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With a Butcher’s Keen Blade.
Thomas Pallister (alias, Kelly) stabbed two policemen with a butcher knife. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2026-06-16 | 2026-06-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Horrible Murder in Twelfth Street.
Mrs. Shancks was found murdered in her 12th street millenary store. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2026-06-16 | 2026-06-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Hannah and Stephen.
She avenged her honor by shooting him in the back. |
2026-06-15 | 2026-06-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Conspirators and their Hitman.
Murder for hire. |
2026-06-06 | 2026-06-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jack the Strangler Post-Mortem.
A mad strangler, or the product of sensationalism? |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-05-31 | 2026-06-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Kate Scharn.
Living a Double Life Proved Fatal. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-05-23 | 2026-06-02 | Edit | Delete |
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Maggie Crowley.
A drunken night in the Tenderloin ends in murder. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-05-16 | 2026-05-30 | Edit | Delete |
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"Diamond Flossie" Murphy.
Suicide or Strangulation Victim? |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-05-09 | 2026-05-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Hannah Altman.
Yet another Tenderloin strangulation case. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-05-02 | 2026-05-29 | Edit | Delete |
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Annie Bock.
Another unsolved murder in New York's Tenderloin. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-04-25 | 2026-05-30 | Edit | Delete |
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Mamie Cunningham.
Unsolved New York City strangulation. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-04-18 | 2026-05-30 | Edit | Delete |
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Minnie Weldt.
Unsolved New York City strangulation. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-04-11 | 2026-04-25 | Edit | Delete |
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Jack the Strangler.
In the 1890s, one or more serial strangler terrorized America. |
Gaslight Murders | 2026-04-04 | 2026-05-31 | Edit | Delete |
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Butchered and Burned.
Mrs. Gibbons returned home to the remains of an outrage. |
2026-03-28 | 2026-03-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Maggie Crowley, Found Strangled.
An unsolved New York City from 1898. |
2026-03-21 | 2026-05-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Swope and Goodloe.
A tragic end to a bitter political rivalry. |
2026-03-15 | 2026-03-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Frederick F. Streeter.
Murdered three members of the Coy family. |
2026-03-14 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Medford's Murder Mystery.
Walter Debbins's murder has never been solved. |
2026-03-07 | 2026-03-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Life, Trial and Execution of Benjamin F. Hunter.
Murdered for Money. |
2026-03-04 | 2026-03-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Sororcide.
A fatal end to the Anderson sisters' spat. |
2026-02-28 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Harry and Catherine.
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2026-02-21 | 2026-02-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Murder on Ice.
A skating party ruined by violence. |
2026-02-14 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hannah and Stephen.
She avenged her honor by shooting him in the back. |
2026-02-07 | 2026-02-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Clara and Daniel.
Clara Shanks was found floating in Wolf Creek. |
2026-02-07 | 2026-02-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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So far From Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder.
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2026-02-04 | 2026-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Who Killed Carrie Farrel?
Reports of her murder were greatly exaggerated. |
2026-01-31 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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James and Sarah Jane.
James Eldredge poisoned Sarah Jane Gould to pursue her younger sister. |
2026-01-24 | 2026-01-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Asked His Wife to Shoot Him.
When Lourens Signourette asked his wife to shoot him, she honored his request. |
2026-01-17 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Late Mr. Benjamin Nathan.
A classic locked-room mystery that remains unsolved. |
2026-01-10 | 2026-01-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Crosby Street Murder.
Stabbed on a New York doorstep |
2026-01-03 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Frank and Christie.
Unrequited love turned to murder. |
2025-12-27 | 2025-12-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous Christmas Celebrations.
Murder is an unwelcome guest at Yuletide parties. |
2025-12-20 | 2025-12-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Just End of a Monster of Iniquity.
Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, “The Lambeth Poisoner." |
2025-12-13 | 2025-12-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Sadie and Clarence.
The Robinsons accused each other of killing Montgomery Gibbs. |
2025-12-11 | 2025-12-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Charles and Lizzie.
Conspired to murder his wife. |
2025-12-06 | 2025-12-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Knife in Boston.
Landlords vs. Hooligans. |
2025-12-06 | 2026-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Adolph and Lizzie.
“The horror of the deed threw a chill over the entire city" |
2025-11-29 | 2025-11-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Carlyle and Helen.
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2025-11-27 | 2025-11-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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So Far from Home.
Half-price sale! |
2025-11-26 | 2025-11-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Killed her Pretty Rival.
If Lizzie can't have Henry, no one can. |
2025-11-22 | 2025-11-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Charles and Hugh.
A shipboard romance ended in tragedy. |
2025-11-15 | 2025-11-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scott Jackson's Evil Eye.
So Far from Home - half price. |
2025-11-12 | 2025-11-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Killed by their Landlord.
Edwin Hunter's plan to smoke out his tenants turned fatal. |
2025-11-08 | 2025-11-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in a Ten-Pin Alley.
Mr. Hall Kills Mr. Wall with a Ball. |
2025-11-04 | 2025-11-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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So Far from Home - Half Price!
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2025-11-03 | 2025-11-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scenes from the Cronin Murder.
Where Clan-na-Gael executed whistleblower Dr. Cronin. |
2025-11-01 | 2025-11-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Portuguese Joe."
Lizzie McDaniels was murdered by her former lover. |
2025-10-25 | 2025-10-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Butchery in Baltimore.
Margaret Schneider was murdered under mysterious circumstances. |
2025-10-18 | 2025-10-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Emma and George.
The relationship between Emma Malloy and George Graham ended in tragedy. |
2025-10-11 | 2025-10-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Richardson McFarland Tragedy.
Daniel McFarland shot Albert Richardson but McFarland’s murder trial focused on his wife’s adultery. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2025-10-04 | 2025-10-04 | Edit | Delete |
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Undue Religious Excitement.
Robert Sprague murders his mother during Bible reading. |
2025-09-27 | 2025-09-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Demon Druses.
Roxalana Druse, shot, decapitated and burned her husband |
2025-09-20 | 2025-09-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Why I Hate A.I.
Artificial Intelligence would be an excellent tool for historical research, but for one flaw – it does not distinguish between fact and guesswork. |
2025-09-18 | 2026-03-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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One Week Only!
The Bloody Century, half price. |
2025-09-16 | 2025-09-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lust and Lead.
Murder/suicide in St. Louis. |
2025-09-13 | 2025-09-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Your Time has Come!"
Mary Barrow enlisted her son-in-law to murder her husband. |
2025-09-06 | 2025-09-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The East Liverpool Borgia.
Annie Van Fossen's coffee killed 2 and poisoned 9 others. |
2025-08-30 | 2025-08-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Horrible Butchery.
Antoine Schilling dismembered by the Schroop family. |
2025-08-23 | 2025-08-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Portraits of Helen Jewett.
A beautiful victim or an evil seductress? |
2025-08-16 | 2025-08-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Life, Trial, and Execution of Benjamin F. Hunter.
A murder for money. |
2025-08-13 | 2025-08-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Affairs in Norwich.
A.C. Thompson died from a tumble downstairs. Did he fall or was he pushed? |
2025-08-09 | 2025-08-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Walworth Parricide, in New York.
Meeting of the Mother and Son, After the Murder. |
2025-08-02 | 2025-08-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Bloody Century Sample Stories.
Free! Download 3 samples from The Bloody Century. |
2025-07-31 | 2025-07-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Madison County Murderer.
A cool-blooded rascal murdered two for not loaning him a horse. |
2025-07-26 | 2025-08-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Youthful Killers.
A few of the 19th century's youngest murderers. |
2025-07-19 | 2025-07-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bloody Century Audiobooks.
Listen to samples from The Bloody Century audiobooks. |
2025-07-15 | 2025-07-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Killed With a Cuspidor.
A skull fractured by a spittoon entered as evidence. |
2025-07-12 | 2025-08-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Dr. John W. Hughes.
Dr. John W. Hughes, in a fit of drunken rage, killed his one true love. |
2025-07-05 | 2025-07-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysterious Murder.
Unidentified body parts floating around Brooklyn. |
2025-06-28 | 2025-08-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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For Love of His Landlady.
Andrew Martin could not have Mary Merrill, so he killed them both. |
2025-06-21 | 2025-06-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Acquital of Joseph A. Blair.
Joseph Blair broke down sobbing after acquittal for murder. |
2025-06-14 | 2025-06-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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Life, Crimes, and Conviction of Lydia Sherman.
“The Arch Murderess of Connecticut,” “The Modern Borgia,” and “The Poison Fiend.” |
2025-06-07 | 2025-06-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Harris-Burroughs Affair.
Groomed and abandoned, Mary Harris took revenge. |
2025-05-31 | 2025-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Was Abbott Innocent?
Stearns Abbott served 30 years in prison for a murder he may not have committed. |
2025-05-24 | 2025-05-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Prince Street Murder.
Annie Downie was murdered in her bed in a New York brothel. |
2025-05-17 | 2025-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Some Very Cold Cases.
Unsolved 19th Century Murders. |
2025-05-10 | 2025-05-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Some Very Cold Cases 2.
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2025-05-07 | 2025-05-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Honeymoon Tragedy.
Mysterious murder/suicide of newlyweds. |
2025-05-02 | 2025-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Views of the Fisk Assassination.
A murder graphically illustrated many times. |
2025-04-26 | 2025-04-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Liquor and Free Love.
A love triangle among Spiritualists ends in murder. |
2025-04-19 | 2025-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Parting from Her Doomed Lover.
Hattie Schrecht comforts Asbury Hawkins who murdered his mother for her sake. |
2025-04-12 | 2025-04-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot Down in Court.
Lizzie Ackerman did not wait for a verdict. |
2025-04-05 | 2025-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Miss Tobin's Mysterious Death.
Mary Tobin’s life was clouded with mysteries and contradictions. |
2025-03-29 | 2025-03-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Piper and His Crimes
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2025-03-27 | 2025-03-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Hill's Grove Mystery.
Emma Pearson went alone through the woods and never returned. |
2025-03-22 | 2025-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Illustrated Encyclopedia: The 1891 Murder Of Carrie Brown.
Originally considered being the handiwork of Jack The Ripper. |
2025-03-20 | 2025-03-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mary and Oscar.
Mary Barrows induced her son-in-law to murder her husband. |
2025-03-15 | 2025-03-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mother and Son Murderers.
Mary and Jimmie Matoy convicted of manslaughter. |
2025-03-08 | 2025-03-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Kitty Mulcahey's Fury.
How the Tonkin murderess settled the interview with reporters. |
2025-03-01 | 2025-03-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Zora Burns.
The people of Lincoln, IL, took action against her killer. |
2025-02-22 | 2025-02-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot by a Prodigal Son.
Henry Breist killed his father for forcing him to reform. |
2025-02-15 | 2025-02-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Innocent Man in a Felon's Cell.
The Hart-Meservey Murder. |
2025-02-08 | 2025-02-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Bloody Butchery.
"When excited, his fury knew no bounds." |
2025-02-01 | 2025-02-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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With Hell in Their Hearts.
The Taylor Boys and the Little Girl Who Lived |
2025-01-30 | 2025-01-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Terrible Tragedy at Uniontown.
A family conflict in Uniontown, PA left two dead. |
2025-01-25 | 2025-01-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Friend Indeed.
After 33 years work, James Dolan wins a pardon for his friend Michael Gorman. |
2025-01-18 | 2025-01-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Charley and Mary.
Infatuation turns to irrational murder. |
2025-01-11 | 2025-01-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Today Only!
So Far from Home only 99¢ |
2025-01-09 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Buzzell Shooting Case.
Was it a long road to justice or judicial murder? |
2025-01-04 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Blue-Eyed Executions.
Five conspirators hanged in Pennsylvania. |
2024-12-28 | 2024-12-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Christmas Party Murder.
Kate Southern violently ruined her father's celebration. |
2024-12-21 | 2024-12-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Deadly Bon Bons.
Who sent arsenic laden chocolates that killed four? |
2024-12-14 | 2024-12-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Merrihew Murder.
A dysfunctional family shattered by poison. |
2024-12-07 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysterious Murder of Rose Clark Ambler.
Rose Ambler said goodnight to her fiancé and was never again seen alive. |
2024-11-30 | 2024-11-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Banjo Homicide.
A banjo-blow to the face ended a tumultuous relationship. |
2024-11-23 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bloody Century 2 Audiobook.
Audiobook available at Audible, iTunes, and Amazon. |
2024-11-19 | 2024-11-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Meierhoffer Execution.
Mrs. Meierhoffer and her paramour hanged for killing her husband. |
2024-11-16 | 2024-11-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Naked Man’s Horrible Deeds.
Escaped maniac runs amok. |
2024-11-09 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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"The Boy Murderer."
Executed for murdering the boss's daughter. |
2024-11-02 | 2024-11-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Stull-Best Murder.
Public sympathy saved Catherine Stull from the gallows. |
2024-10-26 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poisoning Mania.
Guests of Mrs. Wharton tended to die mysteriously. |
2024-10-19 | 2024-10-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Confessions of Edward Tatro.
Edward Tatro made several confessions, each wilder than the last. |
2024-10-12 | 2025-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Ann and John.
John Phair killed Ann Freese and burned down her brothel. |
2024-10-05 | 2024-10-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Mysterious Tragedy.
Helen J. Ward shot her mother while dreaming of burglars. |
2024-09-28 | 2024-10-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Horrible Beyond Precedent.
George Wheeler preferred murder to sharing Dilia Tilson with another man. |
2024-09-21 | 2024-09-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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What Lust Will Do.
Confession of Mrs. Brown, at Indianapolis, 1880. |
2024-09-14 | 2024-09-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Young Fiend.
16-yr-old Otto Leuth assaulted and killed 8-yr-old Maggie Thompson. |
2024-09-07 | 2024-10-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Cronin Trial.
5 members of Clan-na-Gael tried for the murder of Dr. Cronin. |
2024-08-31 | 2024-08-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Youthful Murderer.
The public sympathized with a cold-blooded killer. |
2024-08-24 | 2024-08-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Red Path of Jealousy.
Jealousy drove Martha Place to the electric chair. |
2024-08-17 | 2024-08-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Norwich Poisoning.
Kate Cobb and Wesley Bishop conspired to murder their spouses. |
2024-08-10 | 2024-10-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Fatal Shot.
Finding the killer of Amos Snell was a daunting task. |
2024-08-03 | 2024-08-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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One Week Only!
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2024-07-29 | 2024-07-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Body in the Trunk.
The body of Charles Arthur Preller was left in a hotel room when his killer checked out. |
2024-07-27 | 2024-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Montville Tragedy.
