Little Murders (From Titusville Mornign Herald , Titusville, PA, February 11, 1873) AN UNGRATEFUL FIEND He Asks for Bread, and then Murder...

It's Bloody Murder Monday at YesterYear Once More . The story of a stabbing at the Grizzly Bear saloon, on the San Francisco Waterfront,...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Hong Di. This Chinese murderer deliberately attempted to murder a whole family, and succe...

This one has the potential to become a big murder and I will dig deeper when time allows. But for now all I have is the front page of an...

Murder of a Husband and Wife .—We learn from the Patterson (N. J.) Guardian, extra, that that community has been thrown into great excitemen...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Van B. Baker. Mrs. McWha and her daughter, Mrs. Eliza Baker, lived at Holliday Cove, W. V...

From Lizzie Borden: Warps & Wefts: Another Unsolved Axe Murder

The year 1825 was a momentous one for Buffalo, New York. The Erie Canal opened, connecting Lake Erie to the Hudson River, a celebration ho...

In January 2011, I posted a story on the 1821 murder of Peter Lagaordette by Manual Phillip Garcia from the Torch Light and Public Advertise...

Murder by Gaslight is pleased to welcome guest blogger Elizabeth Kerri Mahon of Scandalous Women She will be sharing the story of Mary E...

Evangelist, temperance leader, author and publisher Emma Molloy opened her home to the lost and lonely the way others took in stray cats....

December 1884, William Druse of Herkimer County, New York, was brutally murdered, dismembered, and burned, his ashes and bones dumped i...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Henry Carlton. On the morning of Oct. 29, 1888 Policeman James Brennan was shot d...

George Abbott was a young child when he began his career as a thief and by his thirtieth birthday he had spent a third of his life in jai...

Nellie Meeks The morning of May 11, 1894, 6-year-old Nellie Meeks knocked on the door of Mrs. John Carter in Linn County, Missouri. Mr...

Little Murders Shocking Tragedy in Gratiot County Democratic Expounder , Marshall, MI, March 28, 1861 One of the most frightful and inhum...

When the body of beautiful young Jennie Cramer was found on a sand bar in the ocean off West Haven Connecticut in August 1881 it was assu...

Looking through American Murder Ballads and Their Stories , by Olive Woolley Burt, I found three ballads relating to two murders already cov...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Emma Davis. This remarkable woman has a mania for administering poison to those whom she ...

The townhouse at 31 Bond Street was, to all appearance, a model of staid middleclass Manhattan decorum.  In 1857 it was a boardinghouse r...