Little Murders (From The Evening Statesman . Marshall, Michigan, February 12, 1887. ) WAS IT MURDER? The death of Bart Garfield said to be...

Someone with a knowledge of American murder ballads would likely notice a serious omission at Murder by Gaslight—the 1896 murder of Pearl Br...

In 1854, a woman calling herself Henrietta Robinson stood trial in Troy, New York, for poisoning a neighbor and his sister-in-law. Despit...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Alfred Taylor. In July, 1888, Alfred Taylor of Lapeer, N. Y., killed Melville Frieze of Ric...

Winfield Scott Goss was a chemical experimenter with a well-known fondness for intoxicating spirits. When his workshop, in a cottage outsi...

Little Murders (From The Galveston Daily News, Galveston Texas, December 26, 1885. ) A BLOODY CHRISTMAS EVE. SHOCKING BUTCHERIES AT AUSTIN...

The body of Mary E. Hill was found lying outside her Philadelphia home, by her maid returning from church the night of November 22, 1868....

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Cherry Scott. "Cherry Scott is a mulatto woman, who killed her mother, and wa...

Helen Potts, a nineteen year old student at Miss Comstock’s School in New York City, decided not to join her roommates when they went to h...

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...