A fit of insanity leaves three dead. |
2024-07-20 | 2024-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murdered Child.
Mabel Young, murdered in a church belfry. |
2024-07-13 | 2024-07-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mattie Collins.
She shot her brother-in-law for turning away her true love. |
2024-07-06 | 2024-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bloody Century 2.
The long-awaited sequel to The Bloody Century takes the reader back to 19th-century America in all its gory glory. |
2024-07-01 | 2024-07-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Victim's Orphan.
Mary Stannard's murder left her son Willie an orphan. |
2024-06-29 | 2024-06-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Femmes Fatales.
Nellie and Fanny's flirtations led to murder. |
2024-06-22 | 2024-06-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mary Runkle.
Mary Runkle was surrounded by death. Turns out she was responsible. |
2024-06-15 | 2024-06-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murderer's Attack on His Mother.
Frank Gouldy's family was the target of his axe wielding spree. |
2024-06-15 | 2024-06-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Pokomoke Tragedy.
Ella Hearn and Lilly Duer's relationship ended with a gunshot. |
2024-06-08 | 2024-10-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Removing the Bandages.
Benjamin Hunter reopened John Armestrong's headwound. |
2024-06-01 | 2024-06-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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John Wesley Elkins.
11-year-old Wesley Elkins murdered his parents. |
2024-05-25 | 2024-05-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Boss Butcher.
Stephen D. Richards murdered nine people with no remorse. |
2024-05-18 | 2024-05-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Pantomime Witness.
Joseph Lochner was accused by his deaf, 4-yr-old daughter. |
2024-05-11 | 2024-05-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Falls Field Tragedy.
The scandalous marriage of Sarah and Charles Littles ended in murder. |
2024-05-04 | 2024-05-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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"I Myself Have Done This Thing."
Suicide in a fit of remorse and rum. |
2024-04-27 | 2024-04-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Charles and Eva.
Jealousy and strong drink drove Charles Herman to murder his wife Eva. |
2024-04-20 | 2024-04-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Emma and Samuel.
Samuel and Emma Smith appeared happy until Emma was found dead in their apartment. |
2024-04-13 | 2024-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Cowardly Assassination.
Col. H. Clay King, shot his legal opponent, on Main Street in broad daylight. |
2024-04-06 | 2024-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Elizabeth and Arthur.
Elizabeth Ragan poisoned her husband and tried to portray it as suicide. |
2024-03-30 | 2024-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Give Me Back My Children."
Margaret Howard took revenge for her kidnapped children. |
2024-03-23 | 2024-03-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bedford Murder.
Did alcohol drive Dr. John Hughes to murder the love of his life? |
2024-03-16 | 2024-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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John and Maria.
When Maria Hendrickson's sudden death cast suspicion on her husband John. |
2024-03-09 | 2024-03-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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His House His Castle.
Robert Belden justified in killing intruder. |
2024-03-02 | 2024-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Alice and Lillie.
What was Alice Hoyle's role in her sister Lillie's murder? |
2024-02-24 | 2024-02-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Katie and Albert.
Was Katie Dugan seduced and murdered by her employer? |
2024-02-17 | 2024-02-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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East Side Story.
Guest Post from Howard and Nina Brown. |
2024-02-10 | 2024-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fool and His Folly.
Orange Terrell shot his rival then committed suicide by police. |
2024-02-03 | 2024-02-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Robert and Kate.
Mrs. Southern stabbed her husband's mistress. |
2024-01-27 | 2024-01-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Wicked Words Interview.
Author Robert Wilhelm |
2024-01-22 | 2024-01-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Suspicious Burglary.
Did Dr. Kniffin conspire with his mistress to murder his wife? |
2024-01-20 | 2024-01-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Willis-Hultz Tragedy.
W.C. Hultz sealed his fate by sleeping with Lemuel Willis's wife. |
2024-01-13 | 2024-03-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poor Pretty Maggie.
Did the autopsy doctor deliberately hide evidence of Maggie Hourigan's murder? |
2024-01-06 | 2024-01-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Drunken Animosity.
A Fatal Family Feud. |
2024-01-06 | 2024-01-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Georgianna Lovering.
13-year-old girl killed by The Northwood Murderer. |
2023-12-30 | 2023-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot on Christmas Eve.
"Boston had added another murder to its long score.” |
2023-12-23 | 2023-12-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Home of the Benders.
The Machinery of Murder. |
2023-12-16 | 2023-12-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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2023-12-14 | 2023-12-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mad with Jealousy.
Jealousy drove Frank Garvin to murder his bride. |
2023-12-09 | 2023-12-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Tom and Catherine.
Liquor hastened the demise of two wicked lovers. |
2023-12-02 | 2023-12-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fatal Frolic.
A practical joke takes a deadly turn. |
2023-11-25 | 2023-11-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fan's Obsession.
James Dougherty's obsession with actress Mary Anderson led to murder. |
2023-11-18 | 2023-11-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Love and Lunacy.
Did love for Mary Kelly drive Charley McGill mad? |
2023-11-11 | 2023-12-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Special Guests.
On our 14th anniversary, we celebrate our guest bloggers. |
2023-11-04 | 2023-11-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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eBook & Paperback Sweepstakes!
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2023-10-29 | 2023-10-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jacob S. Harden.
Life, Confession, and Letters of Courtship. |
2023-10-29 | 2023-10-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Rum and the Knife.
Drunk and angry, Peter Mahoney stabbed the wrong person. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2023-10-21 | 2023-12-17 | Edit | Delete |
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The Remains of Schilling.
Herman Schilling was murdered and cremated in Cincinnati, 1874. |
2023-10-14 | 2023-10-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fiend and a Shotgun.
Pete Egbert, of Rockville, Indiana, went suddenly and inexplicably insane. |
2023-10-07 | 2023-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Murdered Mother.
His family's insanity could not save Elmer Sharkey from the gallows. |
2023-09-30 | 2023-09-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Political Protection.
Did political influence save "Tonce" Joy's killers? |
2023-09-23 | 2023-09-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Modern Cain and Abel.
Tale of anguish, tale of sorrow, tale of bloodshed and of hate. |
2023-09-16 | 2023-09-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Harry and Elizabeth.
A bad marriage ending in murder. |
2023-09-09 | 2023-09-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Groton Tragedy.
The tragedy of a brutal murder may have been compounded by imprisonment of an innocent man. |
2023-09-02 | 2025-02-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Morbid and Melancholy.
Susannah Marston's struggle with depression ended tragically. |
2023-08-26 | 2023-08-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Courtroom Melee.
A dispute resolved in court, but not by the legal system. |
2023-08-19 | 2023-08-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Bartholomew Burke's Murder.
One of New York's great unsolved crimes. |
2023-08-12 | 2023-08-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Youthful Patricide.
Herbert Warren put an end to his father's abuse. |
2023-08-05 | 2023-12-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Anna Wheeler's Killer.
MIldred Brewster murdered her rival for a young man's affections. |
2023-07-29 | 2023-07-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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"With My Knife I Cut Her Throat."
Jesse Pomeroy was 14 years old when he stabbed and killed 10-year-old Katie Curran. |
2023-07-22 | 2023-07-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Rejected Suitor.
William Erving could not tolerate rejection. |
2023-07-15 | 2023-12-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Murderer Murdered.
Charles Jefferds was murdered in prison before he could be executed. |
2023-07-08 | 2023-07-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Schoonmaker Tragedy.
Harry Schoonmaker was determined to leave the world and take someone with him. |
2023-07-01 | 2023-12-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fatal Beauty.
Annie Goodwin's beauty led her astray. |
2023-06-28 | 2023-06-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Mafia Murder?
Was Salvatore Serrio's murder a Mafia vendetta? |
2023-06-24 | 2023-06-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Convenient Murder.
Fannie Stillwell remarried soon after her husband's murder. |
2023-06-17 | 2023-06-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Uri Carruth.
A political feud ends in murder. |
2023-06-10 | 2023-06-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Escape from the Death-House.
A daring escape becomes an enduring mystery. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2023-06-03 | 2023-06-26 | Edit | Delete |
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With a Butcher’s Keen Blade.
Thomas Pallister (alias, Kelly) stabbed two policemen with a butcher knife. |
2023-05-27 | 2023-06-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderer Quickly Caught.
Killer captured before murder reported. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2023-05-20 | 2023-06-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Annie Harman and Ephraim Snyder.
Brutal murder after a party. |
2023-05-13 | 2023-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Moody-Tolliver Feud.
Guest blogger, Bob Moody. |
2023-05-06 | 2023-05-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murdered Congressman.
Cornelius Hamilton killed by his insane son. |
2023-04-29 | 2023-05-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Dansville Poisoning Case.
Poisoner Isaac L. Wood had a theatrical execution. |
2023-04-22 | 2023-04-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Trunkful of Trouble.
The first victim of a murder spree. |
2023-04-15 | 2023-04-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Cowardly and Unprovoked.
Hit from behind with an iron car-hook. |
2023-04-08 | 2023-04-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Husband's Vengeance.
John Kolesko shot his wife when she wouldn't return to him. |
2023-04-01 | 2023-04-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Cruel Axe.
James E. Nowlin chopped George Codman into pieces. |
2023-03-25 | 2023-03-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Francis Colvin's Skull.
An exhibit in his killer's trial. |
2023-03-18 | 2023-03-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Most Atrocious Murder.
Elaborate coverup of cold-blooded killing. |
2023-03-11 | 2023-05-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Colt-Adams Murder.
John C. Colt murdered Samuel Adams and tried to ship his corpse to New Orleans. |
2023-03-04 | 2023-03-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Maria Bickford.
Beautiful prostitute murdered in Boston in 1845. |
2023-02-25 | 2023-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Affair of Blood and Mystery.
Murder/Suicide or something else? |
2023-02-18 | 2023-05-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Sarah Jane Gould.
Poisoned by her fiance. |
2023-02-11 | 2023-02-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Arson to Hide a Worse Crime.
Mrs. J.W. Kines and her three children were murdered before the killers torched her house. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2023-02-04 | 2023-05-06 | Edit | Delete |
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The Murderous Barker Brothers.
Murdered Harvey Keith for adultery. |
2023-01-28 | 2023-01-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Henry G. Green.
Murdered his wife for reasons unknown. |
2023-01-21 | 2023-01-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Erring Wives and Jealous Husbands.
Flirting with other men's wives can be fatal. |
2023-01-14 | 2024-05-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murdered at Prayer.
Lucy Caldwell split her husband's skull as he knelt in prayer. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2023-01-07 | 2023-05-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Murder Among the Whyos.
Murder ended the reign of Driscoll and Lyons |
2022-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Ellen Lucas.
Ellen Lucus never came home the night before her wedding. |
2022-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Baltimore Sorrow.
Lizzie James’s love set off a chain of events that ended in sorrow. |
2022-12-23 | 2022-12-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Best Books We Read this Year.
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2022-12-22 | 2022-12-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Snyder-Harman Murder.
Did Ephriam Snyder kill Annie Harman? |
2022-12-17 | 2023-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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So Far from Home Audiobook.
Listen to a sample... |
2022-12-14 | 2022-12-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Cold Spring Tragedy.
The murder of Jacob and Nancy Young. |
2022-12-10 | 2022-12-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Trial, Life and Confessions of Charles Cook.
“I labored upon the control of a single passion, it was that of sexual fondness; and whenever frustrated in my attempts to gratify it, the spirit of" |
2022-12-03 | 2022-12-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Howe and Hummel.
The most successful criminal lawyers in Gilded Age New York. |
2022-11-26 | 2022-12-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Impossible Suicide.
Thomas Barrows had too many bullet wounds for suicide. |
2022-11-19 | 2022-11-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous Assault.
An argument leads to bloody murder. |
2022-11-12 | 2022-11-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Love and Law.
The tragic love affair between Charles Kring and Dora Broemser ended in one maddened instant |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2022-11-05 | 2022-11-05 | Edit | Delete |
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The Confession of Myron Buel.
When Catherine Richards rejected Myron Buel's proposal, he took revenge. |
2022-10-29 | 2022-10-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Minerva Dutcher.
Illicit infatuation with Minerva Dutcher drove George Crozier to poison his wife. |
2022-10-22 | 2022-10-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mysterious Murder in Baltimore.
Dr. Merriman Cole was found murdered in his Baltimore office. |
2022-10-15 | 2022-10-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Frank C. Almy.
When Christie Warden did not return his love, Almy took it at gunpoint. |
2022-10-08 | 2022-10-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Walton-Matthews Tragedy.
Two men murdered on the streets of New York in 1860. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2022-10-01 | 2022-10-01 | Edit | Delete |
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"Horrors on Horror's Head."
Grave robber Henry Kendall was shot in the head when he tried to steal one corpse too many. |
2022-09-24 | 2022-09-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Harum-Scarum Creature.
“In youth, she was always a harum-scarum creature, and the prediction then made that she would come to no good, appears to have been fulfilled.” |
2022-09-17 | 2022-09-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Ashland Outrage.
“One of the most atrocious and hellish murders ever committed in a civilized community.” |
2022-09-10 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Clemmer's Hypnotic Power.
Did Charles Kaiser murder his wife under hypnosis? |
2022-09-03 | 2022-09-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Did Lizzie Confess?
A hoax from the 1950s. |
2022-08-27 | 2022-08-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Ogden and Howard.
Charles Ogden, Washington Howard, and Zadoc Damrell were all in love with Sarah Ann Ogden. |
2022-08-20 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The French Monster.
Serial killer, Joseph LaPage. |
2022-08-13 | 2022-08-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mrs. Southern's Sad Case.
When another woman went after her husband, Kate Southern ended it forever. |
2022-08-06 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Phrenological Character of Reuben Dunbar.
Reuben Dunbar murdered his two young stepbrothers to protect his inheritance. |
2022-07-30 | 2022-07-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Bad Tom" Smith.
After getting way with 7 murders "Bad Tom" Smith was finally brought to justice. |
2022-07-23 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysterious Murder of Bessie Little.
A missing pistol held the key to Bessie Little's death. |
2022-07-16 | 2022-07-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mad Infatuation.
Mary Linnett's female relationships always ended badly. |
2022-07-09 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Strang Shooting Whipple.
A torrid affair led to the murder of John Whipple. |
2022-07-02 | 2022-07-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder by Mail.
Cordelia Botkin sent her rival a box of chocolates laced with arsenic. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2022-06-25 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete |
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The Meierhoffer Murder.
Who murdered John Meierhoffer of Orange, New Jersey? |
2022-06-18 | 2022-06-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murdered in Church.
