True Crime Burbank
A Special Evening with Author James T. Bartlett
Tuesday, October 20
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Author James T. Bartlett will discuss his new true crime book with award-winning horror author, editor, and bookseller Del Howison.
Burbank is known as a haven from the craziness of nearby Hollywood, but the city has a dark underbelly. Nellie May Madison shot her husband to death at their home in 1934 and became the first woman to be condemned to death in California. The brutal 1953 murder of Mable Monohan inspired an Oscar-winning movie, but that didn’t save Barbara Graham and her killer collaborators from the gallows. In the decades that followed, infamous and violent offenders such as the “Dating Game Killer,” the “Toolbox Killers,” and “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez hunted for victims in the area, while slayings of detectives, private eyes, bookies, and secret gamblers piled up in the cold case files of the police department. Award-winning author and journalist James T. Bartlett explores the sinister side of Burbank history in True Crime Burbank.
Copies of James T. Bartlett's True Crime Burbank will be available for sale at a discounted price.
Buena Vista Branch Library
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The Buena Vista Branch Library is located on Buena Vista Street near Olive Avenue in Burbank’s Media District. It is a one-story building.