Little Murders (From   National Police Gazette,  January 29, 1888 ) Shot His Father. William Howell, of Ashland, Ky., 17 years ...

Little Murders (From   Sun ,   Baltimore, Maryland , December 25, 1879 ) Murder of a School Mate by Two Girls. Cincinnati, Dec. 24...

Islip was a quiet little town on the southern shore of Long Island, populated by the families of seafaring men and summer visitors ...

Little Murders A bitter rivalry between two Ashland, Ohio newspapers turned bloody in a Cleveland courtroom on October 30, 1887. T...

Here are some murder related cartes de visite I recently acquired. They were produced at the time of the murders and sold as souvenirs . ...

In 1868, Mrs. Mohrman, a widowed mother, lived with her five daughters, on Orkney Street in Philadelphia. The youngest girl, Mary, was a...

In honor of Halloween, I am switching, this week, from nineteenth century murder to seventeenth century witchcraft. Everyone knows of the m...

Little Murders Stephen Effler On January 6, 1881, a traveler named Sowers stopped at the home of Stephen Effler and his wife an...

Little Murders (From  New York Tribune ,  November 29, 1883 ) An Ancient Mystery Solved.   The Perpetrator of One Murder, Which ...

Little Murders Andrew J. Gillen When he was a young law student, Andrew J. Gillen was mentored by Michael Sigerson, Assistant Cor...

The Reverend George Washington Carawan, prominent and powerful North Carolina Baptist minister was a man of violent temper and strong an...

The Carlton House was a cheap hotel on the corner of Franklin and William Streets in New York City. The basement of the building housed s...

The state of New Jersey has been the scene of quite a few sensational murders, and it was famous in the nineteenth century for swift prosec...

Little Murders North Madison, Connecticut, was rural and sparsely populated in the 1880s. The land was rough and rocky and the soil har...

Little Murders (From Cincinnati Daily Gazette , Cincinnati, Ohio,  December 27, 1870 ) The Hamilton Murder.   A Most Mysteriou...

On May 3, 1881, Mena Muller and Louis Kettler took the ferry from New York City to Hoboken, New Jersey. They were going to be married in...

Little Murders Sixteen-year-old Katie Hood left the house the evening of Saturday, September 21, 1889 and never returned. She worked at...

Disposing of the body without being captured has always been a post-mortem problem for a murderer, but in the nineteenth century there alwa...

Zora Burns Missouri Burns, better known as Zora, was nineteen years old when she left her father's home in St. Elmo, Illinois, to ...

I am proud to announce that my book,  The Bloody Century , has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Independent Author Network Book ...