Ferdinand Hoffman stabbed his ex-wife 18 times. |
2022-06-11 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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2022-06-10 | 2022-06-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Tragedy on 30th Street.
“Help! Help! Oh, my God! Frank is murdering the whole family." |
2022-06-04 | 2022-06-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Neosho Murder.
The death of an Indian trader. |
2022-05-28 | 2022-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mashing Murderer Maxwell.
Futile flirtation. |
2022-05-21 | 2022-05-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot by His Sister-in-Law.
Jane Sullivan was through suffering in silence. |
2022-05-14 | 2022-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Codman Murder.
George Codman's body parts were found in the snow in Lexington, MA. |
2022-05-07 | 2022-05-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Nathan Murder.
A classic locked-room mystery. |
2022-04-30 | 2022-04-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot Man and Wife.
William Keck murdered his neighbors for $6. |
2022-04-23 | 2022-04-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Rare Photo of America's Youngest Serial Killer.
Discovery of a Previously Unknown Photograph of Jesse Pomeroy, America’s Youngest Serial Killer. |
2022-04-16 | 2022-04-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Triple Tragedy.
Three dead from gunshot wounds in Pennsylvania saloon. |
2022-04-09 | 2022-04-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Who Killed Lottie Morgan?
No motive was found for the brutal axe murder. |
2022-04-02 | 2022-04-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Salvation Army Tragedy.
“…a queer combination of jealousy and semi-religious frenzy.” |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2022-03-26 | 2022-03-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Scott Jackson's "Evil Eye."
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2022-03-22 | 2022-03-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Inhumanly Murdered.
The first successful use of the sleepwalking defense. |
2022-03-19 | 2022-03-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Weapons of Vengeance.
Brooklyn’s Italian community vehemently denied the existence of any such organization as the Mafia. |
2022-03-12 | 2022-03-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Deathbed Marriage.
For reasons never made clear, Frank Zabel fired three shots into his brother’s chest. |
2022-03-12 | 2022-03-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Shooting of Albert Richardson.
Did Daniel McFarland murder Albert Richardson out of malice or insanity? |
2022-03-05 | 2022-03-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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2022-03-03 | 2022-03-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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2022-03-01 | 2022-03-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Seduction and Murder.
Mary Ann Sevindell took issue with the settlement of her lawsuit. |
2022-02-26 | 2022-02-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Long Island Tragedy.
The normally serene farming community was thrown into a state of confusion. |
2022-02-19 | 2022-02-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Double Tragedy.
William Vannar's intemperance led to two tragic deaths. |
2022-02-12 | 2022-02-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Obsession.
James Dougherty's obsession with actress Mary Anderson became his controlling passion. |
2022-02-05 | 2022-02-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Concealing his Bloody Work.
He arranged the bodies in straight rows and covered them with hay. |
2022-01-29 | 2022-01-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Her Struggle was Useless.
The life-blood was pouring from a gaping wound in her throat. |
2022-01-27 | 2022-01-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Brutal and Cowardly Murder.
The people of Monterey County had enough of Matt Tarpey's bullying. |
2022-01-22 | 2022-01-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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So Far from Home.
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2022-01-19 | 2022-01-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Ging Murder Case.
The Minneapolis Svengali. |
2022-01-15 | 2022-01-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Pearl Bryan.
Pearl Bryan was the belle of Greencastle, Indiana. |
2022-01-13 | 2022-01-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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"I Caught Them in the Act."
When CF Stephens caught his wife with Frank Wilkerson, the wrong man died. |
2022-01-08 | 2022-01-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Alonzo Walling.
Scott Jackson's accomplice in Pearl Bryan's murder. |
2022-01-05 | 2022-01-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Tragic Benham Mystery.
Married at 15, Dead at 20. |
2022-01-01 | 2022-01-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scott Jackson.
Accused killer of Pearl Bryan. |
2021-12-29 | 2021-12-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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It was Santa Claus' Fault.
Because of a mistake in distributing Christmas presents there is an awful row in a Shwneetown, Ill. church. |
2021-12-25 | 2021-12-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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So Far from Home.
The Pearl Bryan Murder. |
2021-12-20 | 2021-12-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder of Col. Sharp.
Two troubled misfits lashing out at a world they both disdained. |
2021-12-18 | 2021-12-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Michael M’Garvey.
Michael M'Garvey beat his wife to death, but was the murder intentional? |
2021-12-11 | 2021-12-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Wife's Lament.
Mrs. Kenney lamented the murder of her husband by her brother. |
2021-12-04 | 2021-12-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Red Path of Jealousy.
Martha Place, driven by jealousy, strangled her stepdaughter. |
2021-11-27 | 2021-11-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Boy Murderer.
At age 11, John Wesley Elkins was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his father and stepmother. |
2021-11-20 | 2021-11-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Most Horrible Crime of the Age!
William Bachmann was last seen alive at Charles Marlow's brewery. |
2021-11-13 | 2021-11-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hamilton Y. Jones, Detective.
Hamilton Jones was paid to capture the wrong man. |
2021-11-06 | 2021-11-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Insanity Dodge.
Insanity was seldom a popular defense to murder; to the press and the public it was “the insanity dodge.” |
2021-10-30 | 2021-10-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Veiled Murderess!
Henrietta Robinson covered her face with a black veil as she stood trial for murder |
2021-10-23 | 2021-10-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Michigan Double Murder.
A tragic end to an unhappy marriage. |
2021-10-16 | 2021-10-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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“Thus She Passed Away.”
When George Wheeler fell in love with his wife's sister he faced a dilemma: he could not marry her himself and he could not bear to see her wed to another. The solution he chose pleased no one. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2021-10-09 | 2021-10-09 | Edit | Delete |
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A Great Burly, Broad-Shouldered Bully.
The bouncer of the Theatre Comique shot the assistant barkeeper. |
2021-10-02 | 2021-10-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Very Pathetic and Truly Remarkable.
A family feud resulted in two murders and two controversial trial verdicts. |
2021-09-25 | 2021-09-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Edward H. Rulloff.
Genius, conman, killer. |
2021-09-18 | 2026-01-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot by Her Stepson.
16-year-old Thomas McCabe shot his stepmother. |
2021-09-11 | 2025-07-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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Slain at the Alter.
James Baptiste was stabbed at his wedding by a former lover. |
2021-09-04 | 2021-09-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Fate of a Seducer.
Fanny Windley Hyde shot her seducer, George W. Watson. |
2021-08-28 | 2021-08-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Caused by Jealousy.
Mrs. Christiansen's paramour kills her husband and ends his own life. |
2021-08-21 | 2021-08-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Piper and his Crimes.
Thomas Piper murdered three, including 5-year-old Mabel Young. |
2021-08-14 | 2021-08-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Baltimore Borgia.
Mrs. Wharton's houseguests had a habit of dying. |
2021-08-07 | 2021-08-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jealousy and Murder.
Cora Young shot her man out of jealosy. |
2021-07-31 | 2021-07-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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2021-07-29 | 2021-07-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Poison Fiend.
"Lydia Sherman is plagued with ratsLydia has no faith in cats.So Lydia buys some arsenic," |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2021-07-24 | 2021-07-24 | Edit | Delete |
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A Cowardly Lover.
Jap Rainey shot his lover through an open window. |
2021-07-17 | 2021-07-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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2021-07-15 | 2021-07-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Transitory Frenzy.
Charles E. Henry came to Denver, Colorado, in 1887 determined to live the fast life and got more than he bargained for. |
2021-07-10 | 2021-07-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Body of Mena Muller.
Her marriage ended badly after a bottle of wine. |
2021-07-03 | 2021-07-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Outraged Father.
James Nash had no patience for the wheels of justice. |
2021-06-26 | 2021-06-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Betrayed and Murdered at the Reservoir.
Parental hostility drove Fanny Madison out of her home and into the arms of her cousin, Thomas Cluverius. It was not a good decision. |
2021-06-19 | 2021-06-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Weight of Grief.
Fanny Windley Hyde shot her lecherous boss “under a weight of grief that could not be resisted." |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2021-06-12 | 2021-06-12 | Edit | Delete |
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She Killed the Beast.
When sober, Charles Gould was a loving husband; when drunk, he became a savage beast. |
2021-06-05 | 2021-06-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Had No Use For Men."
The "girl lover" tried at Memphis, Tenn." |
2021-05-29 | 2021-05-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Cannibal of Austerlitz.
Executing Oscar Beckwith, elderly hermit and alleged cannibal, proved challenging |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2021-05-22 | 2021-05-22 | Edit | Delete |
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A Lovely Murderess.
Lucy Mink, alias Lulu Martin had a habit of losing lovers to gunshot wounds. |
2021-05-15 | 2021-06-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poor Little Alice.
The three-day search for Alice Sterling ended at a shallow grave. |
2021-05-08 | 2021-05-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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James E. Eldredge.
Everyone learned to distrust anything that James Eldredge said except his fiancé, Sarah Jane Gould. She remained trusting to the end, when Eldredge poisoned Sarah Jane to pursue her younger sister. |
2021-05-01 | 2021-05-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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2021-04-29 | 2023-12-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Fisk Assassination.
Love triangle ends in disaster. |
2021-04-24 | 2021-04-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Dilliard Tragedy.
Aaron Dilliard was murdered by his wife and her lover. |
2021-04-17 | 2021-04-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysterious Murder of Pretty Rose Ambler.
The brutal murder of Rose Ambler remains unsolved. |
2021-04-10 | 2021-04-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Yes, I Shot to Kill."
Commerce in downtown Omaha was interrupted when Mrs. Eloise Rudiger shot her lover on the street then turned the gun on herself. |
2021-04-03 | 2021-04-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Wilton Tragedy.
Serial poisoner Edwin Major was finally brought to justice. |
2021-03-27 | 2021-03-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Life and Execution of John Hanlon.
John Hanlon was hanged for the murder of 6-year-old Mary Mohrman. |
2021-03-20 | 2021-03-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murders in Church.
Superintendent of Sunday School, Theo Durrant, aka "Demon of the Belfry." |
2021-03-13 | 2021-03-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous Maine.
The State of Maine was the site of many brutal and mysterious murders. |
2021-03-06 | 2021-03-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Kaiser Conspiracy.
A murder staged as highway robbery. |
2021-02-27 | 2021-03-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mrs. Halliday in Handcuffs.
The worst woman on earth. |
2021-02-20 | 2021-02-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Rogers Murder.
The murder of Charles Rogers Shocked New York and baffled the police. |
2021-02-13 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Rogers Murder.
The murder of Charles Rogers Shocked New York and baffled the police. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2021-02-13 | 2021-02-13 | Edit | Delete |
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The Rescue of Ameer Ben Ali.
Whether Ali stated that he committed the crime is irrelevant since he didn't murder Carrie Brown. |
2021-02-06 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Murder in Pantomime.
Deaf 4-year-old Rosa Lochner acted out her mother’s murder |
2021-01-30 | 2021-01-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murdered Alice Brown.
Alice Brown strangled in Boston, 1897. |
2021-01-23 | 2021-01-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Good News! Three Cheers!
Did this young drunken, diseased, conniving, duplicitous, libertine deserve mercy? |
2021-01-16 | 2021-01-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mabbitt Mystery.
Either Luella Mabbitt was murdered in Indiana or living happily in Texas, either way Amer Green would pay with his life. |
2021-01-09 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mrs. Minnie Walkup.
Married at 16, widowed a month later. |
2021-01-02 | 2021-01-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Connell Homicide.
Judged by the company he kept, William Connell was the victim of an unprovoked shooting. |
2020-12-26 | 2020-12-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Rough on Rats.
Rough on Rats was a cheap but effective rat poison that also worked on humans. |
2020-12-19 | 2020-12-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fatal Jealousy.
Mahnken emerged from his store brandishing a “British bull dog” revolver. Without a word Mahnken fired five shots into Deidrich Steffens—four to the head, one to the chest. |
2020-12-12 | 2020-12-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fiend, or Innocent Victim?
"Sausage King of Chicago" dissolved his wife in a vat of lye. |
2020-12-05 | 2020-12-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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The East River Murder.
A mutilated torso floating with the tide left New York City Police with an insoluble mystery |
2020-11-28 | 2020-11-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Who Murdered Dr. Cronin?
Old Cap. Collier, the fictional dime novel detective, tries his hand at solving the murder of Dr. Cronin. |
2020-11-21 | 2020-11-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Theatrical Execution.
The hanging of serial poisoner Isaac Wood. |
2020-11-14 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Dark Kentucky Tragedy.
A bitter political feud ended in bloodshed at a Lexington post office in 1889. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2020-11-07 | 2020-11-07 | Edit | Delete |
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The Meyer Poisoning Sensation.
An elaborate plan to defraud insurance companies |
2020-10-24 | 2020-10-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Ameer Ben Ali & an Actor's Tale.
Guest post from Howard and Nina Brown of JTRForums.com. |
2020-10-17 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Night of Debauchery.
A night of debauchery in Mrs. Hayes “house of ill-fame” in Chicago, left a body decomposing in a top floor closet. |
2020-10-10 | 2020-10-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The End of Mina.
Cuban Exile Carolino Amalia Espos y Mina conspired with Lucretia Chapman to murder her husband. |
2020-10-03 | 2020-10-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hauling the Supposed Remains of Goss from the Fire.
William Udderzook and Winfield Goss conspired to defraud four insurance companies in 1873. |
2020-09-19 | 2020-09-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Horrible Murder in Twelfth Street.
Mrs. Shancks was found murdered in her 12th street millenary store. |
2020-09-12 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bitter Fruit of a Jest.
Milton Streeter’s irrational jealousy was aggravated by local jokers with fatal results. |
2020-09-05 | 2020-09-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scene of the Murder of Mansfield Tracy Walworth.
Frank Walworth shot his father in a NY hotel room. |
2020-08-22 | 2020-08-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Assassination of Corlis.
Charles Corlis was gunned down on the street by an anonymous assassin. |
2020-08-22 | 2020-08-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Baldwinsville Homicide.
The discovery of a body in the Seneca River, decomposed beyond recognition, left the town of Baldwinsville with a nearly unsolvable mystery. |
2020-08-15 | 2023-03-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Utterly Unprovoked Shooting.
Romaine Dillon shot John Dilleber for walking down a hotel hallway. |
2020-08-08 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Death-Sentence Pronounced on Edward S. Stokes.
Ned Stokes' death sentence was never carried out. |
2020-08-01 | 2020-08-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Reverend Green, Wife-Poisoner.
Having a surplus of wives, Rev. Green dispatched one with poison. |
2020-07-25 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scenes from the Twichell/Hill Murder.
