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Victim | Accused | State | Year | Post |
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Brown, Carrie | Ali, Ameer Ben | New York | 1891 | Carrie Brown: Jack the Ripper in America, Part 2 |
Pollard, Lucy Jane | Abernathy, Barnes, Barnes, Marable | Virginia | 1895 | False Witness, the Lucy Pollard Murder |
Warren, Palmer | Fuller, Amasa | Indiana | 1820 | The Indiana Hero |
Ellis, Abijah | Alley, Leavitt | Massachusetts | 1872 | The Boston Barrel Tragedy |
Swearingen, Mary Scot | Swearingen, George | Maryland | 1828 | The Sheriff’s Mistress |
Bowlsby, Alice A. | Rosenzweig, Jacob | New York | 1871 | The Great Trunk Mystery |
Love, John | Thayer Brothers | New York | 1824 | The Thayer Brothers |
Graham, Sarah H. | Graham, George E. | Missouri | 1885 | The Graham Tragedy |
Druse, William | Druse, Roxalana | New York | 1884 | The Druse Butchery |
Warden, Christie | Almy, Frank | New Hampshire | 1891 | Murder in the Vale of Tempe |
Meeks Family | Taylor Brothers | Missouri | 1894 | The Meeks Family Murder |
Cramer, Jennie | Malley, Malley,Douglas | Connecticut | 1881 | Found Drifting with the Tide |
Burdell, Harvey | Cunningham, Emma | New York | 1857 | The Bond Street Tragedy |
Walkup, James Reeves | Walkup, Minnie Wallace | Kansas | 1885 | Vamp of New Orleans |
Preller, Charles Arthur | Brooks, Hugh Mottram | Missouri | 1885 | The St. Louis Trunk Tragedy |
Green, Mary Anne Wyatt | Green, Henry G. | New York | 1845 | The Murdered Wife |
Bickford, Maria A. | Tirrell, Albert J. | Massachusetts | 1845 | The Sleepwalking Defense |
Hamilton, Mary W. | Clough, Joel | New Jersey | 1833 | A Crime of Passion |
Sands, Gulielma | Weeks, Levi | New York | 1799 | The Manhattan Well Mystery |
Madison, Fannie Lillian | Cluverius, Thomas Judson | Virginia | 1885 | Kissing Cousins |
Cornell, Sarah Maria | Avery, Ephraim Kingsbury | Rhode Island | 1832 | The Minister and the Mill Girl |
Poole, Bill "The Butcher" | Baker, Morrissey, et. Al. | New York | 1855 | The Killing of Bill The Butcher |
York, William & 9 others | Bender Family | Kansas | 1870 | The Bloody Benders |
25-40 people | Harpe Brothers | Tennessee, Kentucky | 1798 | Big Harpe and Little Harpe |
Cataldo, Domenico | Barbella, Maria | New York | 1895 | Murder in Little Italy |
Fisher, Lavinia | South Carolina | 1819 | The Legend of Lavinia Fisher | |
Schiller, Herman | Egner, Egner, Rufer | Ohio | 1874 | The Tanyard Murder |
Sayer Family | Le Blanc, Antoine | New Jersey | 1833 | Antoine Le Blanc |
Stott, Daniel & 4 others | Cream, Thomas Neill | Illinois | 1881 | The Lambeth Poisoner |
Merrick, Fred A. | Rulloff, Edward H. | New York | 1870 | The Man of Two Lives |
Curran, Katie & Millen, Horace | Pomeroy, Jesse Harding | Massachusetts | 1874 | Jesse Pomeroy - "Boston Boy Fiend" |
Pierson, Elija | Mathews, Robert | New York | 1834 | The Prophet Matthias |
Sheedy, John | McFarland, William & Sheedy, Mary | Nebraska | 1891 | The Great Sheedy Murder Case |
Sprague, Amasa | Gordon Brothers | Rhode Island | 1843 | Rhode Island Inequity |
Richardson, Albert Deane | McFarland, Daniel | New York | 1869 | The Richardson-McFarland Tragedy |
Smith, Ellen | DeGraff, Peter | North Carolina | 1892 | Poor Ellen Smith |
Cronin, Patrick Henry | Clan-na-Gael | Illinois | 1889 | Clan-na-Gael and the Murder of Dr. Cronin |
