Massachusetts, settled by Puritans, has long considered itself a model of morality and civilized behavior. But in spite of its lofty postu...

Stephen L. Pettus stepped off the Fulton ferry boat from Brooklyn, the morning of November 22, 1889, and was walking up Fulton Street wh...

Franklin B. Evans When senseless a murder occurred with no obvious suspects, a community’s worst fear was that some transient had dri...

On November 22, 1868, the body of Mrs. Mary E. Hill was found on the ground outside of her Philadelphia residence. It did not take the polic...

Little Murders Lemuel Willis told his wife he had business to take care of in the town of Carlisle, Indiana, ten miles away from their ...

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...

  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...