FBI case files, Michigan : tales of a G-man

Summary: Across the Mitten and through the Upper Peninsula, the Wolverine State has witnessed some thrilling and historic federal cases. In Detroit, FBI agents took point investigating the kidnapping (and safe return) of a GM executive's son and in a manhunt for an armed killer in the north woods near Escanaba. The Bureau was called in to discover who poisoned patients at the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital and for a grisly double homicide solved by a persistent and determined fingerprint examiner. Michigan agents spearheaded the first-ever investigation and prosecution of an Internet threat, and legendary football coach Bo Schembechler inspired an epic international undercover operation targeting the illegal distribution of steroids. Retired Special Agent Greg Stejskal recalls these stories and others from more than thirty years as a G-man in Michigan.

Record details

ISBN: 1467148903
ISBN: 9781467148900
Physical Description: print
158 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Reporting to Detroit, and Jimmy Hoffa disappears -- Somebody is poisoning patients: Murders at the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital -- The Telltale fingerprints -- A Detroit mob photograph by FBI surveillance squad captures history -- Kidnapping for ransom: A bad business model -- The double steal: Theft of Flat Glass Technology -- The annual talk with the Michigan football team about sports gambling -- Print the fact: How the Unabomber was first identified -- The FBI gets jurisdiction to investigate drug trafficking -- A talk of a GM Executive who got busted selling test cars -- Unmasking the joker -- A Cuban inmate uprising, the Salvation Army and Santa's Helper -- 3:10 to Marquette: A manhunt in the northwoods of Michigan -- Mark from Michigan: The rise and fall of a founder of the Michigan Militia Movement -- A tale of Union racketeering or how I learned to love the Hobbs Act -- They shoot horses, don't they? -- Is it OK to shout fire in a crowded chat room? A Michigan case that tests free speech in the early days of the Internet -- The history of April 19: American Revolution, Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing -- The tale of the stolen meteorite: Almost an X-file -- The Hole-in-the-Truck gang -- A happy ending for law enforcement in a spa crackdown -- Robin Hood in reverse: A $1.1 million scam -- Retirement and a cold murder case in Detroit dating back to 1857 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.