Luminous-Lint, a website devoted to history, evolution and analysis of photography has a great on-line exhibition of 19th century British a...

John True Gordon John True Gordon was convicted of one of Maine’s most heinous crimes, the axe murder of his brother Almon, his broth...

The infamous Lizzie Borden now has her own television series and for the next several weeks she will be terrorizing her hometown, Fall Ri...

Little Murders   (From Macon Weekly Telegraph , Macon, Georgia,  October 2, 1868 ) Murder.  Fifth Act in a Protracted Tragedy...

Brothers Joe and Dave Nicely were the prime suspects in the robbery and murder of Herman Umberger in his home in Jennertown, Pennsylvan...

William Major returned from a trip to Romeo, Michigan, to his home in Mount Vernon, Michigan, on December 27, 1890, to find that his daug...

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was the site of quite a few brutal and sensational 19th century murders. While many of the crimes occurred ...

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

Little Murders   Frankie Morris Loveland In 1884, Kansas attorney A. A. Hurd took out a $5,000 policy with the Mutual Life Insuran...

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...