City Soldiers - A Collection of True Crime Stories (Paperback)

CITY SOLDIERS ... A collection of captivating true crime stories by Frank P. Stiles. A Toledo policeman, sitting quietly with his partner on night duty in their patrol wagon, is approached by a man who pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head at point-blank range, killing him instantly. Another cop at another time is hailed for "superhuman courage," facing not one but three near-death confrontations and living to tell about them. An undercover policeman on duty in central Toledo is shot and killed by a 15-year-old drug dealer. These are some of the stories told here by Frank Stiles, a retired Toledo police detective who spent the better part of three decades investigating and helping to solve thousands of crimes. City Soldiers is his third book, offering more heart-pounding true crime stories, many of which he personally investigated. For instance, the first story, "Miracle on Superior Street," puts Stiles front and center as he chases after an ex-con rapist, robber, and two-bit shoplifter. Stiles catches up with the thief, and as they grappled, the thief shoves the barrel of his gun into Stiles' gut and shoots. Keep reading to discover just what pure miracle saved the detective from certain death. The author, now chief investigator for the Lucas County Prosecutor's office, has written two other books cast in the true-crime genre. The first book, Evil Brothers, takes readers on the trail of two serial killers who terrorized Toledo in 1980 and 1981. They committed at least nine cold-blooded murders, various rapes, robberies, and assaults before being caught. Stiles' second book, Blind Trust, tells the story of two women, 67-year-old Harriett Wernert and her 97-year-old mother, Velma Bush, in the affluent village of Ottawa Hills, OH, in 1975. The perpetrators were David Wernert, the women's son and grandson, along with his wife and a friend. The murders were committed solely for greed - the threesome had their sights set on a $2 million inheritan