Whipple, John | Strang, Jesse | New York | 1827 | Albany Gothic |
Fisk, Jim | Stokes, Edward S. | New York | 1872 | Jubilee Jim |
Raber, Joseph | Blue Eyed Six | Pennsylvania | 1878 | The Blue Eyed Six |
Ging, Catherine M. | Haward, Harry & Blixt, Claus | Minnesota | 1894 | The Minneapolis Svengali |
Noel, Mary Lula | Simmons, William | Missouri | 1892 | The Knoxville Girl |
Caswell, Berengera | Smith, James Harvey | Maine | 1849 | Mary Bean - The Factory Girl |
Silver, Charles | Silver, Frankie Stewart | North Carolina | 1831 | The Ballad of Frankie Silver |
Colvin, Russell | Boorn Brothers | Vermont | 1812 | The Dead Alive |
Adams, Samuel | Colt, John C. | New York | 1841 | The Corpse in the Shipping Crate |
Britt, Allen | Baker, Frankie | Missouri | 1899 | Frankie Baker - "He Done Her Wrong" |
Green, Delia | Houston, Moses | Georgia | 1900 | Delia's Gone, One More Round |
Parkman, George | Webster, John White | Massachusetts | 1849 | Dr. George Parkman - "The Pedestrian" |
Langmaid, Josie A. | Lapage, Joseph | New Hampshire | 1875 | Josie Langmaid-"The Murdered Maiden Student" |
Woolfolk Family | Woolfolk, Tom | Georgia | 1887 | Bloody Woolfolk |
Chapman, William | Chapman, Lucretia & Mina, Carolino | Pennsylvania | 1831 | Lucretia Chapman and the Cuban Con Artist |
Foster, Laura | Dula, Tom | North Carolina | 1866 | Hang Down Your Head Tom Dula |
Ward, Freda | Mitchell, Alice | Tennessee | 1892 | Freda Ward - "Girl Slays Girl" |
Morgan, William | Freemasons | New York | 1826 | William Morgan - Revenge of the Freemasons |
Shue, Zona Heaster | Shue, Trout | West Virginia | 1897 | Zona Heaster Shue - The Greenbrier Ghost |
Chritensen, Anethe & Christensen, Karen | Wagner, Louis | New Hampshire | 1873 | The Smuttynose Murders |
Rothchild, Annie (Diamond Bessie) | Rothchild, Abe | Texas | 1877 | The Shooting of Diamond Bessie |
Lamont, Blanche & Williams, Minnie | Durrand, Theodore | California | 1895 | Theo Durrant - The Demon of the Belfry |
Leutgert, Louise | Leutgert, Adolph | Illinois | 1897 | Louise Luetgert - The Sausage Vat Murder |
Jewett, Helen | Robinson, Richard P. | New York | 1836 | Helen Jewett - The Girl in Green |
White, Joseph | Crowninshield, Knapp, Knapp | Massachusetts | 1830 | Captain Joseph White-A Most Extraordinary Case |
Key, Philip Barton | Sickles, Daniel Edgar | Washington, D.C. | 1859 | Dan Sickles's Temporary Insanity |
Borden, Andrew & Abby | Borden, Lizzie Andrew | Massachusetts | 1892 | Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...Or Did She? |
Pitezel, Benjamin & others | Holmes, Henry Howard | Illinois | 1894 | H. H. Holmes - "I was born with the devil in me." |
Wise, Naomi | Lewis, Jonathan | North Carolina | 1807 | Poor 'Omie - The Murder of Naomi Wise |
Rogers, Mary Cecilia | Payne, Daniel et al | New Jersey | 1841 | Mary Rogers, the Beautiful Cigar Girl |
Lyons, William | Shelton, "Stack" Lee | Missouri | 1895 | That Bad Man Stagolee |
Sherman, Horatio et al | Sherman, Lydia | Connecticut, New York | 1864 | The Poison Fiend |
Lester, David & Stephen | Dunbar, Reuben | New York | 1850 | An Unfortunate Organization |
Harris, Helen Potts | Harris, Carlyle W. | New York | 1850 | The Six Capsules |
Hill, Mary E. | Twitchell, George S. | Pennsylvania | 1891 | Cheating the Gallows |
Goss, Winfield Scott | Udderzook, William | Pennsylvania | 1873 | He Knew Too Much |
