Mary Anderson was an acclaimed international stage actress in the late 1800s. Among her many fans was a young Brooklyn man named James M. Do...

  A Song Written in Memory of The St. George Murder. (excerpt) In St. George, Me., as you shall hear, It proves to be the fatal year - Tha...

One Week Only! On sale for 99 cents! So Far  from Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder "Yes. they drove far from the...

( Illustrated Police News , February 1, 1885) On Thursday, July 27, 1882, Sarah Proctor, of Salem, Massachusetts, heard groans coming from t...

Sadie and Clarence. In April 1894, the murder of Montgomery Gibbs, a successful attorney, caused great excitement in Buffalo, New York. He w...

  When John Keys and Eva Dickenson were married in Cincinnati on August 21, 1890, they told their relatives that they planned to honeymoon o...

(Illustrated Police News, April 3, 1886.) Agnes Anastasia Long moved out of her parents’ home in East Attleboro, Massachusetts, in April 188...

  Ida Quinlan and Sophia Grant. Mrs. Ida Quinlan went out to buy a pair of stockings at around 9:00 on the night of February 1, 1896, leavin...

Daniel Sickles,  Teresa Bagioli,  Phillip Key In 1859, Dan Sickles, a congressman from New York (and future Union General), was married to t...

Illustrated Police News, February 8, 1879 . O.P. Hull, a well-to-do farmer, lived with his wife and six children near the village of Wasson...

 Howard and Nina Brown are frequent contributors to  Murder by Gaslight , on matters pertaining to the 1891 murder of Carrie Brown , viewe...

James Lattin and Ellen Lucas. ( Daily Graphic , November 20, 1874.) Ellen Lucas of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was to be married on October...

( Philadelphia Inquirer , April 29, 1895.) Johanna Gahan married Jimmy Logue, a professional thief, in 1871, just as he was preparing to ser...

The Confession of Mary Cole, 1813 . Cornelius and Mary Cole lived in a farmhouse in Sussex County, New Jersey, with their two children and M...

( New Haven Independent ) Taylor Ward sings "Found Drifting with th...

  Charles Kaiser conspired with Lizzie DeKalb to murder his wife for insurance. When the plot was uncovered and the murderers tried, both cl...

  In 1863, Theodore B. Weber, then a businessman in Burlington, Iowa, was attracted to Mrs. Adelaide (Ada) Bennert, a woman sixteen years hi...

  Stephen Pettus gave Hannah Southworth a glass of drugged champagne and had his way with her while she was unconscious. Hannah became pregn...

In 1830, Joseph Knapp conspired with his brother, John Francis Knapp, to hire a local criminal, Richard Crowninshield, to murder their great...

Strangler Suspect, Jacob Tolker ( New York Journal , May 14, 1897) Eight women were strangled—seven fatally— on Manhattan’s East Side, betwe...