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Ghost Burglar Authors Interviewed on WPR Today - Do you have a question for Ghost Burglar authors Jack Burch and James King? Do you want to learn more about Bernard Welch’s criminal activities? Then be sure to tune in to your local Wisconsin Public Radio station! Jack Burch and Jim King will be featured on At Issue today, May 7, between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. …
What Readers Are Saying About ‘Ghost Burglar’ - In writing our book, Ghost Burglar, Jack Burch and I worked in a sort of isolation. We researched and wrote, only sharing our work with each other and Jack’s lovely wife Marion. Marion was our sounding board, not only correcting our grammar and punctuation, but questioning when we might have said something a better way. …
Ghost Burglar Authors to be on WGN Radio - Listen up, Ghost Burglar fans! Authors Jack Burch and James King will be interviewed by Paul Lisnek on WGN Radio (720 AM in Chicago) on Monday, December 24, at 9:00 a.m CST. They will be discussing Ghost Burglar and how the recent escape from the Metropolitan Correctional Center compares with Welch’s escape in 1985. Not in …
Ghost Burglar Makes the News - Thanks to an AP story about the recent prison break at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, Ghost Burglar is finding itself in front of a national audience. The story, with a mention of Ghost Burglar and authors Jack Burch and James King, has been picked up by several national media outlets, including CBS News, …
The Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. Image by Joseph Lekas Photography
Chicago MCC Jail Break: It Happened Again! - Ghost Burglar details how Bernard Welch and Hugh Colomb managed to escape from the downtown Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center in 1985. Now 27 years later, two other convicts, Joseph Banks and Kenneth Conley, did the same thing – and the similarities are eerie. In 1985, Welch and Colomb were transferred to the MCC to testify …