maresh Mead
Problematical Cases, Part 2: Walton Dwight, part 2 13:31 Read by Veronica Maresh Mead
Problematical Cases, Part 3: Walton Dwight, part 3 19:10 Read by Veronica Maresh Mead
Problematical Cases, Part 4: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 1 19:14 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Problematical Cases, Part 5: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 2 23:18 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Problematical Cases, Part 6: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 1 17:03 Read by Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 7: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 2 14:41 Read by Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 8: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 3 17:02 Read by Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 9: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 4 17:56 Read by Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 10: The Maybrick Case 17:57 Read by Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 11: The Austin Disappearance 18:31 Read by BrandonB
Problematical Cases, Part 12: A Question of Identity; Mistaken Identity 21:17 Read by BettyB
Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 1 16:20 Read by Paul Hampton
Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 2 16:38 Read by Paul Hampton