Illustrated Police News, Nov. 10, 1883. Zora Burns was a beautiful and captivating young woman with “…abundant hair of yellow-golden tint c...

A postmortem examination revealed that Katie Dugan was four months pregnant when her body was found beaten and slashed in an empty field in ...

William James and Denwood Hinds of Baltimore were close friends who had served together in the Fifth Maryland Regiment. The friendship would...

Parental hostility drove Fanny Madison out of her home and into the arms of her cousin, Thomas Cluverius. It was not a wise decision. Read t...

James E. Eldredge James E. Eldredge left his home in Canton, New York in the spring of 1856. He returned six months later with a new na...

Ellen Lucas of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was to be married on October 3, 1874. The typically happy 18-year-old was somewhat anxious, the e...

A young man walking through an empty field behind a residence on the western side of Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday, October 20, 1892,...

Mildred Brewster Mildred Brewster was the daughter of a wealthy farmer near Montpelier, Vermont. In 1897, 18-year-old Mildred decided...

Little Murders Two men walking through the woods near Dalton, Georgia, came across the body of a young woman lying in Milk Creek...

Zora Burns Missouri Burns, better known as Zora, was nineteen years old when she left her father's home in St. Elmo, Illinois, to ...

Stephen L. Pettus stepped off the Fulton ferry boat from Brooklyn, the morning of November 22, 1889 and was walking up Fulton Street whe...

Sarah Alexander, a seventeen-year-old Jewish immigrant from Poland, left her home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on December 12, 1875...

As children, Harry and Myra Black were playmates with William McKaig, but as adults McKaig did not view the Blacks as his equals—the McKa...

William James and Denwood Hinds of Baltimore were close friends who had served together in the Fifth Maryland Regiment. The friendship wou...

Mary Pomeroy was the organist at the Prospect Avenue Presbyterian Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1874 she was a beautiful young wo...

In the autumn of 1882, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Nicholas L. Dukes learned that his fiancée, Lizzie Nutt, had been intimate with other ...

Lillian Madison’s relations with her immediate family in the 1880s were strained if not outright hostile. Her parents disapproved of her ...