Copyright © 1995 The Entheos Group, L.L.C.
All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

The authors have taken great caution to protect the true identity of persons depicted in this book. While the crimes depicted are true, the names, gender, and races of the criminals depicted, and the details of the crimes portrayed, may have been changed to safeguard those identities.

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Rutledge Hill Press, Inc., 211 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37219 Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn and Company, Ltd., 1090 Lorimar Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L5S 1R7.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Butler, Daniel R., 1951–

   America’s dumbest criminals : based on true stories from law enforcement officials across the country / Daniel R. Butler, Leland Gregory, Alan Ray.

      p. cm.

   ISBN 1–55853–372–9

   1. Crime—United States—Case studies. 2. Criminals—United States—Case studies. 3. Crime—United States—Humor. I. Gregory, Leland. II. Ray, Alan. III. Title.

HV6783.B87 1995

364.1'092'273—dc20

[B]

95–30052

CIP

Printed in the United States of America.

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