The 1857 murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell, with its colorful cast of characters and upscale urban setting, was the kind of story that sold pape...

Little Murders   (From  New York Tribune   ,  New York, New York ,  December 26, 1899 ) Murder on Christmas Morning.   A Moto...

Patty Cannon was, by all accounts, among the most barbarous and amoral women in American history. In antebellum Delaware, Patty Cannon le...

The ideal woman in Victorian (and pre-Victorian) America was modest, prim and respectable, but when a woman deviated from the ideal she did ...

Little Murders   (From Huntsville Gazette ,  Huntsville, Alabama ,  August 9, 1884 ) Guilty of Murder.   A Verdict of Murder ...

Rose Clark Ambler Rose Ambler said goodnight to her fiancé at the Raven Stream Bridge, the night of September 2, 1883, and started wa...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Theodore Baker. "Theodore Baker was hanged at Los Vegas, N.M., for killing o...

Little Murders   (From Kansas City Times , Kansas City, Missouri, October 17, 1885 ) Did it Mean Murder   Two Sisters Quar...

William Bachmann came to Jamestown, New York, from Toledo, Ohio, in August 1871, intent on purchasing some property and he told everyone ...

Little Murders   (From  The National Police Gazette , November 10, 1883 )   The Brooklyn Wife Murder.     A Saloon Keeper, ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Mabel Smith. "This big mulatto is a wicked creature, who severed her grandmo...

In the 1870s the people of Kansas were outraged by the crimes of the Benders , a family of four who welcomed weary travelers then murd...

In the nineteenth century men of the cloth were often looked upon with as much suspicion as respect. When a minister was accused of murder ...

Little Murders   ( A bad weekend in the Midwest - From Daily Inter Ocean , Chicago, Illinois, January 30, 1877 )   Crime and Cr...

Richards & Anderson On a sunny December morning in 1857, Mrs. Anna Garber and Mrs. Elizabeth Ream were raped and murdered in Mrs. ...

Little Murders   (From Daily Inter Ocean , Chicago, Illinois, December 19, 1877 )   Husband Murder. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 18—...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Samuel Moore Williams. "Samuel Moore Williams in 1879 committed a cold blood...

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...