Little Murders (From  Jackson Citizen,  July 17, 1883) The Maniac at Des Moines. The fight with a maniac at a Des Mo...

Daniel M. Lyons (burglar), Dan Driscoll and Dan Lyons were the successful leaders of New York City’s Whyo gang in the early 1880s. Af...

Little Murders (From  New York Tribune,  September 12, 1884) A Mystery Solved by a Skeleton. Complicity of a Wife in the ...

The Whyos, in 1886, were the strongest and most brutal criminal gang New York City had ever known. Under the joint leadership of Dan Dris...

Little Murders (From  Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,  June 2, 1875) Murderous Shooting in a Bagnio. A Girl Attacked with...

Sarah Jane Whiteling On March 17, 1888, Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiteling of Philadelphia sent for the family physician, Dr. George Smith, to e...

Little Murders (From  Richmond Enquirer  November 6, 1845) The last Chicago Democrat 22d ult., is little better than a conti...

28-year-old Cornelius Callahan and his 23-year-old cousin also named Cornelius Callahan, took a train, on October 24, 1883, from Hartford, ...

Massachusetts was the site of America’s most famous unsolved murder – the shocking daylight axe murder of Andrew and Abby Borden. The prime ...

Little Murders (From  New York Sun February 10, 1888) A Murderer’s Death Dance.        Fiddling and Singing the ...

James Hartig, a watchman at the Massapoag House in Sharon, Massachusetts, traveling from the hotel the morning of December 5, 1885, discove...

Little Murders (From  New York Herald  March 9, 1888) A Christmas Eve Murder.        John F...

Orrin De Wolf Orrin De Wolf was a humble hostler in Worcester, Massachusetts in January 1845, but he had prospects for a brighter futur...

Little Murders (From  Cincinnati Commercial Tribune  July 21, 1883) “Coal Oil Johnny” Killed.        ...

The stories of many of America's most memorable murders have been kept alive by folk ballads that have been sung for more than a hundred...

(From   Augusta Chronical ,  January 2, 1888 ) Killed in a Saloon.   Political Factions Meet in New Orleans and a Fatal Fight Resu...

Little Murders John Friese, a 22-year-old car conductor in Baltimore, courted 17-year-old Georgia V. Stone who worked at the Mt. Ver...

Insanity has always been a popular murder defense. Sometimes the insanity plea is painfully appropriate, other times it is the last refuge ...