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...

Kate Scharn. ( New York American , August 20, 1900.) It had been more than two years since a murder was reported in New York City’s East Sid...

Maggie Crowley. ( New York Journal, March 16, 1898.) On March 15, 1898, a woman was found strangled to death in the courtyard of a New York...

"Diamond Flossie" Murphy. (New York Journal, March 18, 1898.) Flossie Murphy was a flamboyant character, notorious in the demi-mon...

( New York Evening Journal , March 18, 1898) Around 1 a.m. on September 2, 1896, Samuel Meyers ran out of the tenement at 202 East 29 th St...

( New York Journa l, August 5, 1896) Annie Bock and her husband, Jacob, were spending the summer at Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York. On S...

( New York Journal , May 31, 1896.) On the morning of Memorial Day, May 30, 1896, Mrs. Annie Cunningham had to go to work, while her 13-year...

(New York Evening Journal , March 18, 1898.) Helen Kahlert, a washerwoman, came home from work at 8:00 on the evening of Wednesday, May 30, ...