The morning of June 9, 1874, a two-story house burned to the ground in a section of Rutland, Vermont known as the “swamp.”  Amid the rubb...

Americans have always loved a good murder story. The first book published in Boston, in 1675, was The Wicked Man’s Portion , a sermon abou...

The Boston Daily Globe followed the story in the previous post, “ Three Wounds ” for two more days.  It turns out the Willard Nesbit was,...

Little Murders (Two possibly related stories from The Boston Daily Globe,  Boston, Massachusetts, August  12, 1892 . ) Three Wou...

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Here are the murders that were left out of the post “ Murders in Maine ” on 6/2/2012. Insert the text of this post between paragraphs two a...

Sketch by Johyn Hughes Kerbert Before the Civil War, a prolific balladeer named Henry S. Backus roamed the Catskills in New York State...

A farmhand walking through an oat field in Watervliet, New York on August 7, 1873, came across the corpse of a one-armed man at the top o...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Joseph Sherer. "Two human forms, one that of a young man, the other that of a...

This article on murders in the State of Maine appeared in The Boston Daily Globe on July 9, 1888. It was quite long, so I edited out six o...

The tragic love affair between Charles Kring and Dora Broemser ended in one maddened instant—he asked her to leave her husband, she ref...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Dan Driscoll. Dan Driscoll was without doubt one of the most notorious criminals o...

The night of April 26, 1871, while stepping off a Manhattan horse-car, Avery Putnam was struck from behind and killed by William Foster ...

Little Murders (From  Fitchburg Daily Sentinel,  Fitchburg, Massachusetts, November 9, 1885 . ) Forty Years Suspected of Murder. ...

For several days there had been no activity on the Deering farm, just south of the city of Philadelphia, so on April 11, 1866, their nei...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Joseph Crawford. Joseph Crawford is serving a term of seventeen years in Joliet ...

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...