Murder never pauses for Christmas; it is all too often an unwelcome guest at Yuletide parties. Here are a few murderous nineteenth-century A...

  Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, “The Lambeth Poisoner” and possible Jack the Ripper suspect, was hanged at Newgate Prison in London on November 15...

On the afternoon of November 27, 1874, Aaron P Barnes went, with his business assistant, John W. Ganie, to a lodging house Barnes owned on G...

( National Police Gazette , November 20, 1881.) After less than two years of marriage in Iowa City, Iowa, Lizzie Stein filed for divorce fro...

The Pearl Bryan Murder ...

Henry Provenchia (sometimes spelled “Provencher”) met Lizzie Hutchins in 1890 at a dance in Somersworth, New Hampshire. Three weeks later, t...

Charles Arthur Preller and Hugh Mottram Brooks ( Illustrated Police News , April 25 & May 2, 1885) Charles Arthur Preller and Hugh Mottr...

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On December 30, 1865, Francis McGaghay noticed that the coal stove in his apartment at 597 Grand Street in New York City was not drawing wel...

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper , June 8, 1889. Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin was a prominent Chicago physician and a member of Clan-na-...

18-year-old Lizzie McDaniels was walking home from a wedding party in Cherokee Flat, California, at around 4:00 am on June 1, 1871. Two comp...

Captain McGregor of the No. 8 Engine Company on Fifth Street in Baltimore saw a woman come out of the house across the street and collapse o...

Emma Malloy and George E. Graham Illustrated Police News , April 17, 1886 & May 15, 1886. Famous Evangelist, temperance leader, author, ...

On the afternoon of November 25, 1869, Daniel McFarland walked into the office of the New York Tribune and there shot and killed Albert Ri...

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,  March 28, 1868. Robert Sprague, a normally peaceful man, was spending a quiet evening with his fa...

 "The verdict of the coroner’s jury charges that Mrs. Druse shot her husband with a revolver, struck him with an axe upon the head, and...

Artificial Intelligence would be an excellent tool for historical research, but for one flaw – it does not distinguish between fact and gues...

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Around 1:30 a.m. on February 5, 1881, police were summoned to 109 Poplar Street in St. Louis to investigate gunshots. Inside, they found a s...