George Twitchell threw his mother-in-law out the window of her Philadelphia home. |
2020-07-18 | 2020-07-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Tragedy at Vineland.
Tired of being mocked by the Vineland Independent, Chas. Landis shot the editor. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2020-07-11 | 2024-04-17 | Edit | Delete |
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The School-girl Murder.
14-Year-old Mamie Kelly had a crush on the boy next door. It did not end well. |
2020-07-04 | 2020-07-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scene of the Murder of Mabel H. Young.
5-year-old girl murdered in a church belfry. |
2020-06-27 | 2020-06-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bessie Little Mystery.
Was she killed by her lover, or did she shoot herself in the head—twice? |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2020-06-20 | 2022-07-16 | Edit | Delete |
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The Bridgeport Tragedy.
James Lattin was a merciless brute who feigned love and murdered his betrothed. |
2020-06-13 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Execution of Emil Lowenstein.
Emil Lowenstein was hanged for the murder of John Weston, April 10, 1874. |
2020-06-06 | 2020-06-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Miss Elizabeth Petty.
Cat lady murdered for her money in Newark, New Jersey, December 27, 1893. |
2020-05-30 | 2020-05-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Judge Lynch in Pennsylvania.
Axe Murderer lynched in Pennsylvania, 1880. |
2020-05-23 | 2020-05-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem.
The sensational murders of businessman, Jacob Young and his wife in Indianapolis, in 1868, exposed a web of financial fraud controlled by Mrs. Nancy E. Clem. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2020-05-16 | 2020-05-16 | Edit | Delete |
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The Wakemanite Murder.
The Wakemanites believed that Justus Mathews had to be killed to save the world. |
2020-05-09 | 2020-05-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Late Miss Jennie E. Cramer.
Souvenir card of murder victim Jennie Cramer |
2020-05-02 | 2020-05-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Unwritten Law.
Robert McBride was well aware that he violated “the unwritten law” of southern etiquette when he told Mrs. Patrick Meehan he loved her. Mr. Meehan had no choice but to kill him. |
2020-04-25 | 2020-04-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Trial of Daniel E. Sickles.
First successful temporary insanity plea in America. |
2020-04-18 | 2020-04-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Horrible and Mysterious Murder.
Bartholomew Burke was found slashed and mangled in a Broadway tailor shop. No one knows why. |
2020-04-11 | 2020-04-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Told in Pictures.
Did "Sailor" Brown strangle Maggie Crowley? |
2020-04-04 | 2026-05-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Love and Arsenic.
As Arthur Ragan lay dying, his Wife Elizabeth said he had poisoned himself, but there was reason to suspect that she had given him arsenic, for the love of another man. |
2020-03-28 | 2020-03-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Slaughter Ends a Wedding Feast.
An idle boast by the groom turns a wedding feast into a blood bath. |
2020-03-21 | 2020-03-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Revisiting the Goffle Road Murders.
Guest post by author Don Everett Smith Jr. |
2020-03-14 | 2023-11-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Secession Murder Case.
Arguing politics in a saloon could be fatal. |
2020-03-07 | 2020-03-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Crazy John Daley.
“Daley became a homicidal maniac through a frenzy of religious excitement.” |
2020-02-29 | 2020-02-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Nellie C. Bailey.
“In youth, she was always a harum-scarum creature, and the prediction then made that she would come to no good, appears to have been fulfilled.” |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2020-02-22 | 2020-02-21 | Edit | Delete |
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Six Men Hanged.
Guest post from ExecutedToday.com. |
2020-02-15 | 2020-02-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Katie Dugan Mystery.
Whose baby was Katie Dugan carrying when her throat was slashed? |
2020-02-08 | 2020-02-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Thirtieth Street Murder.
Frank Gouldy addressed his family issues with a dull hatchet. |
2020-02-01 | 2020-02-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fearful Fratricide.
The Rogers brothers used violence to settle family disputes |
2020-01-25 | 2020-01-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in the Well.
Guest Post - Shelley Dziedzic from Lizzie Borden Warps & Wefts. |
2020-01-18 | 2020-01-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fatal Family Feud.
A drunken debauch in the Armstrong household ended badly. |
2020-01-11 | 2020-01-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Insane Explorer.
The hardships of a failed arctic expedition left James Bartlett dangerously insane. |
2020-01-04 | 2020-01-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Caught in Bad Company.
Mrs. Luke Dimick could not abide her husband's fondness for ladies of the night and put an end to it with her revolver in a Rock Island bawdy house. |
2019-12-28 | 2019-12-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Christmas Poisoning.
Capt. David Paye's Christmas was spoiled by an arsenic laden pie. |
2019-12-21 | 2019-12-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Olive Peany.
Guest post from Undine, strangeco.blogspot.com |
2019-12-16 | 2019-12-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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“Happy Bob.”
Dubbed “Happy Bob” by the Salvation Army, Robert Van Brunt seldom lived up to his nickname. At his happiest he was indifferent at best, at his unhappiest he was downright dangerous. |
2019-12-14 | 2019-12-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Parricide's Tale.
Robert Elder could take no more of his father's abuse. |
2019-12-07 | 2019-12-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Judge Lynch in Pennsylvania.
Axe Murderer lynched in Pennsylvania, 1880. |
2019-11-30 | 2019-12-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Dr. Burdell.
Fictional dime novel detective Old King Brady solves the Bond Street Mystery! |
2019-11-23 | 2019-11-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Medford Mystery.
The mystery of Walter Debbins murder in Medford, MA grew more dense with each new revelation. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2019-11-16 | 2019-11-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Assassination of Captain Watkins
A Guest Post by Kyle Dalton, BritishTars.com. |
2019-11-09 | 2019-12-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Tenth Anniversary!
Ten years of Murder by Gaslight. |
2019-11-02 | 2019-11-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Married at 15, Dead at 20.
Maybe Howard Benham’s young, healthy, wealthy wife died of heart failure. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2019-10-26 | 2019-11-09 | Edit | Delete |
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Liquor and Jealousy.
James Campbell was too drunk to see that his wife was not cheating with his old friend. |
2019-10-19 | 2019-10-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Troubling Spirit.
Haunted by his victim’s face, John Delaney was driven to confess. |
2019-10-12 | 2019-11-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Poughkeepsie Tragedy.
Joseph Fischer should have minded his own business. |
2019-10-05 | 2019-10-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Andrew Hellman, alias Adam Horn.
Andrew Hellman changed his name but not is demeanor. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2019-09-28 | 2019-10-12 | Edit | Delete |
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Shot by a Jealous Husband.
Daniel Monahan’s wife drove him to a fit of murderous frenzy. |
2019-09-21 | 2019-10-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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“A Romance of Crime.”
Jimmy Logue was guilty of many crimes but not of murder. |
2019-09-07 | 2019-09-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hattie Woolsteen.
Was a Los Angeles dentist shot by his deceived lover? |
2019-08-31 | 2019-09-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lunatic Dougherty.
James Dougherty’s delusional love of famous actress Mary Andrson turned fatal. |
2019-08-24 | 2019-09-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Mount Holly Tragedy.
Barclay Peak shot his 16-year-old cousin Katie Anderson. |
2019-08-17 | 2019-08-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Lawrenceburg Shanty-boat Mystery.
The wedding tour of John and Eva Keys became a bloody mystery. |
2019-08-10 | 2019-08-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Ebenezer Stanyard.
Ebenezer Stanyard's love for Alice Hancock was obsessive, but was it insane? |
2019-08-03 | 2024-11-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Wolf Creek Tragedy.
A dispute between families ends with a mysterious murder. |
2019-07-26 | 2026-03-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Day of Blood.
Adolph Stein said he would not live without his wife, Lizzie. They should have listened. |
2019-07-20 | 2019-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder at the Pool Table.
A Dastardly and Unprovoked Crime. |
2019-07-13 | 2019-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot Down Remorselessly.
William Sindram was a totally disagreeable individual who killed without remorse. |
2019-07-06 | 2019-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Money Matters.
Michael Heenan valued money more than life. |
2019-06-29 | 2019-06-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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"The Beer Pitcher Murder."
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2019-06-26 | 2019-06-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Butler County Tragedy.
Harper Whitmire couldn't bear the remorse over committing a double murder. |
2019-06-22 | 2019-07-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Maggie Hourigan Mystery.
What happened when Maggie Horrigan left the house on October 19, 1889, is anybody’s guess. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2019-06-15 | 2019-07-27 | Edit | Delete |
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The Dunham Murder.
Police had trouble determining which of William Dunham's numerous enemies shot him. |
2019-06-08 | 2019-06-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Delaware Avenue Murder.
When Montgomery Gibbs met Clarence and Sadie Robinson on Delaware Avenue, it did not end well. |
2019-06-01 | 2019-06-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Forgery, Murder, and Suicide.
If Annie Chapman’s father had shown some mercy two lives could have been spared. |
2019-05-25 | 2019-06-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Professional Malpractioner.
Dr. Henry McGonigal had a reputation as an unskilled abortionist. |
2019-05-18 | 2019-06-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Illustrated.
Graphic images depicting brutal crimes often accompanied murder stories in 19th Century publications. |
2019-05-11 | 2019-05-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bangor Mystery.
The mystery of William Elliot's murder may or may not have been solved 9 yrs later. |
2019-05-04 | 2019-05-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Snell Murder.
A multi-year, worldwide manhunt failed to locate the killer of Chicago millionaire Amos Snell. |
2019-04-20 | 2019-04-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Three Victims of Jealousy.
Norman Lounsberry took drastic steps to stop his young wife from cheating. |
2019-04-13 | 2019-04-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Italian Vendetta.
Testifying against a fellow Italian-American, put Giacchino Cocchiara’s life in peril. |
2019-04-06 | 2019-04-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysteries of Mary Tobin.
The many mysteries surrounding Mary Tobin’s death have never been solved. |
2019-03-29 | 2019-04-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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With a Knife in His Heart.
In a drunken rage “Snip” Donovan fatally stabbed his friend John Chew. |
2019-03-23 | 2019-04-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lewis Wolf Webster.
It took three murder trials to free Lewis Webster. |
2019-03-16 | 2019-04-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Society Well Rid of Him.
No tears were shed at Edward Hovey’s hanging. |
2019-03-09 | 2019-03-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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What Next?
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2019-02-23 | 2019-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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In Flagrante Delicto.
Did Henry Meyers catch his wife and her lover red-handed, or was at a blackmail conspiracy? |
2019-02-16 | 2019-03-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Ruttinger Mystery.
Every attempt to solve the murder of Karl Ruttinger led to deeper mystery. |
2019-02-02 | 2019-02-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jack the Slasher.
Henry Dowd’s slashing spree left one man dead and six with severe throat wounds. |
2019-01-26 | 2019-02-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murdered Coachman.
Joseph Blair shot his coachman - was it self-defense or class warfare. |
2019-01-18 | 2025-06-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Who Shot Meierhoffer?
Only one was guilty but two would pay the ultimate price. |
2019-01-12 | 2019-02-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Rockville Tragedy.
Pete Egbert’s sudden insanity left six people dead. |
2019-01-05 | 2023-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Pelican Point Murders.
Harry Hayes owed his freedom to a Utah sheriff's persuit of the truth. |
2018-12-29 | 2019-01-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Neal Devaney.
Neal Devaney’s infidelity resulted in two deaths. |
2018-12-22 | 2018-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Wash-House Murder.
An excerpt from Wicked Victorian Boston. |
2018-12-15 | 2018-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Act of a Mad Man.
John Marrs was ready to die and decided to take his family with him. |
2018-12-08 | 2018-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Did Ida Do It?
Though the prime suspect in her sister’s murder, Ida Quinlan had no reason to kill her. |
2018-12-01 | 2018-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Righteous Retribution.
When Devil Meiar refused to reform, the citizens of Ripley County, Ohio took matters into their own hands. |
2018-11-24 | 2018-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Stillwell Murder.
For seven years Richard Stillwell ignored the prime suspects in his father’s murder. |
2018-11-17 | 2018-12-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Miser Henry’s Murder.
No one mourned the murder of Charles Henry, but who was responsible remans a mystery. |
2018-11-10 | 2018-11-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Where is Alice Sterling?
Little Alice Sterling was abducted by a trusted family friend. |
2018-11-03 | 2021-05-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Most Horrible Affair.
The body of Indiana businessman, William Montgomery was found floating in the Yazoo River. |
2018-10-20 | 2018-10-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Brooklyn Murderess.
Martha Place, driven by jealousy, strangled her stepdaughter. |
2018-10-13 | 2021-11-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysterious Murder of William Wilson.
Despite the best efforts of police and press, the Philadelphia bookseller’s murder went unavenged. |
2018-10-06 | 2018-10-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Rum, Jealousy and Murder.
Blinded by drink, Thomas Brownlee murdered his friend. |
2018-09-29 | 2018-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Annie Dorman Mystery.
No one could explain how Annie Dorman was shot to death in her own home in broad daylight. |
2018-09-22 | 2018-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Disorder in Court.
The court case of Henry Miller and Dr. Zacharia Walker was settled with guns and knives. |
2018-09-15 | 2018-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Girl Killed in Elevator, A Mystery.
Engineer Farrell Can’t Explain the Strange Facts, and is Held. |
2018-09-08 | 2018-09-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Confessions of Mickey Sliney.
Conflicting statements from the prime suspect prolonged the mystery of Bob Lyons’s murder. |
2018-09-01 | 2018-10-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Waldron Woods Mystery.
Peace in Astoria, Long Island, was shattered by two mysterious deaths. |
2018-08-18 | 2018-09-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Fort Monroe Tragedy.
A pleasant day boating on Chesapeake Bay ended in gunfire. |
2018-08-11 | 2018-09-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Murder Committed Three Years Ago.
A Dying Woman’s Confession |
2018-08-04 | 2018-08-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Insane Man Kills a Fellow Lunatic
An inmate of the insane department of the county home, near Greensburgh, Westmorland county, was murdered this evening |
2018-08-04 | 2018-08-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Unhappy Returns.
Shale Smith came home to find his wife with another man. |
2018-07-28 | 2018-07-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mysterious Murder.
“Mysterious Murder,” Jackson Citizen Patriot, March 3, 1881. |
2018-07-25 | 2018-07-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Insane Jealousy.
Mildred Brewster was driven insane with jealousy over a false-hearted lover. |
2018-07-21 | 2018-09-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Houses of Philadelphia.
Scenes of famous Philadelphia murders. |
2018-07-08 | 2018-07-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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15 Corning Street.
Boston’s daily papers, aggressively following clues to the strangulation of Alice Brown, offered more confusion than clarity. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2018-07-07 | 2018-09-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Mysterious Murder.
