Edward Newton Rowell and Johnson L Lynch had been neighbors in Utica, New York. Both were successful family men; Rowell a partner i...

  Frankie Morris Loveland In 1884, Kansas attorney A. A. Hurd took out a $5,000 policy with the Mutual Life Insurance Company, on hi...

Little Murders   (From St. Albans M essenger , St. Albans, Vermont,  October 22, 1875 ) Remarkable Murder Trial in Florida.   ...

 Kate Townsend In the years following the Civil War, Basin Street in New Orleans was the center of the most notorious red-light di...

Little Murders   (From Plain Dealer , Cleveland, Ohio,  November 12, 1858 ) Another Murder in Cincinnati-- “Hell’s Half Acre.” ...

Mary Barrows Thomas Barrows was found dead in his home in Kittery, Maine, on November14, 1883.  He was lying in his bed with six bulle...

Tillie Smith When the strangled body of Tillie Smith was found on the grounds of Centenary Collegiate Institute, where she worked as a...

RHODE ISLAND INEQUITY Amasa Sprague The body of Amasa Sprague was found shot and beaten on the road between his factory and his mansi...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Maggie Estars. "Maggie Estars was the keeper of a low resort at Fort Worth,...

On April 22, 1874, the body of four-year-old Horace Millen was found in a clambake pit on Savin Hill Beach in the Dorchester neighborhood...

Unlike other countries in the nineteenth century, the murder rate skyrocketed in the United States, and this wide statistical gap remains to...

When two bodies were found in a hayloft on Paul Halliday’s farm in the town of Mukakating, in New York’s Catskill Mountains, his young Gy...

Little Murders: The Slayback Homicide. Alonzo W. Slayback and John A. Cockrell were two of the most respected men in St. Louis; Slayb...

New book...    Buy it Now! at Amazon. A murderous atmosphere pervaded nineteenth century America unlike anything seen b...

Little Murders   (From Plain Dealer , Cleveland, Ohio,  November 12, 1878 ) Murder or Suicide?   The Mystery of the Dead Body...

Little Murders: Murdered his Mother.   National Police Gazette , Feb. 2, 1889 Elmer Sharkey, still wearing his night clothes, ra...

October 2014 marked the fifth anniversary of weekly posts on Murder by Gaslight (and last week marked our 1,000,000th pageview) to celebra...

It is always a pleasure to present a guest post from our friends at   ExecutedToday.com  who have just competed their seventh year of d...

The most fascinating murder cases of the 19 th Century are the ones that remain unsolved. Their stories have inspired writers and criminolo...

Prof. Ira G. Strunk In 1885, Professor Ira G. Strunk was a model citizen of New Albany, Indiana. He was the Principal of the New Alba...