Margaret Howard learned too late that the man she married was a violent, two-timing gambler. After they separated, he kidnapped their childr...

On February 2, 1846, Francis Adolphus Muir went to the home of his friend Captain William Dandridge Epes. Muir and Epes were two of Dinwiddi...

The Murder of Samuel Adams by John C. Colt. An argu...

Maria Bickford, a beautiful young prostitute, was found murdered in her room in Boston’s Beacon Hill. Her throat was slashed from ear to ear...

Henry G. Green was infatuated with Mary Ann Wyatt, leading lady of a troupe of temperance players who performed in Berlin, New York in 1844....

  The morning of October 27, 1845, the body of Maria Bickford, a beautiful young prostitute, was found murdered in her room in Boston’s Beac...

  The Hangman , a newspaper dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment, celebrated the commutation of Orrin DeWolf’s death sentence on...

Elvira Houghton, a dressmaker in Southbridge, Massachusetts, hired a carriage and driver to take her to her mother’s funeral in the summe...

Charles G. Corlis kept a bowling saloon on Broadway between Leonard and Franklin Streets in New York City. On the evening of March 20, 18...

Andrew Hellman Murdering his Wife. ( Serious Almanac, 1845-1846.) Andrew Hellman was 25-years-old when he traveled from Germany to ...

Margaret Howard. Mrs. Lavinia Wolf, who ran a boardinghouse in Cincinnati, was working in the kitchen on the afternoon of February 2,...

Charles Cook. The afternoon of September 22, 1840, Polly Cornell was surprised to see her niece and nephew running toward her house cry...

Little Murders (From  Richmond Enquirer  November 6, 1845) The last Chicago Democrat 22d ult., is little better than a conti...

Orrin De Wolf Orrin De Wolf was a humble hostler in Worcester, Massachusetts in January 1845, but he had prospects for a brighter futur...

If Mary Runkle was to be believed, she lived a life of sorrow, made all the worse by false accusations. Her “cup of affliction,” was fille...

RHODE ISLAND INEQUITY Amasa Sprague The body of Amasa Sprague was found shot and beaten on the road between his factory and his mansi...

It is always a pleasure to present a guest post from our friends at   ExecutedToday.com  who have just competed their seventh year of d...

On September 24, 1843, Lucien Hall murdered Mrs. Lavinia Bacon in Middletown, Connecticut.  I am planning a more detailed post on this mur...

Poisoners are the most dispassionate of murderers, killing their victims at a distance, sometimes over long periods of time. In the days wh...

Little Murders (From  Fitchburg Daily Sentinel,  Fitchburg, Massachusetts, November 9, 1885 . ) Forty Years Suspected of Murder. ...