Little Murders (From The World . New York, New York, November 18, 1885. ) A WESTCHESTER TRAGEDY REVIVED Sudden Death of a Man Whose Name was...

Phrenology, the theory that a person’s character is determined by the size and shape of his head, was quite popular in America during the ...

Just three years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the first settlers put down roots in what would later become Essex County, Mass...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Thomas A. Reese. "In May, 1888, Thomas A. Reese shot and nearly killed his w...

The nineteenth century was a golden age of spiritualism, so it’s not surprising that many murder stories from the 1800s have accompanying ...

Little Murders (From Bangor Daily Whig And Courier , Augusta, Maine, February 28, 1881 ) A Deed to Make Mankind Shudder A Young Man Kills ...

Murder by Gaslight is pleased to welcome guest blogger Anthony Vaver of Early American Crime , a blog that documents murder, thievery and o...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Barclay Peakes. "A young and beautiful girl was shot in the head by ...

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...