National Police Gazette , December 29, 1888. Franklin Asbury Hawkins murdered his mother on October 29, 1887, and dumped her body, beaten an...

Dr. Henry Clark of Boston was summoned to 11 Hamilton Place at around 7:00 the morning of December 30, 1879. A woman had been shot and neede...

John Wesley Elkins. 11-year-old John Wesley Elkins was slight of stature—four feet eight inches tall, weighing 73 pounds. He was intelligent...

The morning of January 12, 1889, 22-year-old Elmer L. Sharkey ran to the home of his neighbor, John Clare. A noise on the stairway frightene...

Elizabeth Beecher married Henry King Jr. (known as Harry) in October 1886. Harry wanted to keep the marriage a secret from his father, a wea...

Mary Barrows, of Kittery Maine, told the coroner that her husband, Thomas, had committed suicide. The coroner was faced with two immediate m...

11-year-old John Wesley Elkins (who went by Wesley) got out of bed around 2 a.m. on July 24, 1889, went outside the family’s Iowa farmhou...

On Saturday, May 13, 1882, 16-year-old Thomas McCabe shot his stepmother, Catherine McCabe, in their New York City apartment. The wound to h...

Little Murders Shortly after 4:00, the afternoon of November 4, 1893, Fred L. Buck rushed into the police station in Elgin, Il...

Little Murders Mrs. Annie Brownlee and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Marean, were two widows living together in a house on Dana Stree...

Islip was a quiet little town on the southern shore of Long Island, populated by the families of seafaring men and summer visitors ...

Little Murders   Frankie Morris Loveland In 1884, Kansas attorney A. A. Hurd took out a $5,000 policy with the Mutual Life Insuran...

Little Murders: Murdered his Mother.   National Police Gazette , Feb. 2, 1889 Elmer Sharkey, still wearing his night clothes, ra...

Little Murders (From Bangor Daily Whig And Courier , Augusta, Maine, February 28, 1881 ) A Deed to Make Mankind Shudder A Young Man Kills ...