Dr. John W. Hughes was a restless, intemperate man whose life never ran smoothly. When his home life turned sour, he found love with a woman...

A boatman working near the foot of Little Street in Brooklyn, on October 3, 1864, saw a package floating on the water. Thinking it might con...

Benjamin and Mary Merrill lived with their four-year-old son on Illinois Street in Chicago, where they ran a boarding house. During the day,...

Joseph Blair of Montclair, New Jersey, had a vicious argument with his coachman, John Armstrong, on June 26, 1879. Blair was angry that some...

When the press learned that Lydia Sherman had poisoned three husbands and eight children, they called her “The Arch Murderess of Connecticut...

  A young woman entered the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of January 30, 1865. She went to the office of the Comptr...

Illustrated Police News , February 28, 1885. Joseph Crue returned from work to his home in Groton, Massachusetts, on January 18, 1880, and f...

  Bertha Levy entered the house at 111 Prince Street, Manhattan, just before 10:00 a.m. on January 18, 1880. She was a hairdresser, and sh...

In 2014, Murder by Gaslight posted Unsolved , a collection of 19 th -century murders that had never been fully explained. The list inclu...

Around 3:00, on the afternoon of June 15, 1886, a bellboy heard gunshots while responding to a prolonged ring from room 25 on the second flo...

James Fisk Jr. was a robber baron, stock manipu...

As Police Officers Henry Johnson and Eli Veazie were leaving the Chelsea, Massachusetts City Marshal’s office on the evening of February 17,...

National Police Gazette , December 29, 1888. Franklin Asbury Hawkins murdered his mother on October 29, 1887, and dumped her body, beaten an...

Police Officers Farson and Conway were patrolling the neighborhood of Orleans and Washinton Streets in Memphis, Tennessee, on the night of A...

National Police Gazette , June 1, 1889. On May 12, 1889, the janitor of the Clifton Boat Club on Staten Island found the body of a young wom...

Two days after her disappearance, search parties formed to look for any trace of Emma between Hill’s Grove and Pontiac. They focused on...

  An Illustrated Encyclopedia: The 1891 Murder Of Carrie Brown , a new book by Howard and Nina Brown of JTRForums.com , is a comprehensive s...

  Mary Barrows and Oscar Blaney. Illustrated Police News , May 9, 1885, In 1883, Mary Barrows of Kittery, Maine, persuaded her son-in-law, O...

  A driverless horse and wagon wandered aimlessly in the prairie between Fort Gibson and Tahlequah in Indian Territory on December 3, 1883. ...

National Police Gazette , January 14, 1882. In January 1882, Kitty Mulcahey was jailed in St. Louis for the murder of Alfred Tonkin. Kitty w...