( Illustrated Police News , February 1, 1885) On Thursday, July 27, 1882, Sarah Proctor, of Salem, Massachusetts, heard groans coming from t...

(Illustrated Police News, April 3, 1886.) Agnes Anastasia Long moved out of her parents’ home in East Attleboro, Massachusetts, in April 188...

( New Haven Independent ) Taylor Ward sings "Found Drifting with th...

  Stephen Pettus gave Hannah Southworth a glass of drugged champagne and had his way with her while she was unconscious. Hannah became pregn...

(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...

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...

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

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...

( National Police Gazette , November 20, 1881.) After less than two years of marriage in Iowa City, Iowa, Lizzie Stein filed for divorce fro...

Charles Arthur Preller and Hugh Mottram Brooks ( Illustrated Police News , April 25 & May 2, 1885) Charles Arthur Preller and Hugh Mottr...

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper , June 8, 1889. Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin was a prominent Chicago physician and a member of Clan-na-...

Captain McGregor of the No. 8 Engine Company on Fifth Street in Baltimore saw a woman come out of the house across the street and collapse o...

Emma Malloy and George E. Graham Illustrated Police News , April 17, 1886 & May 15, 1886. Famous Evangelist, temperance leader, author, ...

 "The verdict of the coroner’s jury charges that Mrs. Druse shot her husband with a revolver, struck him with an axe upon the head, and...

Around 1:30 a.m. on February 5, 1881, police were summoned to 109 Poplar Street in St. Louis to investigate gunshots. Inside, they found a s...

  --"'Your Time has Come'", Illustrated Police News , December 8, 1883. Thomas Barrows was found dead in his home in Kitte...

Daniel Van Fossen and his wife hosted a dinner party for their extended family on January 8, 1885, at their home in East Liverpool, Ohio. Fo...

Three teenage boys made a shocking discovery in Philadelphia’s East Fairmont Park on December 26, 1888. They were in a secluded area near th...

On the morning of March 22, 1881, 60-year-old Alby C. Thompson was found in the Thames Hotel on Market Street in Norwich, Connecticut, suffe...