A Man Found Dead with Three Bullets in His Brain. |
2018-06-30 | 2018-06-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Sensational Murder Trial.
The preliminary examination of Orrin C. Thomas, arrested on the charge of murder has begun. |
2018-06-30 | 2018-06-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Drunkenness No Excuse.
John McGinnis Convicted of Murder in the First Degree |
2018-06-30 | 2018-06-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Linville Murderer.
Alfred Jones felt it was his duty to kill an adulterous daughter. |
2018-06-16 | 2018-09-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Hidden Skeleton.
Playing cards with Marcellus Bunch, Charley Young lost everything but his bones. |
2018-06-09 | 2018-06-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Grave-Robber’s Fate.
Resurrectionist Henry Kendall was shot when he tried to steal one corpse too many. |
2018-05-26 | 2018-05-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Who Shot “Tonce” Joy?
The killer’s identity was obscured by the Byzantine politic of old Cincinnati. |
2018-05-19 | 2018-05-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Wronged Husband's Revenge.
M.F. Boyd took revenge on Walter Mitchell as he lay sleeping next to Boyd's wife. |
2018-05-05 | 2018-05-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Brown Tragedy.
It’s not clear whether John G. F. Brown’s skull was crushed by his wife or her lover, but both paid for the crime. |
2018-04-28 | 2018-04-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Moment of Agony.
It was a long hard road from Albert Haunstine’s crime to his moment of agony. |
2018-04-14 | 2018-04-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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“I Have Shot My Husband.”
Elizabeth Beechler killed Harry King, who may or may not have been her husband. |
2018-04-07 | 2018-04-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Mysterious Murder.
Unidentified sharp-dressed man found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. |
2018-03-31 | 2021-10-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Massachusetts Butchery.
James Nowlin dismembered his employer and left his body parts along the road to Lexington. |
2018-03-24 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Quickly Avenged.
George Lear murdered Irene Good and soon after was dead as well. |
2018-03-17 | 2018-03-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Duel in the Bedroom.
Batty Buck’s dalliance with his boss’s wife ended in a close-range duel in her bedroom. |
2018-03-10 | 2018-03-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Professional Poisoners.
Dr. & Mrs. Henry Meyer made poisoning their livelihood. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2018-03-04 | 2018-03-04 | Edit | Delete |
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A Kentucky Courtship.
Tom Moore vowed to either marry his sweetheart or murder her father. |
2018-02-24 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Maniac's Deed.
The Lord told Herman Siegler to go and get a gun. |
2018-02-17 | 2018-03-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Newark Wife Murder.
John Chisholm’s shiftless ways left his two children orphaned. |
2018-02-10 | 2018-03-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Peculiar Affair.
Leonard Wilkinson, acted out of character when he broke into Fanny Bennett’s home. |
2018-02-03 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Williamsburg Stabbing Affray.
Otto Schade learned the hard way that no one drinks on credit. |
2018-01-27 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Margaret Howard.
Margaret Howard was driven criminally insane trying to protect her children from her abusive husband. |
2018-01-20 | 2024-03-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Cleveland Axe Murder.
Frank Florin ended a day of hard drinking by killing his wife with an axe. |
2018-01-13 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Squibb Family Murder.
“Irish Bill” Donavan was convicted of the brutal murder of three members of the Squibb family, but professed innocence to the end. |
2018-01-06 | 2018-01-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder by Wholesale.
A Nebraska Man Confesses to Nine Murders. |
2017-12-30 | 2017-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Stranger Than Fiction.
A Man Sentenced for Life for Murder. While Another Man, Perfectly Sane, Declares He Committed the Deed. |
2017-12-29 | 2017-12-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Supposed Horrible Murder.
We give the rumors as wet get them, and do not vouch for the correctness of our story. |
2017-12-29 | 2017-12-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot by Her Lover.
William Dunlap could not tolerate losing the love of Jane Finlay. |
2017-12-16 | 2017-12-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Romantic Story.
A man accused of murder proved innocent after death. |
2017-12-09 | 2017-12-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Modern Macbeth Murder Case.
There has been a suspicion, strengthened by the actions of the woman herself, that Evans’s wife knew more about Poyntz’s death than Evans himself |
2017-12-09 | 2017-12-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Laws of Compensation.
John Dougherty and his wife were well-matched, with fatal results. |
2017-12-02 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Baptized in Blood and Flames.
Robert Laughlin was guilty of rape, murder, and arson. Getting a confession was easy, protecting him from lynch mobs proved challenging. |
2017-11-25 | 2018-03-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder by Little Girls.
The girls stated at the coroner’s inquest that they hated the child and wanted him dead. |
2017-11-18 | 2017-11-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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First Avenue Butchery.
Charles Jacobs was fatally stabbed with his own butcher knife. |
2017-11-11 | 2017-11-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fiend's Work.
His double crime was outrage and murder. |
2017-11-04 | 2017-11-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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2017-10-28 | 2017-10-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Sudden Death, Foul Suspicions.
When John Hendrickson's healthy teenaged wife died suddenly with symptoms of poisoning, suspicion ran wild. |
2017-10-28 | 2017-10-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Curley Confesses.
Miss Whitby’s Murder—The Result of a Bloodthirsty Impulse. |
2017-10-21 | 2017-11-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Deliberate, Damnable Murder.
William Baldwin tried to hide the murder of a brakeman by burning down a railroad depot. |
2017-10-14 | 2017-10-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Cowardly Lover.
In a fit of jealous rage, Jap Rainey murdered his sweetheart. |
2017-10-07 | 2021-07-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Culture of Murder.
How Impulsive Organisms Are Prepared to Do Dark Deeds. |
2017-09-30 | 2017-09-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Confession of Jacob Harden.
Reverend Jacob S. Harden, roped into an unhappy marriage, decided that arsenic was the answer. |
2017-09-23 | 2017-09-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Avenged Her Father’s Murder.
Minna Wright quickly dispatched her father’s attacker but was not fast enough to save his life. |
2017-09-16 | 2017-09-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Indignant Husband’s Crime.
To defend his wife’s honor, Col. Bradford Dunham gave James Cunningham two barrels of buckshot. |
2017-09-09 | 2017-09-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Another Boy Murderer.
Seventeen-year-old Francis Kelly, felt his life threatened by an oppressive employer and decided to strike first. |
2017-08-26 | 2017-09-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Handsome Little Dandy."
Frank Stark, a well-dressed and well-connected slacker, managed to beat a charge of cowardly murder. |
2017-08-19 | 2017-09-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Charley Cook.
Driven by forces beyond his control, Charley murdered the wife of his employer. |
2017-08-12 | 2017-09-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Wicked Victorian Boston.
Wicked Victorian Boston, a new book by Robert Wilhelm |
2017-07-31 | 2017-07-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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Stranger Than a Dime Novel.
Murder Revealed by an Old Letter After Two Years’ Concealment. |
2017-07-22 | 2017-07-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Death for an Insult.
When J.T. Carter was stabbed to death, many residents of Pensacola, Florida felt it served him right. |
2017-07-15 | 2021-10-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fatal Cutting Affray.
Attorney Thomas Reveley took drastic measures when a waiter interrupted his meal. |
2017-07-01 | 2017-07-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Boston Detectives—So Called.
A Startling Record of their Inefficiency—When Did They Ever Work Up a Murder Case to a Successful Issue? |
2017-06-24 | 2017-06-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Kitty Mulcahey.
Kitty Mulcahey’s immaturity got her into deep trouble and just as easily got her out. |
2017-06-10 | 2025-02-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Spiritualism as a Witness in a Murder Case.
It would scarcely be safe as a general thing to trust the intervention of spiritual powers for the detection of crime and for the evidence sufficient to convict its perpetrators. |
2017-06-03 | 2017-06-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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She Didn’t Do as He Wished.
Fred L. Buck of Elgin, Ill, turned himself in to the police for murdering his wife. He told them that she had been living contrary to his wishes, and he had to stop it. |
2017-05-27 | 2017-06-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Dedham Tragedy.
In September 1868, years of mental illness finally got the best of Susannah Marston resulting in her tragic demise and that of her family. |
2017-05-20 | 2017-06-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Sin and Sorrow.
George Ware shot his attorney when he caught him in bed with his wife. The people of Dayton, Ohio were OK with that. |
2017-05-13 | 2024-11-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Foulest Murder Yet.
The Tullis Murder in Sacramento County – A Confession by the Public Administrator that he Instigated It. |
2017-05-06 | 2017-05-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Newmarket Murder.
Servant girl Bridget Durgan brutally murdered her mistress in a vain attempt to steal her husband. |
2017-04-29 | 2017-06-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Augusta Schmidt.
The ward of wealthy German baroness is left with nothing but her pride after shooting an Indiana tenant farmer. |
2017-04-15 | 2017-04-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Confession of a Wife Murderer.
Jealousy and strong drink drove Charles Herman to murder his wife Eva in Buffalo, New York, November 1, 1885. |
2017-04-01 | 2024-04-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Maniac at Des Moines.
The fight with a maniac at a Des Moines (Iowa) hotel. |
2017-03-11 | 2017-03-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Among the Whyos, Part 2.
Confusion surrounds the death of Dan Lyons, leader of the Whyos gang in 1887—most modern accounts say he was executed for murdering a popular amateur athlete, but in fact, he was shot to death by an angry saloonkeeper. Either way, murder led to the demise of the Whyos. |
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A Mystery Solved by a Skeleton.
Complicity of a Wife in the Murder of Her Husband and Children. |
2017-02-25 | 2017-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Among the Whyos, Part 1.
The downfall of the Whyos, New York's most brutal criminal gang, began when Dan Driscoll stole Beezy Garrity from her pimp John McCarthy. |
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Murderous Shooting in a Bagnio.
A Girl Attacked with a Pistol. Case of Jealousy and Revenge |
2017-02-11 | 2017-02-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Monster or Maniac?
Though Sarah Jane Whiteling poisoned her husband at the devil’s request and murdered her daughter to save her from a life of sin, her jury did not believe her insane. |
2017-02-04 | 2017-02-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murders, Murder Trials, Confessions of Murder, Discoveries of Murder, &c., &c.
The last Chicago Democrat 22d ult., is little better than a continued chronicle of horribles. |
2017-01-28 | 2017-01-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Did He Murder His Namesake?
Cornelius Callahan and his cousin, also named Cornelius Callahan, boarded an express train in Meriden, Connecticut; at the end of the line only one Cornelius got off. |
2017-01-21 | 2017-02-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Unsolved Massachusetts.
Massachusetts was the site of America’s most famous unsolved murder – the shocking daylight axe murder of Andrew and Abby Borden. A number of lesser known nineteenth-century Massachusetts murders are unsolved as well and shrouded in mystery just as deep. |
2017-01-14 | 2017-01-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Murderer’s Death Dance.
Fiddling and Singing the Night Before His Execution. |
2017-01-07 | 2017-01-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Her Miserable End.
Alone and troubled in a strange town, Carrie Whitney falls prey to despicable men. |
2016-12-31 | 2017-01-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Christmas Eve Murder.
John F. Foley Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree. |
2016-12-24 | 2016-12-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Orrin De Wolf.
Eliza Ann Stiles promised Orrin De Wolf that they would share her husband William’s estate on his death. William was in poor health and not likely to live another year, but Orrin could not wait. |
2016-12-17 | 2017-08-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Fiendish Deed.
A Father’s Inhuman Act --- He Murders His Daughter By Cleaving Her Head in Twain With an Ax When Asked for Her Hand. |
2016-12-10 | 2016-12-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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“Coal Oil Johnny” Killed.
Tragic End of One of the Most Notorious Swindlers in the Country. |
2016-12-10 | 2016-12-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shocking Murder in New Jersey.
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2016-12-10 | 2016-12-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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A New Method of Wife Murder Invented.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented a new method of murder, which promises to be of great utility to the profession. |
2016-12-09 | 2016-12-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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American Murder Ballads.
The stories of many of America's most memorable murders have been kept alive by folk ballads that have been sung for more than a hundred years |
2016-12-03 | 2016-12-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Killed in a Saloon.
Political Factions Meet in New Orleans and a Fatal Fight Results. |
2016-11-19 | 2016-11-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Discarded Lover.
When Georgia Stone discarded her lover, the consequences proved deadly. |
2016-11-12 | 2016-11-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Insanity.
Insanity has always been a popular murder defense. Sometimes the insanity plea is painfully appropriate, other times it is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
2016-11-05 | 2016-11-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murdered her Mother.
Insane woman beats her mother to death with an iron wrench. |
2016-10-29 | 2016-10-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder as a Luxury.
The Expense of Trying Every Murderer Ever so Many Times. |
2016-10-22 | 2016-10-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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For a Wanton’s Smile.
Charles Ryan's infatuation with prostitute Susie Hess led to a double murder and suicide. |
2016-10-15 | 2016-10-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murderous 1820s.
The 1820s were indeed murderous with most of the country still frontier and the forces of justice barely able to contend with a violent population. |
2016-10-08 | 2016-10-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shocking Murder in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Two Brothers-in-Law Engage in a Difficulty and One Cuts the Other’s Head Off with a Cleaver—Arrest of the Murderer |
2016-10-01 | 2016-10-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Maniac Murderer.
John Anderson was quick to anger and dangerous when provoked, but was he insane? |
2016-09-24 | 2016-10-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Drownings.
Drowning is a very personal method of murder, and always a case of the strong overpowering the weak. |
2016-09-17 | 2016-09-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Betrayal and Mercy.
When the wrong man is condemned to the gallows for the murder of Matilda Gudger, he his saved by the governor's mercy. |
2016-09-10 | 2016-10-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Crime’s Worshippers.
"How murder becomes a virtue and misfortune a misdeed—two suggestive tableaus which every jail in the country has seen enacted." |
2016-09-03 | 2016-09-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous North Carolina.
North Carolina's greatest murders have found their way into enduring American folk songs - not always accurate but always engaging. |
2016-08-20 | 2020-05-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Chong Ong.
Chong Ong, alias Antonio Soloa, was found murdered in his Cuban restaurant. |
2016-08-13 | 2016-09-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Our Current Record of Rowdyism and Murder.
Four brutal, inexcusable, fiendish murders are added to the list of deeds of blood that disgrace our criminal calendar. |
2016-08-06 | 2016-08-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous Ohio.
The Buckeye State has been the scene of some especially gruesome homicides |
2016-07-23 | 2016-07-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Edward S. “Ned” Stokes.
Edward S. "Ned" Stokes who murdered Jim Fisk, America’s most flamboyant and best-loved robber-baron. |
2016-07-16 | 2016-07-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Tale of Deepest Crime.
