Herman Webster Mudgett, alias Dr. H. H. Holmes , confessed to killing 27 men, women, and children, but lawmen estimated that his actual tota...

In the summer of 1827, George Swearingen was a hardworking, upstanding, young family man.  He and his lovely wife, Mary, had a new baby d...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Edward Hovey. Edward Hovey was hanged in New York City on October 19, 1883,...

The afternoon of August 26, 1871 a porter at the Hudson River Railroad Depot in Manhattan, noticed a disgusting odor emanating from a tru...

Little Murders Well, it had to come out eventually. I try to avoid clichés like “murder most foul” but here it is in the Adams Sentinel , ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Fillipe Guestoni. On the morning of June 11, 1888, several pistol shots were ...

   Murder by Gaslight is pleased to welcome guest blogger Cheri Farnsworth. Cheri has been a longtime friend of Murder by Gaslight ; last y...

From the Bowery Boys: Happy Duel Day 2011: When Vice Presidents attack! 207 years ago today, Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a du...

No wonder we never found Jack the Ripper, we should have been looking for Bill; or so says the Boston Daily Globe , on July 20, 1889. The ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Ebenezer Stanyard. Ebenezer Stanyard was hung at Youngstown, Ohio, for the murder of a wo...

Update 6/29/2011 On June 29, 2011, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed an official proclamation granting a full pardon to John Gord...

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...

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

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...