In the early 1870s the counties of Labette and Montgomery in Kansas experienced an alarming number of missing persons. The Bender family, wh...

The residents of Rockford, Illinois, Nellie C. Bailly's hometown, remembered her well. When they learned she was accused of murder, the ...

 Lottie Jackson of Greasy Bend, Kansas, was engaged to marry James “Jap” Rainey, but she broke it off in the Fall of 1893. It was probably d...

The beautiful Minnie Wallace Walkup, married at 16, widowed a month later, may have gotten away with murder...three times. Read her story he...

Nellie C. Bailey. William Dodson led a drive of 2300 head of sheep from Kansas through Indian Territory to their new home in Texas in...

(From  Daily Inter Ocean ,  January 11, 1875) Mysterious Murder. A Man Found Dead with Three Bullets in His Brain. Special cor...

  Frankie Morris Loveland In 1884, Kansas attorney A. A. Hurd took out a $5,000 policy with the Mutual Life Insurance Company, on hi...

Little Murders   (From Kansas City Times , Kansas City, Missouri, October 17, 1885 ) Did it Mean Murder   Two Sisters Quar...

In the 1870s the people of Kansas were outraged by the crimes of the Benders , a family of four who welcomed weary travelers then murd...

The Benders were a family of serial killers living in Kansas in the 1870s where they ran a general store and restaurant out of their home. W...

James Walkup, successful businessman and politician from Emporia, Kansas met Minnie Wallace on a trip to New Orleans in December 1884 and...

In the early 1870s the counties of Labette and Montgomery in Kansas were experiencing an alarming number of missing persons. The in...