The Mystery Surrounding a Murder Which Resulted in Four Other Tragedies Made Clear After Many Years. |
2016-07-09 | 2016-07-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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He Emptied his Gun.
Driven mad by jealousy, John Arnold emptied his revolver on his wife, her lover and himself in Indianapolis, 1889. |
2016-07-02 | 2016-07-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous California.
In the early 1800s, California was a region filled with outlaws, drifters, and gold-seekers, with too many murders to document. By the end of the century, though, the Golden State began to see some eastern style murders. |
2016-06-25 | 2016-06-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Domestic Tragedy.
Years of domestic abuse come to an end when Chritian Schau shoots his two daughters in Erie, PA, 1886 |
2016-06-18 | 2016-08-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in a Saloon.
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2016-06-11 | 2016-06-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Chicago Tragedy.
Annie Grundman's excessive drinking ended her marriage and drove her husband to murder and suicide. |
2016-06-04 | 2016-06-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous New Hampshire.
"Live Free or Die" is the motto of the great state of New Hampshire. Everyone has their own interpretation of those words, here are a few of the worst. |
2016-05-28 | 2016-05-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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“The Irish Giant”
When prizefighter Ned O'Baldwin, known as "The Irish Giant," was murdeded by has partner in the liquor business, not everyone in New York City mourned. |
2016-05-21 | 2016-05-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Two Murderers Murder Each Other.
Two murders take justice into their own hands and save Jefferson, Texas the cost of two trials. |
2016-05-14 | 2016-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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Stranglers.
Strangulation is the most intimate form of murder, the killer takes the life of his victim with his bare hands. Perhaps this is why it is used so often to dispatch loved ones and family members. |
2016-05-07 | 2016-05-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Compelled to Die.
Mrs. Nathaniel Strang of Moserville Mich. poisoned her daughter at gunpoint because she feared they were being pursued by murderers. |
2016-04-23 | 2016-04-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Butler Fratricide.
A drunken spree ended with the murder of Henry Butler by his brother Robert. |
2016-04-16 | 2016-04-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Heathenish Murder.
A case of “voudooism” and murder is reported from the very heart of New England. |
2016-04-02 | 2016-04-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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“But you’re stabbed, don’t you know.”
In an unprovoked attack, Brundage H. Welton was stabbed to death by William Gilbert in Bainbridge, NY, Oct. 1, 1888. |
2016-03-19 | 2016-03-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Cup of Affliction.
Mary Runke's “cup of affliction,” was filled with tragic deaths of four family members and the suspicion that she was responsible. |
2016-03-12 | 2016-03-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous Missouri.
The “Show Me State” has been the scene of quite a few sensational murders, including three that inspired memorable songs. |
2016-02-27 | 2016-05-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Kiss of Death.
Frank Sharon kissed his sleeping wife three times, then drew his pistol and shot her in the neck. |
2016-02-20 | 2016-02-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Little Conestoga Creek.
The discovery of the murdered body of Mrs. Mary Dellinger led to the very public airing of her family’s dirty laundry. Calvin Dellinger was a philanderer, an abusive husband, and a sadistic father, but was he a killer as well? |
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A Mystery in Pittsburgh.
The shooting death of an African American restauranter in Pittsburgh is shrouded in mystery. |
2016-02-06 | 2016-02-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jack the Ripper in St. Louis.
Jack, the Ripper, Frightens the Demi Monde of St. Louis. |
2016-01-30 | 2016-01-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Case of General Cole—Society, Law and Murder.
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2016-01-29 | 2016-01-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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A New Jersey Mystery.
“…it might have been a murder ordered by one of the murderous Italian societies, the Maffia, for instance.” Boston Herald, 1889. |
2016-01-23 | 2016-01-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Illicit Infatuation.
George Crozier’s “illicit infatuation” with 18-year-old Minerva Dutcher, had long been the subject of rumor in the small town of Benton, New York. With his wife’s sudden death in the summer of 1875, small-town gossip turned to damning evidence against him. |
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Murderous Chicago.
“…anyone with the faintest knowledge of Chicago will remember that that city has a Crime of the Century every four or five years.” |
2016-01-09 | 2016-01-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Elmira Tragedy.
Two boys playing near a bridge at near Elmira, New York on January 6, 1884 found the body of a young woman frozen in the snow. |
2016-01-02 | 2023-12-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot His Father.
William Howell, of Ashland, Ky., 17 years old, shot and killed his father, John Howell, on Saturday. |
2015-12-26 | 2015-12-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder of a School Mate by Two Girls.
"While the latter was on her way home, after school, they assaulted her—one knocking her down with a base ball bat and the other jumping on her and breaking four of her ribs" |
2015-12-12 | 2015-12-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Hawkins Matricide.
Asbury Hawkins murdered his mother in Islip, New York, October1887. |
2015-12-05 | 2025-04-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murdered in Court.
A bitter rivalry between two Ashland, Ohio newspapers turned bloody in a Cleveland courtroom on October 30, 1887. |
2015-11-28 | 2015-12-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Recent Acquisitions.
Recently acquired murder cartes de visite. |
2015-11-21 | 2015-11-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Little Mary Mohrman.
It was said that Mary Mohrman’s innocence could soften the hardest soul. This was proven to be horribly false. |
2015-11-07 | 2019-10-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in McDowell.
Stephen Efler convicted of beating his wife to death on January 6, 1881 in McDowell, North Carolina. |
2015-10-24 | 2015-11-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Ancient Mystery Solved.
The Perpetrator of One Murder, Which Led to Four Others, Discovered. |
2015-10-17 | 2015-10-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Unrequited Love.
Law student, Andrew Gillen fell in love with Mary Sigerson, his mentor’s sister, but she did not return his affections. Andrew’s unrequited love for Mary led to tragedy. |
2015-10-10 | 2015-11-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The North Carolina Tragedy.
The Reverend George Washington Carawan was a man of violent temper and strong animal passions which were destined to be his downfall. |
2015-10-03 | 2018-11-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Dark Mystery.
Unidentified woman’s body found amid heaps of rubbish in the sub-cellar of the Carlton House hotel. |
2015-09-26 | 2015-10-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murderous New Jersey.
The state of New Jersey has been the scene of quite a few sensational murders, and it was famous in the nineteenth century for swift prosecution and harsh punishment. |
2015-09-19 | 2015-10-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Charcoal Pit Tragedy.
Edgar Johnson went down to the pit and found his brother, Eldridge, stretched out on the smoldering, sod-covered heap of charcoal. His skull had been fractured, his body was bruised and his lower limbs badly burned. |
2015-09-12 | 2015-10-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Hamilton Murder.
A Most Mysterious Tragedy. The circumstances of the tragedy are so very peculiar that no one knows exactly what to make of it. |
2015-09-05 | 2015-09-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Religious Defense of Murder.
In a recent number of his paper, this eminent divine favored the public with his view in the McFarland case. After alluding in the most tender, not to say gingerly, terms to the dastardly murder committed by this person McFarland in the Tribune office |
2015-09-03 | 2015-09-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Guttenberg Murder.
On May 3, 1881, Mena Muller and Louis Kettler took the ferry from New York City to Hoboken, New Jersey. They were going to get married, although they each had a spouse already. The legality of the marriage did not concern them; they were returning to Germany and would start a new life there. But somehow their plans went awry; that night Louis Kettler returned to New York alone and ten days later Mena Muller’s body was found in New Jersey with a fractured skull. |
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Katie Hood's Fate.
Sixteen-year-old Katie Hood left her house in Connersville, Indiana, the evening of Saturday, September 21, 1889 and never returned. |
2015-08-22 | 2015-10-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mystery of Zora Burns.
October 15, 1883 the body of Zora Burns was found on the road outside of Lincoln, Illinois. Her head bruised and her throat cut from ear to ear. There was no apparent motive for the murder. |
2015-08-08 | 2025-02-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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IAN Book of the Year Finalist.
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2015-08-03 | 2015-08-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder! Murder! Murder!
Although nothing in the shape of murder has recently occurred in this city of which the Attorney General could take cognizance, yet are such deeds daily perpetrated as come legitimately under this head. |
2015-08-02 | 2015-08-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The New Hampshire Horror.
A weekend of drunken debauchery in Laconia, New Hampshire ended with a horrible triple murder. |
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Recent Homicides—The Murder Mania.
The community is at present in the midst of a series of shocking murders which seem at undefined intervals to sweep over the face of our civilization, darkening it with a tinge of blood. |
2015-07-11 | 2015-08-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Silver Lake Mystery.
Mary Ann Reinhardt’s body was found in a barrel buried near Silver Lake on Staten Island. Her husband decided to take a new wife and dispose of the old one. |
2015-07-04 | 2023-09-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Portraits of the Nicely Brothers.
Portraits of the Nicely Brothers, who were hanged for the coldblooded murder of Herman Umberger in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania in 1889 |
2015-06-20 | 2015-06-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lottie Volner and Jack Tinker.
Lottie Volner was shot by a disappointed lover, in Rockville, Indiana, October 1885. |
2015-06-13 | 2015-06-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Pet Halsted.
Oliver “Pet” Halsted was a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, and a man of unbridled lust. In 1871, a romance with one of his clients led to his murder. |
2015-06-06 | 2018-04-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Avenging Her Honor.
Mrs. Hannah Martin Southworth avenged her honor by shooting Stephen L. Pettus five times in the back - Brooklyn, 1889 |
2015-05-23 | 2026-02-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Northwood Murderer.
When a drifter came to town and committed murder, he was likely to get away without capture and was prone to kill again. But every now and then a wandering killer was caught and his whole bloody itinerary made public. Such was the case of the Northwood Murderer. |
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2015-05-09 | 2015-05-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Scenes from the Murder of Mary E. Hill.
On November 22, 1868, the body of Mrs. Mary E. Hill was found on the ground outside of her Philadelphia residence. It did not take the police long to realize that she had been beaten to death and her corpse thrown out of a second story window. |
2015-05-09 | 2015-05-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Shot His Wife's Paramour.
Lemuel Willis believed that his wife was being unfaithful and he intended to catch her in the act. |
2015-05-01 | 2015-05-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Tragedy in Dayton.
When George Ware shot his wife's lover, the people of Dayton, Ohio viewed the killing as justified. |
2015-04-28 | 2022-05-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Souvenirs of Murder.
Portraits of killers and their victims were sold to the public as souvenirs of the murders. Here are some photos from the exhibition, pertaining to murders already covered at Murder by Gaslight, including a young Lizzie Borden: |
2015-04-25 | 2015-04-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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John True Gordon.
John True Gordon, convicted of one of Maine’s most gruesome crimes, was also victim of Maine’s most gruesome execution. |
2015-04-18 | 2021-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.
Apparently Lizzie Borden has become a generic villain, like Jesse James or Jack the Ripper, capable of adventures of her own, beyond the bounds of history. |
2015-04-11 | 2015-04-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder. Fifth Act in a Protracted Tragedy.
Murder. Fifth Act in a Protracted Tragedy— Killing of I. C. Willis. |
2015-03-28 | 2015-03-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Triple Murder in Michigan.
William Major murders his wife, daughter, and granddaughter, then hangs himself in Mount Vernon, Mich. |
2015-03-14 | 2015-03-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Caught in the Act.
E Newton Rowell caught his wife in bed with another man and put a permanent end to their affair. |
2015-02-28 | 2024-04-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Remarkable Murder Trial in Florida.
A somewhat remarkable murder trial has just ended at St. Augustine, Fla., with the conviction and sentence to death or Mary Ann Keech, alias Newton, and her nephew, William Newton. |
2015-02-07 | 2015-02-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Queen of the Demimonde.
in accordance with wishes, no man was allowed to attend her funeral. |
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The Kittery Crime.
Thomas Barrows was found dead in his home in Kittery, Maine, on November14, 1883. He was lying in his bed with six bullet wounds in his arms, legs and head. |
2015-01-10 | 2022-11-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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"She Died in Defense of Her Honor."
Did Tillie Smith die defending her honor, or was the wrong man convicted of her murder? |
2015-01-03 | 2017-07-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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A New Year's Murder.
The body of Amasa Sprague was found shot and beaten on the road between his factory and his mansion on New Year’s Day, 1844, and suspicion immediately fell on three members of Sragueville’s Irish community. |
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Maggie Estars
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Praise for <em>The Bloody Century</em>
Praise for The Bloody Century from Anthony Vaver, Author of Early American Criminals and Bound with an Iron Chain and James M. Schmidt, Author of Galveston and the Civil War and Notre Dame and the Civil War |
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The Worst Woman on Earth.
No one disagreed when the press crowned Lizzie Halliday, “Worst woman on earth.” |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2014-12-06 | 2019-05-22 | Edit | Delete |
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The Slayback Homicide.
St. Louis newspaper editor shoots politician in news office confrontation. |
2014-11-29 | 2015-08-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Now Available! <em>The Bloody Century</em>
The Bloody Century: True Tales of Murder in 19th Century America. |
2014-11-23 | 2014-11-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder or Suicide?
The Mystery of the Dead Body Found in the Woods Still Unsolved. |
2014-11-22 | 2015-02-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Jolly Hanging.
A Jolly Hanging. A Tennessee Execution Affords a General Good Time to the Convict and the Crowd. |
2014-11-22 | 2014-11-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murdered his Mother.
Elmer Sharkey crushed his mother’s skull with a maul while she was sleeping. Was it insanity or premeditation? |
2014-11-15 | 2014-11-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Professor Strunk.
An item in the gossip column of the local paper set Prof. Ira Strunk on a course that could only end in murder. |
2014-10-18 | 2018-12-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fanaticism and Murder.
The Quiet Sabbath was broken in upon yesterday by the commission of a horrid murder, in the town of Sandlake, about fourteen miles from Troy, of a daughter by her father and only surviving parent, a man about 60 years of age named John Belding. |
2014-10-11 | 2014-11-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in Boston.
Murder in Boston. A Woman Found Dead on Top of a Railroad Car. |
2014-09-27 | 2014-09-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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More Scenes from the Burdell Murder.
Illustrated portrayal of the murder of Dr. Burdell, as theorized by the post-mortem physicians. |
2014-09-27 | 2014-10-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Long Island Murders.
A series of home invasions on Long Island in 1883 left two dead and threw the normally serene community into a state of chaos. |
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Love, Lust and Murder.
John S. Blackburn, charged with the murder of Mary Jane Lovell in Ross county, last week. The case is one of the most mysterious and dramatic on record. |
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Inartistic Murder.
