In an old book, recently, I found a story about a murderous 1897 card game in Alaska which featured the notorious outlaw, Soapy Smith. To ...

Little Murders (From Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel , Fort Wayne, Indiana, November 6, 1875 ) OUR MURDERERS. Eleven Men Awaiting T...

A little after 1:00 pm on Tuesday, September 3, 1878, Charles Stannard saw his twenty-two-year-old daughter, Mary, leave their home in th...

Little Murders (From Oshkosh Daily Northwestern , Oshkosh, Wisconsin, April 18, 1894 ) CONFESSING AN AWFUL CRIME. . A Georgia...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : George Tartar. "George Tartar, who is a most desperate thief and villain, mak...

Just five days before the start of Lizzie Borden’s trial for the murder of her father and step-mother in Fall River, Massachusetts, the t...

The New York City newspaper, The   World, printed this map in their July 18, 1897 edition, indicating the locations of 131 murders in the...

William Goodrich paid a visit to the lodging of his brother Charles, on Degraw Street in Brooklyn, on March 21, 1873. Getting no response...

Cutting the head and limbs off a corpse is hard and messy work. It is almost always an afterthought, an act of desperation by the murderer t...

“The Beautiful Carrie Andrews” is a tragic love story about an up-and-coming young singer from the town of Essex, Massachusetts, and her o...

John M. Armstrong The night of January 23, 1878, a man was found on the ground with a serious head wound not far from the home of Ford ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Hattie Woolsteen. "One of the most extraordinary crimes which ever excited Cali...

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...