In 1830, Joseph Knapp conspired with his brother, John Francis Knapp, to hire a local criminal, Richard Crowninshield, to murder their great uncle, Captain Joseph White, in Salem, Massachusetts. They believed that if the captain died without a will, they stood to inherit a sizable fortune.
Read the full story here: "A Most Extraordinary Case"
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1 comments :
June 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
This was clearly not a well thought out or planned murder. At least the culprits were caught and suffered the consequences.
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