Little Murders (From The  Wooster Republican , January 2, 1871 )   Fanaticism and Murder.   The Cause of the Murder of the F...

Alice Hoyle had last seen her sister, Lillie the night of September 1, 1887 in the room they shared in Webster, Massachusetts. Lillie had...

There seems to be an ongoing debate on the question of who was America’s first serial killer. Often the names H. H. Holmes and the Bender Fa...

Sarah Alexander, a seventeen-year-old Jewish immigrant from Poland, left her home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on December 12, 1875...

Thomas W. Piper killed Mabel Young two years after the death of poet Byron DeWolfe, so how was DeWolfe able to publish a poem about the m...

Murder by Gaslight is pleased to be a stop on Harold Schechter’s The Mad Sculptor (Of True Crime) Blog Tour . The works of Harold Schec...

Murder in San Francisco.     In response to the question, “Why cannot Murder be punished in San Francisco,” the Oakland Enquirer makes ...

Little Murders (From The National Police Gazette , October 16,1886 )   A Boy Shoots His Sweetheart and Himself. A Love-Sick ...

Jereboam Beauchamp stabbed Col. Solomon Sharp to avenge the honor of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp. The story of the murder—known from t...

Five women of New York have been murdered by a fiend. Their cases are similar to that of the woman whose body was found in the courtyard ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : William D. Sindram. "On Friday, the 21st day of October 1882, William D. ...

A terrible crime occurred at the home of Dr. Arthur Kniffin, in Trenton, New Jersey, the night of January 2, 1890. While Dr. Kniffin wa...

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...