( 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, 18...

(New York Journal , March 18, 1898.) When the news of London’s 1888 Whitechapel Murders, attributed to “Jack the Ripper,” crossed the Atlan...

National Police Gazette , January 28, 1882 Mrs. J.W. Gibbons was away from her home in Ashland, Kentucky, on December 23, 1881. She left beh...

Maggie Crowley ( New York American , March 16, 1898) Robert Hoey, coming home from work in the early hours of March 15, 1898, literally trip...

About half past three, the morning of July 2, 1863, a young man on his way to work in Medina, Ohio, saw the home of Shubal Coy in flames. He...

( Boston Post , March 29, 1897,) Walter R. Debbins was shot twice in the back, in broad daylight, on Highland Street in Medford, Massachuset...

The Murder of Lizzie Anderson Josie Fay was standing at the corner of Bowker and Sudbury Streets in Boston’s West End, on the evening of Jan...

  Harry and Catherine. ( Harry Hayward: Life, crimes, dying confession and execution of the Celebrated Minneapolis Criminal .) Harry Hayward...

A group of young boys from Lambertville, New Jersey, went skating on Island Creek on December 15, 1880. They brought their lunches and, when...

  ("On Trial for Murder," Daily Inter Ocean , November 27, 1895.) During a time of conflict between the Shanks family and the Kell...

 So far From Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder - Amazon , Audible .

Mrs. Carrie Farrel left her home in Sibley, Iowa, at 7:00 a.m. on May 6, 1889. She went on horseback to visit her parents, who lived about t...

  James E. Eldredge and Sarah Jane Gould. (The Trial of James E Eldredge  ) James E. Eldredge left his home in Canton, New York in the sprin...

Lourens Signourette and his wife lived near Foster’s Bar, a remote camp in the Yubas Foot Hills in California. Lourens had been ailing for q...

Harper's Weekly , August 20, 1870. Benjamin Nathan, a wealthy stockbroker and philanthropist, was found brutally beaten to death in his...

At around 6:30, the morning of February 4, 1877, the residents of Crosby Street in New York City were alarmed by a woman’s shriek. Many were...

Frank Almy and Christie Warden. (Life, Trial, and Confession of Frank C. Almy , Laconia, N.H.: J.J. Lane, 1891.) While working as a farmhand...

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...