(From the New York Herald , November 5, 1875.) Boston Detectives—So Called. A Startling Record of their Inefficiency— When Did The...

Kitty Mulcahey A pistol shot from the churchyard of the Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis at around 11:45 the night of Dece...

It would scarcely be safe as a general thing to trust the intervention of spiritual powers for the detection of crime and for the evide...

Little Murders Shortly after 4:00, the afternoon of November 4, 1893, Fred L. Buck rushed into the police station in Elgin, Il...

Finding the Bodies In September 1865, the family of Dr. Carlos Marston rented rooms in a house that had previously been a hotel in So...

When neighbors heard two muffled gunshots, the afternoon of September 20, 1880, coming from the home of George Ware and family on Map...

Little Murders (From  Oregonian,  August 17,1878) The Foulest Murder Yet. The Tullis Murder in Sacramento County – A Con...

Around 1:00 am, the morning of February 26, 1867, Israel Coriell, of Newmarket, New Jersey,  was awakened by frantic knocking on his front ...

Little Murders     J. Oscar Walton, a tenant farmer in Walton, Indiana, had an argument with his landlady, Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the...

Little Murders (From  Cincinnati Daily Gazette,  March 24, 1879) The Murder and the Ghouls The course of several of the city ...

Charles Herman Charles Herman and his wife Eva lived in the upper part of a house on Blossom Alley in the German section of Buffa...

Reports of sensational murders had proven so successful at selling newspapers in earlier decades, that by the 1850s murder had become a fron...

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, ...