The con man parked his Cadillac in front of Coo Coo's garage. He was going by the name L.W. Wright in those days, and he strode to that first meeting with the confidence of a cat burglar, a wad of ...

It began with a phone call to The Tennessean's former office on Broadway one spring day in 1982. Sports reporter Larry Woody answered the phone. A con man calling himself L.W. Wright was on the other ...

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The superspeedway at Talladega is massive and has a capacity for 175,000 people in its stands. The track is 2.66 miles long and its curves are a steep 33-degrees. So could L.W. Wright race around the ...

“I’VE BROKEN ABOUT 34 or 35 bones. My wrist tends to hurt me very badly.” Evel Knievel, the legendary daredevil, is gazing directly into the camera. It’s 1994, and the man best known for wild stunts ...

The last time the richest men in America teamed up with a con man, Minnesota almost invaded Canada. So as president and convicted felon Donald Trump launches his promised trade war with Minnesota’s ...

Brian Ross, reported on abscam 34 years ago, speaks with FBI informant. In Oscar-nominated "American Hustle," Christian Bale plays a character based on real-life Mel Weinberg, a central figure in the ...

This is the first in a three-part series from The Tennessean chronicling the story of L.W. Wright. The con man parked his Cadillac in front of Coo Coo's garage. He was going by the name L.W. Wright in ...

In 1982, a con man named L.W. Wright scammed his way into the Winston 500 NASCAR race at Talladega. Wright, who was not a professional driver, qualified for the race but disappeared after being ...

L.W. Wright, a con man, convinced Coo Coo Marlin and his son Sterling to sell him a race car and act as his pit crew chief for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega. Wright falsely claimed to have a ...