(From  Salt Lake Tribune , January 10, 1889 ) The Whitechapel Murderer. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 8.—A thorough scare exists in the...

Little Murders The body of Francisco Avidois was found lying among the cat-tails in the meadows outside East Newark, New Jersey, on Sep...

On the surface, George and Fanny Crozier were a well-bred, churchgoing couple in a happy and stable marriage. But not too far beneath th...

Referring to an 1889 book entitled The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin , noted crime writer Edmund P...

Two boys playing near a bridge at Carr’s Corners outside of Elmira, New York on Sunday, January 6, 1884 found the body of a young woman ...

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...