I say we fire the editors of philly.com.
Their latest gallery, “History of Philly Crime“, while fascinating (who knew there was an arsenic gang back in the 1930′s), is obviously just a ploy to get more pics of Drexel hottie Jocelyn Kirsch on their website. (And I really don’t want to click through 90 photos to get that particular one, really. Thumbnails, anyone?)
Philadelphia has had a long history of violent or colorful criminals, from the Arsenic Gang that poisoned or killed 100 people, to Jocelyn Kirsch, the glamorous Drexel student convicted of scamming friends and acquaintances out of more than $100,000 with her beau. Visit the past here and watch for our new Crime Page coming soon.
Seriously, guys. Of all the white collar crimes to include in a gallery of murders, rapists and serial killers.
Jocelyn S. Kirsch – half of Philadelphia’s infamous pair of identity-theft scammers known as “Bonnie and Clyde” – is serving five years in prison. Kirsch, 23, “visited harm on at least 50 victims,” many of them friends and colleagues, a judge said. Kirsch, a former Drexel student who drew widespread media attention when glamorous photos of her, often in a bikini, were splashed over the Internet. She and her boyfriend, Edward Anderton, stole identity information from friends, coworkers and neighbors and used it to get fake IDs, which they then used to get fraudulent credit cards. They stole more than $116,000 from their victims – and tried to steal about $122,000 more. Anderton, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics, Anderton, 25, is serving four years.
Here’s an formula. Hire me. I’ll write you a real story. Then hire 20 reporters like me. Voila, how’s that for boosting circulation numbers. Ah, what am I saying? It’s a little late for that, PG.
Somewhat off the topic of your shameless job solicitations, I’ve “been around” for all of the above, and it makes me feel all warm and syrupy inside to visually reminisce. Thanks, PG.
I’m okay with shameless job soliciting….
Wow, you’ve been around for all of that? Amazing…
I’m surprised you didn’t recognize me – and Bill Brooks, of course – in picture No.4. This was taken shortly before we retired from the force to become teachers. I’m the one in the sidecar. I accidentally shot Brooks in the butt while we were posing for this picture. It’s said that he was never quite the same after that.
Actually, my recollection of kicks in during the era of Willie “The Actor” Sutton. His escape from Homesberg Prison – when I was just a wee laddie – made him an overnight sensation in my neighborhood. My buddies and me (I’m intentionally using the objective case here for effect) all knew if we worked real hard at it, we would someday be as successful as Willie. Sadly, most of us became typically lifelong mundane members of the great American middle class. *sigh*
PS. Hoping that I don’t appear sexist, I must say that Jocelyn Kirsch doesn’t have the class to be placed in the same gallery with the rest of these Thugs With Dirty Mugs.