Lanagan, Timothy & Lubee, Catherine | Robinson, Henrietta | New York | 1853 | The Veiled Murderess |
Bryan, Pearl | Jackson, Scott & Walling, Alonzo | Kentucky | 1896 | The Mysteries of Pearl Bryan |
Armstrong, John M. | Hunter, Benjamin F. | New Jersey | 1878 | The Hunter-Armstrong Tragedy |
Andrews, Carrie L. | Jansen, Walter | Massachusetts | 1894 | The Beautiful Carrie Andrews |
Goodrich, Charles | King, Lizzie (alias Kate Stoddard) | New York | 1873 | A Woman Scorned |
Manchester, Bertha M. | deMello, Jose Correa | Massachusetts | 1893 | Startling Parallelisms. |
Stannard, Mary E. | Hayden, Rev. Herbert H. | Connecticut | 1873 | Poor Mary Stannard! |
Putnam, Avery D. | Foster, William | New York | 1871 | The Car-Hook Tragedy |
Broemser, Mrs. Dora C. J. | Kring, Charles | Missouri | 1874 | Love and Law. |
Deering Family | Probst, Antoine | Pennsylvania | 1866 | Horror! |
Weston, John D. | Lowenstein, Emil | New York | 1873 | The Brooklyn Barber |
Watson, George W. | Hyde, Fanny Windley | New York | 1872 | A Weight of Grief. |
Freese, Ann E. | Phair, John | Vermont | 1874 | Fire in the Swamp. |
Budge, Pricilla | Budge, Rev. Henry | New York | 1859 | A Balance of Probabilities. |
Swan, Israel & 4 others | Packer,Alfred G. | Colorado | 1874 | Alfred Packer, Man-eater. |
Nutt, Captain A. C. | Dukes, Nicholas L. | Pennsylvania | 1882 | A Matter of Honor. |
Dukes, Nicholas L. | Nutt, James | Pennsylvania | 1883 | A Matter of Honor. |
James, Isaac | Hind, Denwood & Harry | Maryland | 1879 | The Baltimore Sorrow. |
Ware, John A. | Ware, John C. | New Jersey | 1870 | A House Divided. |
Talbott, Dr. Perry H. | Talbot, Albert & Charles | Missouri | 1880 | The Talbots. |
Williams, Mary (Polly) | Rogers, Philip | Pennsylvania | 1810 | "...cut off in her youthful bloom" |
Stickney, Joseph A. | Kelley, Joseph E. | New Hampshire | 1897 | A Contract with the Devil. |
8 People | Robinson, Sarah Jane | Massachusetts | 1886 | The Massachusetts Borgia. |
McKaig, WilliamW. Jr. | Black, Harry Crawford | Maryland | 1870 | The Black-McKaig Homicide. |
Meservey, Sarah | Hart, Nathan | Maine | 1877 | The Hart-Meservey Murder. |
Crittenden, Alexander P. | Fair, Laura D. | California | 1870 | The Woman in Black. |
Walworth, Mansfield. | Walworth, Frank | New York | 1873 | The Walworth Patricide. |
Field, Herbert | Vanderpool, George H | Michigan | 1869 | The Vanderpool-Field Tragedy. |
Shaw, Honora & Lynch, Ellen | Spring, Arthur Sr. | Pennsylvania | 1853 | Arthur Spring Jr. vs. Arthur Spring Sr. |
Young, Mabel H. | Piper, Thomas W. | Massachusetts | 1875 | The Boston Belfry Tragedy. |
Van Amburgh, Betsey | Arnold, Stephen | New York | 1805 | A Savage Ruffian. |
Nathan, Benjamin | Unknown | New York | 1870 | Who Killed Benjamin Nathan? |
Garber, Anna & Ream Elizabeth | Anderson, Alexander & Richards, Henry | Pennsylvania | 1857 | The Manheim Tragedy. |
Taylor, J. T. & 10 others | Kelly Family | Kansas | 1887 | Another "Bender Family." |
Bachmann, William | Marlow, Charles | New York | 1871 | The Marlow Murder. |
Ambler, Rose | Lewis, William | Connecticut | 1883 | The Raven Stream Crime. |
4+ People | Cannon, Patty | Delaware | 1820 | The Notorious Patty Cannon. |
Kniffin, Myra | Kniffin, Arthur & Purcell, Emma | New Jersey | 1890 | Chloroformed to Death. |
Sharp, Col. Solomon | Beauchamp, Jereboam | Kentucky | 1825 | The Kentucky Tragedy. |
