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INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2012 IN TRUE CRIME FINALIST, FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In Born to Lose, author James G. Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors at the age of fourteen to a daring rooftop escape from the Allegheny Workhouse in Blawnox, Pennsylvania, where he was being held on a rape charge, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, to the kidnapping near Cumberland, Maryland, and his ultimate murder of Linda Peugeot and her two-year-old daughter Lori in the autumn of 1969. Their bodies have never been found. Although indicted for the Peugeot kidnappings, these charges were later dropped because it was determined his constitutional right to a speedy trial was denied. Hoss was, however, convicted of the murder of Officer Zanella and initially sentenced to death, and that sentence was sub

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Author

Hollock, James G.

Publisher

The Kent State University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781606350973

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Biography

Rating

3.81 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14