Art will not have done its duty by murder until it has devised tasteful and cheap appliances with which to help a man out of the world. |
2014-08-16 | 2014-08-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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John Greenwell.
Crook, burglar, and finally murderer, is the man who was ultimately convicted of the murder of Lyman S. Weeks of Brooklyn, N.Y."\ |
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A Shrewd Rascal.
Samuel Smith and his wife Emma appeared to the world as a happy and affectionate young couple until Emma was found dead in their apartment, her head blown apart by a shotgun blast, with Samuel nowhere to be found. |
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The “Rough on Rats” Murder.
Muskegon, Mich., Feb. 19, 1884—The Jury in the case of Mrs. Korun Larson, after being out eighteen hours, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree.. She poisoned John Guild on the first of August last with “Rough on Rats.” |
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Determined on Murder.
James M’Cambrick, After trying several ways of killing Mrs. Cline, finally succeeds by throwing her out of the window. |
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The Wrong Victim.
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The Sailor and the Spiritualist.
Althadine Smith, professional clairvoyant, was unable to predict her own murder. |
2014-06-14 | 2019-07-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Unique Murder in Missouri.
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John J. Delaney
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2014-05-24 | 2014-05-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder at Bloomingdale.
The body of Harvey Keith was found floating in Max Lake. It would have been ruled a suicide but his genitals had been cut off. |
2014-05-17 | 2017-09-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Modern Macbeth Murder Case.
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The Modern Caine and Abel.
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Cain and Abel.
Like the Biblical brothers Cain and Able, the Sawtell brothers took divergent paths through life leading to jealousy and murder. |
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A Gambler Shot Dead.
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Elmer D. Morrill.
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Fanaticism and Murder.
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2014-03-29 | 2014-03-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Land of Undiscovered Murders.
In the 1880s, the state of Connecticut experienced a rash of unrelated, unsolved murders which baffled local constabularies, amazed the nation, and amused neighboring New York City. |
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The Webster Mystery.
Alice Hoyle told several different stories about her sister's dissapearance. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2014-03-15 | 2019-01-09 | Edit | Delete |
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19th Century Serial Killers.
Serial Killers in 19th Century America |
2014-03-08 | 2020-12-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Corn Field Murder.
The murder of Sarah Alexander by Pesach N. Rubenstein |
2014-03-01 | 2018-08-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Verses from Beyond the Grave.
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2014-02-26 | 2014-02-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Harold Schechter's The Mad Sculptor.
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2014-02-19 | 2014-03-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in San Francisco.
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A Boy Shoots His Sweetheart and Himself.
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2014-02-08 | 2014-02-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Kentucky Tragedy.
To Jereboam Beauchamp and Anna Cooke the murder of Solomon Sharp was the stuff or romantic novels. In reality they played out another familiar narrative - two misfits lashing out at the world. |
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Victims of a Mysterious Strangler.
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William D. Sindram.
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Chloroformed to Death.
Myra Kniffin was chloroformed to death. Was it a random burglary or staged to look like one? |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2014-01-04 | 2019-06-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Scenes from the Burdell Murder.
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Murder on Christmas Morning.
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The Notorious Patty Cannon.
“And we can truly say, that we have never seen recorded, a greater instance of moral depravity, so perfectly regardless of every feeling, which should inhabit the human breast.” |
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The Victorian Murderess.
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The Sioux City Saloon Murder.
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Guilty of Murder.
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A Psychological Study.
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The Raven Stream Crime.
Rose Ambler said goodnight to her fiancé at the Raven Stream Bridge, and was never seen alive again. |
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Theodore Baker.
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2013-11-16 | 2014-04-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Did it Mean Murder?
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The Marlow Murder.
William Bachman was last seen alive at Charles Marlow's brewery. Marlow was the prime suspect in Bachman's murder his proecution proved challenging. |
2013-11-02 | 2017-09-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Brooklyn Wife Murder.
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Mabel Smith.
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2013-10-19 | 2013-10-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Another "Bender Family."
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Murderous Clergy.
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Crime and Criminals.
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The Manheim Tragedy.
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Husband Murder.
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Samuel Moore Williams.
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Who Killed Benjamin Nathan?
The murder of Benjamin Nathan is a "locked-room" mystery that remans unsolved. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2013-08-31 | 2026-01-10 | Edit | Delete |
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Murder Will Out.
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Murder! Murder! Murder!!
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Scenes from the Fisk Assassination
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The Boston Belfry Tragedy.
The murder of a 5-yr-old girl in a Boston church led to the capture of a serial killer. |
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The Horrible Murder in Division Street.
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Scenes from Smuttynose.
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A Savage Ruffian!
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2013-07-13 | 2014-12-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Clement Arthur Day.
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2013-07-06 | 2013-07-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Arthur Spring Jr. vs. Arthur Spring Sr.
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2013-06-29 | 2014-02-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Deserved Double Lynching.
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2013-06-22 | 2013-06-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Vanderpool-Field Tragedy.
Herbert Field seemed to attract danger, but nothing he could not overcome until he settled down in Michigan. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2013-06-15 | 2016-08-17 | Edit | Delete |
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James H. Jacobs.
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A Visit to the Tombs.
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2013-06-01 | 2013-06-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Walworth Patricide.
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2013-05-25 | 2014-12-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mrs. Sarah Rhodes.
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2013-05-18 | 2013-05-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Guest Blogger: ExecutedToday.com
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2013-05-11 | 2013-06-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Settling an Old Feud.
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Murder Ballad Lyrics
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The Woman in Black.
Laura Fair and ended her tumultuous affair with Alexander P. Crittenden with a pistol shot to his chest. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2013-04-27 | 2017-11-08 | Edit | Delete |
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Insurance Murders.
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Thomas Riley.
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2013-04-13 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Hart-Meservey Murder.
One of Maine’s great unsolved crimes. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2013-04-06 | 2025-02-08 | Edit | Delete |
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The Murder of Chong Ong.
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2013-03-30 | 2013-04-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Black-McKaig Homicide.
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2013-03-23 | 2013-11-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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William Agnew.
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2013-03-16 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Murdered by a Maniac” </br>Guest Post by James Schmidt
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2013-03-09 | 2013-06-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Massachusetts Borgia.
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2013-03-02 | 2014-12-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Matters in Maine.
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2013-02-23 | 2013-02-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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How to Abolish Murder.
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A Brutal Murder.
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A Contract with the Devil.
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Miss Fails in Court
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2013-02-02 | 2013-02-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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August Hetzke.
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2013-01-26 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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American Murder Ballads
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2013-01-19 | 2013-01-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Polly Williams
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A Triple Murder .
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“…cut off in her youthful bloom”
Behold with pity, you that pass by; Here doth the bones of Polly Williams lie; Who was cut off in her youthful bloom; By a vile wretch, her pretended groom. |
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Three Iowa Murders.
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The Talbotts.
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The Bloody Century 2 | 2013-01-05 | 2013-12-22 | Edit | Delete |
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August Detlaf.
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2012-12-29 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Alabama Lynching.
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2012-12-22 | 2012-12-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Polly Williams
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2012-12-16 | 2012-12-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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A House Divided.
A dispute over a milk pan in the tense Ware household turned mother against daughter, brother against sister, and drove John C. Ware to turn a shotgun on his father. |
2012-12-15 | 2018-12-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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Nels Olsen Holong
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2012-12-08 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murder of Patrick H. Dwyer
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2012-12-01 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Baltimore Sorrow.
Lizzie James’s infatuation with her brother’s best friend resulted in her own death and the murder of her father. |
2012-11-24 | 2019-02-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Brutal Murder in Middletown.
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2012-11-17 | 2012-11-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Serial Murderer in the Regiment?
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2012-11-16 | 2012-11-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Joe Doran.
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2012-11-10 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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"...as though he had shot her.”
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2012-11-03 | 2013-12-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Death in the Family.
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2012-10-27 | 2016-09-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mysteries Cleared Up
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2012-10-20 | 2013-04-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mrs. Martin Steinhauser.
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2012-10-13 | 2013-08-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Matter of Honor.
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2012-10-06 | 2025-01-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Five Surprising Facts about Salem Witchcraft.
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2012-10-04 | 2012-10-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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For Murdering his Mother.
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2012-09-29 | 2012-09-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Oregon Hamilton.
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2012-09-22 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poisoners.
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2012-09-15 | 2016-04-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Lost Miners
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2012-09-08 | 2012-09-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Alfred Packer, Man-eater.
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2012-09-08 | 2013-11-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Cruel Boys Who Become Murderers.
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2012-09-01 | 2012-09-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Mrs. Wm. Huntermark.
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2012-08-25 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Balance of Probabilities.
Priscilla Budge was found in bed with her throat cut. The question of whether the wound was self-inflicted was debated for years. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2012-08-18 | 2018-03-14 | Edit | Delete |
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A Bender Family Album.
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2012-08-11 | 2013-05-31 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Borden Murders, 120 Years Unsolved.
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2012-08-04 | 2012-08-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fire in the Swamp.
The stabbed body of Ann Freese was discovered when her brothel burned to the ground in a section of Rutland, VT known as the swamp. |
2012-07-28 | 2019-06-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Pamphlets.
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2012-07-21 | 2016-10-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Three Wounds - The Rest of the Story.
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2012-07-16 | 2012-07-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Three Wounds.
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2012-07-14 | 2012-07-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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The 50 Best American History Blogs
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2012-07-04 | 2012-07-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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More Murders in Maine.
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2012-06-30 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Saugerties Bard.
The Saugerties Bard roamed the Catskills, singing about death and destruction. |
2012-06-23 | 2019-08-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Dunbar, the Murderer
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2012-06-22 | 2012-06-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Brooklyn Barber.
John Weston withdrew his savings, left Brooklyn, traveled north with his barber, and never returned. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2012-06-16 | 2019-08-28 | Edit | Delete |
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Joseph Sherer.
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2012-06-09 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murders in Maine.
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2012-06-02 | 2012-06-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Love and Law.
The tragic love affair between Charles Kring and Dora Broemser ended in one maddened instant—the prosecution of Charles Kring for the crime of murder lasted eight years. |
2012-05-26 | 2019-01-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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Dan Driscoll.
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2012-05-19 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Car-Hook Tragedy
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The Bloody Century 2 | 2012-05-12 | 2013-12-22 | Edit | Delete |
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Forty Years Suspected of Murder.
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2012-05-05 | 2012-05-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Horror!
The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 12, 1866, bore the single word: “Horror!”. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2012-04-28 | 2019-07-10 | Edit | Delete |
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Joseph Crawford.
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2012-04-21 | 2012-04-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jack-Pot in Alaska
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2012-04-18 | 2012-04-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Our Murderers.
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2012-04-14 | 2012-04-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poor Mary Stannard!
Mary Stannard went out to pick berries and never returned. Rumor said she was seduced and stabbed by the minister of her church. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2012-04-07 | 2018-05-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Confessing an Awful Crime.
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2012-03-31 | 2012-04-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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George Tartar.
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2012-03-24 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Startling Parallelisms.
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2012-03-17 | 2015-04-26 | Edit | Delete |
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51 Murder Mysteries in Two Years
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2012-03-10 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Woman Scorned.
Charles Goodrich lay dead on the basement floor, neatly posed by a loving killer. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2012-03-03 | 2019-01-30 | Edit | Delete |
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Stack O'Lee Blues
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2012-02-25 | 2012-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Decapitation and Dismemberment
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2012-02-25 | 2012-03-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
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2012-02-24 | 2012-02-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Harry Hayward Song
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2012-02-24 | 2012-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Stokes Verdict
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2012-02-24 | 2012-02-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poor Ellen Smith
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2012-02-24 | 2012-02-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Arsenic Tragedy
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2012-02-24 | 2012-02-24 | Edit | Delete |
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Ewing Brooks
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2012-02-24 | 2012-02-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Indiana Hero (aka Fuller and Warren)
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2012-02-24 | 2012-02-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Beautiful Carrie Andrews
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2012-02-18 | 2013-09-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Hunter-Armstrong Tragedy
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2012-02-11 | 2024-05-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hattie Woolsteen.
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2012-02-04 | 2013-10-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Was it Murder?
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2012-01-28 | 2012-01-28 | Edit | Delete | |
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Pearl Bryan II
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2012-01-21 | 2012-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mysteries of Pearl Bryan
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2012-01-21 | 2013-06-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Veiled Murderess.
A black veil obscured the face of Henrietta Robinson as she stood trial for murder. Her true identity was a mystery as well. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2012-01-14 | 2019-09-04 | Edit | Delete |
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Alfred Taylor
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2012-01-07 | 2012-01-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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He Knew Too Much.
William Udderzook’s “plausible stories” of his brother-in-law’s death only fueled the doubts of insurance companies. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2011-12-31 | 2019-03-27 | Edit | Delete |
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A Bloody Christmas Eve
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2011-12-24 | 2012-01-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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Thrown Out the Window.
The body of Mary E. Hill was found lying outside her Philadelphia home, killed in her dining thrown out the second story window. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2011-12-17 | 2017-11-15 | Edit | Delete |
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Cherry Scott
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2011-12-10 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Six Capsules
Helen Potts's dreams ended in deceit, betrayal, and murder. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2011-12-03 | 2019-04-10 | Edit | Delete |
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A Weschseter Tragedy Revived.
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2011-11-26 | 2012-01-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Unfortunate Organization
Phrenology said that Reuben Dunbar had “an unfortunate organization” in which his moral faculties were not sufficiently large to balance his animal propensities. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2011-11-19 | 2019-10-23 | Edit | Delete |
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Murder by Candlelight
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2011-11-12 | 2013-09-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Thomas A. Reese.
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2011-11-05 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Haunting Homicides
The nineteenth century was a golden age of spiritualism, so it’s not surprising that many murder stories from the 1800s have accompanying ghost stories. |
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Lydia Sherman
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2011-10-15 | 2012-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Deed to Make Mankind Shudder.
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2011-10-15 | 2011-10-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Guest Blogger: Anthony Vaver of Early American Crime
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2011-10-08 | 2011-10-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Barclay Peakes
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2011-10-01 | 2013-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Becker Tells All
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2011-09-24 | 2011-10-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Indiana Hero
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2011-09-17 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Guest Blogger: ExecutedToday
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2011-09-10 | 2011-09-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Boston Barrel Tragedy
In 1872, the dismembered body of Abijah Ellis was found stuffed inside two barrels floating in the Charles River. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2011-09-03 | 2017-08-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Is Holmes Hatch?