Alexander, Sarah | Rubenstein, Pesach N. | New York | 1875 | The Corn Field Murder. |
Hoyle, Lillie | Cowie, Dixon & McQuaid, Thomas | Massachusetts | 1875 | The Webster Mystery. |
Kelly, Mamie | Goldenson, Alexander | California | 1886 | The School-girl Murder. |
Sawtell, Hiram | Sawtell, Isaac | New Hampshire | 1890 | Cain and Abel. |
Keith, Harvey | Barker, Marshal & William | Michigan | 1885 | Murder at Bloomingdale. |
Smith, Althadine & Wilson, Louisa | Smith, Alfred | Ohio | 1886 | The Sailor and the Spiritualist. |
Smith, Emma Taylor | Smith, Samuel R. | Illinois | 1885 | A Shrewd Rascal. |
Kirk, William | Berner, William & Palmer, Joseph. | Ohio | 1883 | The Courthouse Riots. |
Allen, Thomas | Oliver, George | Ohio | 1883 | Murder among the Shantyboats. |
Maybee, Lydia & Anna | Rugg, Charles | New York | 1883 | The Long Island Murders. |
Hoover, Charles V. | Strunk, Prof. Ira G. | Indiana | 1886 | Professor Strunk. |
McQuillan, Margaret; McQuillan, Sarah; Halliday, Paul | Halliday, Lizzie | New York | 1893 | Worst Woman on Earth. |
Smith, Tillie | Titus, James J. | New Jersey | 1886 | "She Died in Defense of Her Honor." |
Townsend, Kate | Sykes, Troisville Egbert | Lousiana | 1883 | Queen of the Demimonde. |
Tilson, Adella | Wheeler, George A. | California | 1880 | 'Thus She Passed Away.' |
Umberger, Herman | Nicely, Joe & Dave | Pennsylvania | 1889 | The Nicely Brothers. |
Gordon, Almon, Emma & Millie | Gordon, John True | Maine | 1873 | John True Gordon. |
Lovering, Georgianna | Evans, Franklin B. | New Hampshire | 1872 | The Northwood Murderer. |
Halsted, Oliver "Pet" | Botts, George | New Jersey | 1871 | The Murder of Pet Halsted. |
Reinhardt, Mary Anne Dungen | Reinhardt, Edward | New York | 1878 | The Silver Lake Mystery. |
Ford, Jane; Ruddy, James; Ruddy, Frank | Samon, Thomas | New Hampshire | 1883 | The New Hampshire Horror. |
Muller, Philomena | Kenkowski, Martin | New Jersey | 1881 | The Guttenberg Murder. |
Lassiter, Charles H. | Carawan, Rev.George W. | North Carolina | 1852 | The North Carolina Tragedy. |
Mohrman, Mary | Hanlon, John | Pennsylvania | 1868 | Little Mary Mohrman. |
Young, Jacob & Nancy | Clem, Nancy; Abrams, William; Hartman, Silas | Indiana | 1868 | The Notorious Mrs. Clem. |
Runkle, John | Runkle, Mary | New York | 1847 | Cup of Affliction. |
Gould, Sarah Jane | Eldredge, James E. | New York | 1857 | James E. Eldredge. |
Stiles, William | DeWolf, Orrin | Massachusetts | 1845 | Orrin DeWolf. |
Garrity, Bridgett “Beezy” | Driscoll, Daniel | New York | 1886 | Murder Among the Whyos, Part 1. |
Quinn, Joseph Francis | Lyons, Daniel M. | New York | 1887 | Murder Among the Whyos, Part 2. |
Lyons, Daniel | Murphy, Daniel | New York | 1887 | Murder Among the Whyos, Part 2. |
Colvin, Francis A. | Linsday, Owen | New Jersey | 1859 | The Baldwinsville Homicide. |
Harden, Hannah Louisa | Harden, Rev. Jacob S. | New York | 1873 | The Confession of Jacob Harden. |
Hendrickson, Maria | Hendrickson, John, Jr. | New York | 1853 | Sudden Death, Foul Suspicions. |
11 comments :
November 3, 2015 at 9:11 PM
Here's one you've missed: The Keller Family, Auburn, New York. Jan 25 1894. The post-mortem photo is beautiful. Then there's the Porter kids, axe murdered by their father in Ohio in 1872. Finally, there's the Pasons, murdered near Success MO on Oct. 12, 1906. Those are the murders at Thanatos you didn't have here.
