Benjamin Nathan, a wealthy stockbroker and philanthropist, was found brutally beaten to death in his Manhattan home the morning of July 2...

Little Murders   (From Cincinnati Daily Gazette , Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27, 1880 )   Murder Will Out. Startling Developments o...

Little Murders   (From Flake's Bulletin , Galveston, Texas, January 15, 1870 ) Murder! Murder! Murder!!     Last night, a...

Illustrations from the 1872 book Life, Adventures, Strange Career and Assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr. provide a good graphic prese...

  In the early 1870s, the city of Boston experienced a rash of gruesome murders. In October 1871, 18-year-old Kate Leehan was raped...

 An editorial on ruffianism from the New York Herald ,  June 11, 1872: The Horrible Murder in Division Street.     We are becom...

Haley Dock and Homestead. The murder occurred in the third house from the left. An article in the October 1874 issue of Harper’s Magazin...

James Fennimore Cooper recalled a day in June 1806 when he joined the population of Cooperstown, New York, to witness an eclipse of the s...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Clement Arthur Day. "Clement Arthur Day, who murdered Josie Rosa on the morn...

On the morning of March 11, 1853, the bodies of  Mrs. Honora Shaw and her sister Mrs. Ellen Lynch were found brutally stabbed and beaten...

Little Murders   (From The Wheeling Register , Wheeling, West Virginia, June 6, 1885 ) Deserved Double Lynching.   Two Broth...

Though he was only twenty-one years old in 1869, Herbert Field had already faced death numerous times in a variety of exotic locations. F...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : James H. Jacobs. “On the night of 11th of December 1886, Jacobs stabbed Elmer E. ...

Reprinted from New York Herald, December 22, 1868. A Visit to the Tombs. An Interview with the Prisoners Committed for murder—What T...

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 ...