Winter 2010-2011 edition is now available
J.J. Maloney was facing life behind the walls of the Missouri Penitentiary, sentenced for the murder of a 74-year-old businessman during a botched robbery. Remarkably, Maloney wrote his way to freedom — some of his work found its way to the pages of this magazine — and he kept writing, becoming one of the Midwest’s most intrepid journalists.
C.D. Stelzer tells Maloney’s remarkable story in the current edition, now available for free at Scribd.com (http://scr.bi/hs7o5w) and Issuu.com (http://bit.ly/ggY9G9).
In addition to Stelzer, contributors include Franchot Ballinger, Andrew Dillon, Dave Etter, Joe Hennessy, Jacqueline Jackson, Conrad Knickerbocker, Lola Lucas, Felicia Olin, Robert Joe Stout, Alan Toltzis, Karen Walsh and Daniel Waugh.
For more information, e-mail focusmidwest@yahoo.com.
I just learned my sister, Edith Rhodes was with J.J. Malone when he committed the murder that landed him in prison, and before that he was evidently in love with her at H\Fulton State Hospital where they met. I have been trying all my life to get information on what exactly happened to her from the time she was sent away when I was ten, til her murder in 1961, when I was fourteen. Any information anyone has about them together would be much apppreciated!
Judy Collins
January 29, 2012 at 3:14 pm