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)

Chapitres

Preface 5:39 Lu par Availle
Pretended Death, Part 1 26:32 Lu par mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 2: Forged Certification 39:08 Lu par mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 3: False Personation of Applicant 20:53 Lu par mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 4: Fictitious Substitution 30:50 Lu par mleigh
Pretended Death, Part 5 17:50 Lu par mleigh
Speculative Insurance: Part 1: Gambling 13:17 Lu par Larry Wilson
Speculative Insurance, Part 2: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic 17:26 Lu par Availle
Speculative Insurance, Part 3: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic, cont'd 15:33 Lu par Availle
Speculative Insurance, Part 4: The Belfast Scandal 32:03 Lu par Anna Goss
Speculative Insurance, Part 5: The Blackburn Gamblers 10:24 Lu par Doyle Sanders
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 1: Inferences and Presumptions of Death 22:53 Lu par Veronica Maresh Mead
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 2 12:30 Lu par Piotr Nater
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 3 21:12 Lu par Piotr Nater
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 4: A Savannah River Case 29:15 Lu par Piotr Nater
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 5: Charles and Martha 37:03 Lu par Craig Abbott
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 6 27:05 Lu par Beau Wood
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 7 14:40 Lu par Tom Milliken
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 8 33:08 Lu par Beau Wood
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 9: Monotonous Reptition of the Drowning Trick 13:44 Lu par czandra
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 10: A Welsh Deserter 9:48 Lu par Ann Boulais
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 11: The Burning in Place of the Drowning Trick 25:15 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 12: The Mariano Rubio Case 19:30 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Mysterious Disappearances, Part 13: The Hillmon Concealment 27:26 Lu par Beau Wood
Homicide, Part 1: Poisoning and More Violent Forms of Assassination 31:53 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 2: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 1 23:18 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 3: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 2 26:15 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 4: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 3 21:12 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 5: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 4 21:04 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 6: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 5 22:01 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 7: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 6 16:33 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 8: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 7 23:32 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 9: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 8 20:19 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 10: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 9 17:22 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 11: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 10 21:20 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 12: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 11 20:35 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 13: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 12 21:51 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 14: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 13 19:01 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 15: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 14 19:50 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 16: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 15 20:03 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 17: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 16 23:05 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 18: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 17 22:39 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 19: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 18 24:44 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 20: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 19 25:38 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 21: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 20 29:25 Lu par TriciaG
Homicide, Part 22: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 1 20:47 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 23: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 2 21:04 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 24: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 3 19:49 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 25: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 1 22:05 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 26: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 2 22:44 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 27: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 3 15:42 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 28: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 4 21:28 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 29: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 5 27:40 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 30: The Hunter-Armstrong Tragedy 32:55 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 31: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 1 23:55 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 32: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 2 25:10 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 33: The Hendryx Case 15:36 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 34: The Professor West Infamy 21:51 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 35: The Wichita Outlaws, Winner and McNutt; Count Pommerais and … 19:30 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Homicide, Part 36: The Hartung Crime 12:16 Lu par KevinS
Homicide, Part 37: Katherine Ging, the Dupe and Victim of Harry Hayward 29:57 Lu par JRempel
Homicide, Part 38: The Monster Holmes, part 1 26:05 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Homicide, Part 39: The Monster Holmes, part 2 27:43 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Homicide, Part 40: A Dramatic California Incident 11:08 Lu par Greg Giordano
Homicide, Part 41: A French Wife Destroyer; An Austrian Triple Wife Murder; A S… 15:32 Lu par Greg Giordano
Female Poisoners, Part 1: The Belgian Poisoner, Madame Joniaux 12:47 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Female Poisoners, Part 2: A Famous Kansas Matricide 19:04 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Female Poisoners, Part 3 13:39 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Female Poisoners, Part 4 14:58 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Suicide, Part 1 8:22 Lu par Larry Wilson
Suicide, Part 2: Colvocoresses, part 1 26:24 Lu par TriciaG
Suicide, Part 3: Colvocoresses, part 2 29:57 Lu par TriciaG
Suicide, Part 4: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 1 16:19 Lu par Tatiana Chichilla
Suicide, Part 5: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 2 16:47 Lu par Tatiana Chichilla
Suicide, Part 6: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 3 19:43 Lu par Tatiana Chichilla
Suicide, Part 7: Jacob C. Wallis, part 1 17:56 Lu par Greg Giordano
Suicide, Part 8: Jacob C. Wallis, part 2 18:09 Lu par Greg Giordano
Suicide, Part 9: A Hungarian Nobleman's Strategem; The Runk Case in Philadelphi… 24:03 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Suicide, Part 10: The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 2 31:04 Lu par Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Problematical Cases, Part 1: Walton Dwight, part 1 20:15 Lu par Veronica Maresh Mead
Problematical Cases, Part 2: Walton Dwight, part 2 13:31 Lu par Veronica Maresh Mead
Problematical Cases, Part 3: Walton Dwight, part 3 19:10 Lu par Veronica Maresh Mead
Problematical Cases, Part 4: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 1 19:14 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Problematical Cases, Part 5: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 2 23:18 Lu par Ciufi Galeazzi
Problematical Cases, Part 6: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 1 17:03 Lu par Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 7: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 2 14:41 Lu par Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 8: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 3 17:02 Lu par Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 9: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 4 17:56 Lu par Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 10: The Maybrick Case 17:57 Lu par Piotr Nater
Problematical Cases, Part 11: The Austin Disappearance 18:31 Lu par BrandonB
Problematical Cases, Part 12: A Question of Identity; Mistaken Identity 21:17 Lu par BettyB
Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 1 16:20 Lu par Paul Hampton
Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 2 16:38 Lu par Paul Hampton