November 4, 2015 at 12:20 PM
Thanks Dawn, I will definitely check out the Kellers and the Porters. The murders that make it to this page have an interesting story, with a conclusive ending, such as a trial or an execution. If I just have a picture and a summary they become part of the “Little Murders” series, not included here. I will have to do some research to determine where the Kellers and Porters end up.
March 23, 2016 at 1:25 PM
Mr. Wilhelm--
With a partner, I'm doing a book for Little, Brown called Monsters of the Ivy League. We're looking for the stories of I.L. graduates (or faculty) who have, among other things, committed murder. Can you recommend some names or crimes PRIOR to, say, 1940? The 19th and 18th centuries would be especially appreciated. Many thanks.
March 27, 2016 at 9:16 AM
Ellis,I have a couple of Ivy Leaguers: In 1849 Harvard professor, John White Webster murdered George Parkman. Both were Harvard graduates. http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/02/murder-at-harvard.html
In 1881, Walter Malley was charged as an accomplice to the murder of Jennie Cramer. He went to Yale but didn’t graduate. http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2011/03/found-drifting-with-tide.html
March 29, 2016 at 12:31 AM
If you want an interesting murder story you might want to check out the murder of Mrs. Martha Parrish by her son in law James Hayden "Hade" Brown in 1877 in Randolph County Missouri. The murder itself is not interesting, but the events that take place afterwards are. Hade lead a brief life on the run. There was a suicide pact between Hade and his wife days before his hanging. His suicide attempt was foiled in jail, but his wife successfully killed herself. Thousands attended his hanging on the outskirts of Huntsville Missouri. And then after his hanging Hade and his wife were buried in a double coffin arm in arm. It was well covered by the papers in Missouri of the early 1880s.
January 14, 2017 at 6:23 AM
http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/trialevidence/articles/spring2014-0614-lincolns-last-murder-trial-people-v-harrison.html z I think you will find this murder trial and case interesting.
January 14, 2017 at 6:28 AM
http://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/trialevidence/articles/spring2014-0614-lincolns-last-murder-trial-people-v-harrison.html
February 13, 2017 at 12:28 PM
Are you going to be collecting information on Jesse Pomeroy, the 14 year old murderer from Boston? I have a list of resources and would love to see it represented on this site!
May 2, 2017 at 1:39 PM
Mr Wilhem,
I am writing a book about a murder in the UK in 1823 of a Mr William Wood. Of the three perpetrators, two were caught (one killed himself, one was executed) and one got clean away. To the States from Liverpool we believe. Do you have any records pertaining to robbery with murder from 1823 forward involving the arrest of an Englishman - his name was John Platt but he sometimes used the alias Pratt. Thank you in advance for your time and effort. Best, Bill Borrows (bill@billborrows.com)
July 13, 2018 at 10:44 AM
I just LOVE this site. Something for everyone here. The period illustrations are the best part.
August 22, 2020 at 2:06 AM
Michael, Norah, and Theresa Murphy were slaughtered in an 1898 unsolved mystery known as The Gatton Murders.
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