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2011-08-27 | 2011-09-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Sheriff’s Mistress
Everything was going George Swearingen’s way; then he met Rachel Cunningham. |
2011-08-20 | 2019-05-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Edward Hovey
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2011-08-13 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Great Trunk Mystery
An unidentified corpse was found in a trunk left at a Manhattan railroad depot. |
2011-08-06 | 2018-10-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder Most Foul
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2011-07-30 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Fillipe Guestoni
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2011-07-23 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Guest Blogger: Cheri Farnsworth
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2011-07-16 | 2011-07-23 | Edit | Delete | |
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Duel Day
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2011-07-12 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Bill the Ripper
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2011-07-09 | 2011-07-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Ebenezer Stanyard
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2011-07-02 | 2011-07-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Exoneration of John Gordon
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2011-07-01 | 2012-01-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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An Ungrateful Fiend
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2011-06-25 | 2011-06-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Grizzly Bear Tragedy
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2011-06-20 | 2011-06-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hong Di
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2011-06-18 | 2011-06-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Trial & Conviction of Richard Johnson
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2011-06-11 | 2024-08-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Terrible Tragedy in New Jersey
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2011-06-04 | 2011-06-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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Van B. Baker
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2011-05-28 | 2011-09-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Another Unsolved Axe Murder
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2011-05-24 | 2011-05-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Mournful and Pathetic Ballad on the Murder of John Love
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2011-05-21 | 2012-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Thayer Brothers
In June, 1825, at least 20,000 witnesses gathered in Buffalo's Niagara Square to watch thee brothers hang from the same gallows. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-05-21 | 2018-05-23 | Edit | Delete |
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The Confession of Manuel P. Garcia
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2011-05-14 | 2011-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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Guest Blogger: Elizabeth Kerri Mahon of Scandalous Women
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2011-05-07 | 2011-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Graham Tragedy.
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2011-04-30 | 2025-10-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Druse Butchery
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-04-23 | 2016-02-13 | Edit | Delete |
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"Handsome Harry" Carlton
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2011-04-16 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in the Vale of Tempe
When Christie Warden did not return George Abbot’s love, he took it at gunpoint in the shady hollow known as the Vale of Tempe. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-04-10 | 2017-12-27 | Edit | Delete |
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The Meeks Family Murder
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-04-02 | 2024-11-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Shocking Tragedy in Gratiot County
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2011-03-26 | 2011-03-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Found Drifting with the Tide
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-03-19 | 2014-12-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Two Murder Ballads and a Suicide Ballad
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2011-03-14 | 2011-03-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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Emma Davis
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2011-03-12 | 2011-03-12 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bond Street Tragedy
After Dr. Harvey Burdell was found in his office strangled and stabbed fifteen times, 31 Bond Street was shown for what it was—a hotbed of greed, lust, intrigue and depravity. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-03-05 | 2016-04-24 | Edit | Delete |
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William Showers
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2011-02-26 | 2013-10-19 | Edit | Delete | |
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Vamp of New Orleans
Minnie Wallace Walkup attracted rich middle-aged men who would die mysteriously. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-02-19 | 2017-11-22 | Edit | Delete |
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Early American Crime
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2011-02-16 | 2011-02-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The National Night Stick
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2011-02-15 | 2011-02-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Three Little Murders
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2011-02-12 | 2011-02-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Defenders and Offenders
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2011-02-09 | 2011-02-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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The St. Louis Trunk Tragedy
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-02-05 | 2018-07-18 | Edit | Delete |
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The Confession of Manuel P. Garcia
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2011-01-29 | 2011-05-14 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Murdered Wife.
On February 10, 1845 Henry Green married Mary Ann Wyatt, eight days later she was dead from arsenic poisoning. There is little doubt Henry Green murdered his wife but his motive in doing so is an enduring mystery. |
2011-01-22 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murders and Daring Outrages
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2011-01-18 | 2013-09-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Sleepwalking Defense
Albert Tirrell killed Maria Bickford while sleepwalking and he had a good lawyer. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2011-01-15 | 2018-05-09 | Edit | Delete |
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Arsenic and Old Lace
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2011-01-12 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Little Murders
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2011-01-08 | 2011-01-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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A Crime of Passion
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The Bloody Century 2 | 2011-01-01 | 2013-11-22 | Edit | Delete |
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Christmas Murders
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2010-12-24 | 2012-02-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lizzie Borden's Confession
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2010-12-18 | 2014-07-05 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Manhattan Well Mystery
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2010-12-12 | 2013-11-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Kissing Cousins
When Lillian Madison’s body, eight months pregnant, was found floating in Richmond’s Old Reservoir, Cousin Thomas was the prime suspect. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2010-12-04 | 2019-10-30 | Edit | Delete |
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Murderous New York
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2010-11-27 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Minister and the Mill Girl
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2010-11-21 | 2014-12-06 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jack the Ripper: The Prime Suspect
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2010-11-18 | 2011-01-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Killing of Bill The Butcher
Bill “The Butcher” Poole was a champion pugilist in 1855 but when the fighters turned to knives and guns, all pretext of sport was gone. |
2010-11-13 | 2019-08-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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Abby Borden Crime Scene
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2010-11-10 | 2010-11-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder
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2010-11-07 | 2010-11-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Bloody Benders
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-11-06 | 2018-09-05 | Edit | Delete |
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Devil on the Silver Screen
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2010-11-03 | 2010-11-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder In Sylvania, Ohio
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2010-10-30 | 2010-10-30 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lizbeth
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2010-10-27 | 2010-10-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Big Harpe and Little Harpe
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2010-10-24 | 2013-09-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder in Little Italy
Maria Barbella would be the first woman sentenced to die in New York’s newly installed electric chair. |
2010-10-17 | 2018-08-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Axe Murder
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2010-10-09 | 2014-06-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Legend of Lavinia Fisher
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2010-10-01 | 2013-09-02 | Edit | Delete | |
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Murder and Mayhem in St. Lawrence County
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2010-09-19 | 2010-09-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Tanyard Murder
The murder of Herman Shilling was one of Cincinnati’s most gruesome. |
2010-09-18 | 2019-09-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Antoine Le Blanc
Realizing he would not make his fortune by hatd work, Antoine Le Blanc robbed and murdered his employers, the Sayre family. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2010-09-10 | 2019-09-11 | Edit | Delete |
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"Unprepared to Die" - American Murder Ballads
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2010-09-04 | 2012-02-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Lambeth Poisoner
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2010-08-29 | 2013-12-10 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Virtual Dime Museum
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2010-08-25 | 2010-08-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Man of Two Lives.
Edward Rulloff was a man of great intellect; he was also a thief, swindler, and murderer. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-08-21 | 2021-07-30 | Edit | Delete |
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The Fatal Bowl of Soup
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2010-08-14 | 2013-02-04 | Edit | Delete | |
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Who was the first American serial killer?
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2010-08-11 | 2010-12-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jesse Pomeroy - "Boston Boy Fiend"
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-08-07 | 2014-12-06 | Edit | Delete |
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The Prophet Matthias
The Prophet Mathias, self-proclaimed Spirit of Truth, controlled the lives of his followers. Did he also control their deaths? |
2010-07-31 | 2019-07-24 | Edit | Delete | |
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Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective
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2010-07-27 | 2010-11-21 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Great Sheedy Murder Case.
John Sheedy was a powerful man with enemies on both sides of the law but his tumultuous marriage caused his demise. |
2010-07-24 | 2019-04-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Rhode Island Inequity
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-07-17 | 2023-05-17 | Edit | Delete |
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A Rash of Murders
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2010-07-14 | 2010-07-16 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy
Daniel McFarland shot Albert Richardson but McFarland’s murder trial focused on his wife’s adultery. |
2010-07-10 | 2018-02-07 | Edit | Delete | |
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Poor Ellen Smith.
Ellen Smith’s murder is a classic tale of seduction and betrayal, the stuff of Victorian cautionary literature and mountain murder ballads. |
2010-07-03 | 2019-07-17 | Edit | Delete | |
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Clan-na-Gael and the Murder of Dr. Cronin.
After accusing leaders of Clan-na-Gael of embezzlement, Dr. Cronin was found murdered. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-06-26 | 2018-07-25 | Edit | Delete |
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False Witness - The Lucy Pollard Murder
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2010-06-19 | 2013-11-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Albany Gothic
Tranquility at Cherry Hill mansion was fatally disrupted when Elsie Lansing and Jesse Strang failed to observe the distinction between upstairs and downstairs. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-06-12 | 2018-04-18 | Edit | Delete |
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YesterYear Once More
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2010-06-08 | 2010-06-08 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jubilee Jim
When Jim Fisk was betrayed by his mistress, Josie Mansfield and his good friend Edward Stokes, it became an epic scandal filled with blackmail, courtroom drama, and finally murder. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-06-05 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete |
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The Blue Eyed Six
Six murder-for-insurance conspirators had one feature in common—they all had blue eyes. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2010-05-22 | 2019-07-03 | Edit | Delete |
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The Minneapolis Svengali.
Harry Hayward, handsome playboy and conman was thought to have hypnotic powers. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2010-05-22 | 2026-02-21 | Edit | Delete |
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The Nicely Brothers.
Brothers Joe and Dave Nicely were the prime suspects in the robbery and murder of Herman Umberger in his home in Jennertown, Pennsylvania on February 27, 1889. They were arrested, identified by eye witnesses, convicted and condemned to death. But the Nicelys maintained their innocence and tried every means possible—legal and otherwise— to avoid punishment, including: two legal appeals, two pardon board appearances, a direct appeal to the governor, two jailbreaks, conspiracy to suborn witnesses, framing of other suspects, and feigning insanity. None of it worked. |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2010-05-22 | 2010-05-22 | Edit | Delete |
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The Knoxville Girl
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2010-05-09 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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"Mary Bean" - The Factory Girl
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2010-05-08 | 2013-11-20 | Edit | Delete | |
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Carrie Brown: Jack the Ripper in America-Part 2
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-05-01 | 2021-06-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Visible Proofs
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2010-04-24 | 2012-09-18 | Edit | Delete | |
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OK Corral
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2010-04-22 | 2010-04-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Did Frankie Silver murder her sleeping husband in cold blood, or was it a desperate fight to save her own life? |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-04-17 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete |
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The Dead Alive
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2010-04-11 | 2013-11-22 | Edit | Delete | |
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Jack the Ripper in America?
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2010-04-03 | 2013-09-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Corpse in the Shipping Crate
A crate left at the docs in New York City was opened revealing a decomposing human corpse. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-03-28 | 2018-04-25 | Edit | Delete |
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Two Short Songs
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2010-03-21 | 2010-04-03 | Edit | Delete | |
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Frankie Baker - "He Done Her Wrong"
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-03-21 | 2014-11-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Delia's Gone, One More Round
On Christmas Eve 1900, Cooney Houston shot and killed Delia Green. If that isn’t tragic enough, they were both 14 years old. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-03-21 | 2019-03-03 | Edit | Delete |
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Dr. George Parkman - "The Pedestrian"
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-03-13 | 2014-11-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Concerning the Death of Ella Speed
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2010-03-11 | 2010-03-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Been on the Job Too Long
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2010-03-11 | 2010-03-11 | Edit | Delete | |
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Rogue's Gallery / Victim's Memorial
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2010-03-06 | 2013-06-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Josie Langmaid-"The Murdered Maiden Student"
17-year-old Josie Langmaid was raped, murdered and decapitated on her way to school. |
2010-02-21 | 2019-05-01 | Edit | Delete | |
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Bloody Woolfolk
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-02-14 | 2014-11-26 | Edit | Delete |
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The Cuban Con Artist.
Dr. William Chapman and his wife Lucretia invited Lino Espos y Mina into thier home. Within two months William was dead and Lucretia was Lino's wife. Was Lucretia Chapman an accomplice to murder or another victim of the Cuban con artist? |
The Bloody Century 2 | 2010-02-06 | 2017-12-06 | Edit | Delete |
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Did Lizzie Do it?
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2010-01-31 | 2010-04-13 | Edit | Delete | |
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Hang Down Your Head Tom Dula
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-01-23 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete |
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"Girl Slays Girl."
Alice Mitchel, age 19, slashed her close friend Freda Mitchel, age 17, with a straight razor. Was she driven by insanity, jealousy, or “an unnatural love?” |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2010-01-16 | 2021-05-28 | Edit | Delete |
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William Morgan - Revenge of the Freemasons
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2010-01-10 | 2013-09-15 | Edit | Delete | |
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Test
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2010-01-01 | 2010-01-27 | Edit | Delete | |
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Zona Heaster Shue - The Greenbrier Ghost
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2009-12-27 | 2013-11-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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The Smuttynose Murders
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-12-19 | 2014-11-26 | Edit | Delete |
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The Shooting of Diamond Bessie
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2009-12-12 | 2013-12-09 | Edit | Delete | |
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Theo Durrant - The Demon of the Belfry
When two women were found murdered and mutilated in the church steeple, an innocent Sunday school teacher was recast as “The Demon of the Belfrey.” |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-12-06 | 2018-01-10 | Edit | Delete |
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The Sausage Vat Murder.
Police belived that Adolph Luetgert, “Sausage King” of Chicago, murdered his wife, but what had he done with her body? |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-20 | 2018-02-14 | Edit | Delete |
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Helen Jewett - The Girl in Green
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2009-11-19 | 2014-11-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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"A Most Extraordinary Case."
The conspiracy to murder Capt. Joseph White, instigated by his two nephews was prosecuted by Daniel Webster. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-18 | 2021-10-05 | Edit | Delete |
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Dan Sickles's Temporary Insanity
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-10 | 2014-11-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Welcome to Murder by Gaslight
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2009-11-02 | 2021-04-29 | Edit | Delete | |
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H. H. Holmes - "I was born with the devil in me."
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-02 | 2019-03-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Poor 'Omie - The Murder of Naomi Wise
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-02 | 2018-08-26 | Edit | Delete |
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Mary Rogers, the Beautiful Cigar Girl
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2009-11-02 | 2019-03-26 | Edit | Delete | |
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That Bad Man Stagolee
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The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-02 | 2019-03-16 | Edit | Delete |
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Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...Or Did She?
Either Lizzie Borden got away with murder or someone else did. Lizzie was acquitted of the axe murder of Andrew and Abby Borden and no one else was ever arrested. The Borden murder case has been cold for over a hundred years yet criminologist - professional and amateur - continue to pore over newspaper accounts, police reports, and trial transcripts looking for the real killer. There have been many theories, but the case remains unsolved. |
The Bloody Century 1 | 2009-11-02 | 2009-11-02 | Edit | Delete |
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Coming Soon: John G. Van Nest
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2009-10-02 | 2010-02-25 | Edit | Delete | |
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Coming Soon: Alice Meaker
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Coming Soon: Christie Warden
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