The name Walworth was an old and venerable one in the state of New York. William Walworth arrived there from London in 1689; during the A...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Mrs. Sarah Rhodes. “This remarkable woman, who sports a moustache, is accused of ...

  ExecutedToday.com recently celebrated its 2,000th consecutive day posting execution stories from all times and places—that’s every da...

Little Murders   (From New York Herald , New York, New York, October 20, 1885 )   Settling an Old Feud.   A serious stabbing ...

A prominent California legislator was sitting with his wife and son on board the Oakland-San Francisco ferryboat El Capitain the evening...

Life insurance has always provided incentive to murder. Depending on the state of their relationship, the beneficiary may come to view the ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Thomas Riley. "At an early hour on Sunday, Dec. 12, 1886, Robert Coleman was...

The winter of 1877 Captain Luther Meservey went to sea leaving his wife Sarah alone in their home in the village of Tenant’s Harbor, Maine....

Little Murders   (From New York Herald-Tribune , New York, New York, November 21, 1885 ) The Murder of Chong Ong.   A Cu...

As children, Harry and Myra Black were playmates with William McKaig, but as adults McKaig did not view the Blacks as his equals—the McKa...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : William Agnew. "Of all the cold blooded villains, this is one of the worst. ...

I am pleased to welcome guest blogger, James M. Schmidt to Murder by Gaslight. James writes about the American Civil War is the author ...

The Order of Pilgrim Fathers was a Massachusetts social group whose chief purpose was to provide cheap life insurance for working-class m...

In 1869 H. H. Bingham, agent of the Michigan State Prison, issued a pamphlet analyzing the effect of Michigan’s abolition of the death pen...

Little Murders (From Sedalia Daily Democrat , Sedalia, Missouri, October 15, 1876 ) A Brutal Murder.   A Quarrel Between Colo...

On April 16, 1897, cashier Joseph A. Stickney was murdered during a daring daylight robbery of the Great Falls National Bank in Somerswor...

Little Murders This looks like a good one. I'll keep searching for more information.  (From Waterloo Courier , Waterloo, Iowa, ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : August Hetzke. "This individual was convicted in Chicago, Ills., of murder i...

In August of 1810, four little girls picking berries at the foot of a precipice near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, discovered the broken body o...

Little Murders Here are three little Iowa murders from the same edition of The Marion Sentinel :  (From The Marion Sentinel , Merio...