Bob Ramsey, a waiter at a resort hotel in Murphy, North Carolina, was standing in a lower hallway he heard a scream coming from the stairw...

(From Baltimore Sun, March 24, 1882) A Murder Committed Three Years Ago— A Dying Woman’s Confession Norfolk, March 23,— About th...

Little Murders Stephen Effler On January 6, 1881, a traveler named Sowers stopped at the home of Stephen Effler and his wife an...

The Reverend George Washington Carawan, prominent and powerful North Carolina Baptist minister was a man of violent temper and strong an...

The morning of July 21, 1892, the body of Ellen Smith was found behind the Zinzendorf Hotel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She had been...

Charlie and Frankie Silver were the ideal young married couple, so the legend goes; he was strong and handsome, she was kind and beautifu...

The stories behind murder ballads are never as pretty as the songs. The story behind “Tom Dooley” – the 1866 murder of Laura Foster by Tom...

The haunting folk ballad "Omie Wise" has kept the story of Naomi Wise's murder alive for more than two hundred years. Acco...