Don Bolles Murder Case
Don Bolles car after explosion
Don Bolles car after explosion
Don Bolles was an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic. He knew just about everything their was to know about the mob in Phoenix. During his career as a reporter he crossed many corrupt officials and gangsters. The one that would end his life was Kemper Marley. Don Bolles reporting exposed Kemper Marley's connection with the mob, forcing him to resign as a member of the State Board Racing Commission. As a result of this, Marley had Bolles killed. Here is an excerpt from C.D. Stelzer's Urban Guerilla Journal which was very thorough about the entire affair. You can look at the whole article on Don Bolles through his website below.
"Beginning in 1946, Licavoli, the Arizona mob boss, operated an illegal gambling wire service with Kemper Marley Sr., the wealthiest liquor distributor in the state. Later, Marley's United Liquor Co. supplied Emprise dog tracks with 10 percent of their alcoholic beverages. During the 1974 Arizona gubernatorial race, Marley was the biggest contributor to Gov. Raul Castro's campaign. After the election, the Castro administration appointed Marley to the state racing commission, but he was forced to resign because of adverse publicity from stories written by Bolles. The Phoenix police theorized that Marley wanting revenge enlisted the help of local contractor Max Dunlap. Dunlap then allegedly hired Adamson to carry out the bombing. Adamson claimed that plumber James Robison assisted him."
Stelzer, C.D. Phoenix Rising:Twenty one years after a car bomb killed
journalist Don Bolles, doubts remain as to who was responsible for the
murder. From the Urban Guerilla Journal. Originally Published in the
Riverfront
Times. June 11,1997, St. Louis, Missouri. http://home.stlnet.com/~cdstelzer/bolles.htmlAvailable
Online. Accessed 1/01/00.
Websites
From APB News
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/bolles/
From News in the Future: Author Jack Driscoll
http://nif.www.media.mit.edu/people/driscoll/Bolles.html
From C.D. Stelzer's Urban Guerilla Journal.
http://home.stlnet.com/~cdstelzer/bolles.html
Arizona Republic Special Report: The Don Bolles Case, 25 Years Ago
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/bolles/bollesindex.html
The Arizona conspiracy? : creative paranoia/ by Tony Amigone and Barry
Wolfson.
F815
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The Arizona Project / by Michael F. Wendland ; with a prologue by Tony
Amigone and Barry Wolfson.
PN4897.A724
W4 1988
Don Bolles : an investigation into his murder / by Martin Tallberg.
HV6534.P55
T34
Loud and clear / Lake Headley with William Hoffman.
HV6534.P55
H43 1990
Biography of Kemper Marley.
CB BIO MAR,KEM
FB BIO MAR,KEM
Biography of Don Bolles, 1928-1976.
CB BIO BOL,DON
Bolles Murder Trial: Newsclippings, Varied Dates.
CE EPH L-12
Newsclippings Bolles Murder Trial.
CE EPH L-11
Articles
New Times
June 1-7 1986
Don Bolles Murder: Arizona's Shame, 1986
Investigative Reporters and Editors series on crime in Arizona
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