Identify this crime/Jack London story

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I was in a bookstore many years ago, and one of the books that caught my eye was a book about noteworthy (if you can call it that) murderes in the US. I don’t remember the title.

Anyway, one of the bad guys profiled in the book was a really crooked, bad-ass cop. Supposedly he beat a prostitute to death, an act that possibly London himself witnessed. It affected him enough that he included that act in one of his stories (so I remember).

However, I don’t remember the story, either.

So. . .

Any ideas on the story that included this scene, or the real life people who “inspired” it???

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I’m bumping this one too. I plan to do it every eight years.

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I suspect a spammer looking to get around a post limit before being allowed to post links. 5 posts in quick succession, all very WTFish in nature.
Reported.

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OK, I’m a few months early, but it will be eight years soon. C’mon!

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I am currently reading London’s memoir The Road, detailing his experiences hoboing around the country in the 1890s. Only fifty pages in, but there certainly are a lot of evil bastard cops in it.

If one of them gets around to bludgeoning a sex worker to death, I’ll be sure to alert you.