Little Murders (from The Renwick Times , Renwick Iowa, March 3, 1899.) BECKER TELLS ALL. Kills His Wife with a Hatchet and Burns Her ...

In 1819, when the State of Indiana was still frontier country, Amasa Fuller, a prominent and popular citizen of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, w...

I always like to start the morning with a visit to ExecutedToday.com   to see who was launched into eternity on this day in history. Then, n...

1872 was an eventful year for Boston, Massachusetts. That year the city hosted the World’s Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festiv...

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...