Mary A. Brown A wholesale robbery operation was uncovered outside of Irvington, Indiana, four miles east of Indianapolis. In January ...

Albert E. Hauntstine had been a fugitive for nearly two weeks before being apprehended on November 22, 1888, in Columbus, Nebraska, by Pl...

An attractive young woman checked into the Paxton Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, just before eight o’clock the morning of November 17, 18...

                                             The body of an unknown man with a gunshot wound to the head was found on the corner of 100t...

Two young boys walking down a road in Lexington, Massachusetts, on January 4, 1887, found a bloody shirt atop a stone wall by the side of...

George Lear, an ex-prize fighter living in Altman, Colorado, had a bone to pick with Irene Good, a pretty barmaid at the Branch Saloon on...

Will Shinall ran a small store and bar in Hackletown, Georgia, a suburb of Augusta. In the backrooms of the store, he resided with his wife...

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer used a dazzling array of aliases to stay one step ahead of detectives as they moved from city to city engag...

Tom Moore had been courting the daughter of Bud Reynolds, a well-known distiller of Prestonsburg, Kentucky, against the wishes of the o...

For several weeks in November 1892, Herman Siegler had been depressed and melancholy. Siegler was a wood carver employed by Wolf Bros. of...

John Chisholm Lottie Chisholm left her husband John and, taking their two children, went to stay at her parents’ home in Newark, New Je...

Mrs. Fanny Bennett excitedly knocked on the door of Charles Bates, the morning of September 10, 1896. Mrs. Bennett, a widow who lived abo...

The night ended in a melee at Henry Shear’s lager-beer saloon in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on January 6, 1868, and Henry She...

Margaret Howard. Mrs. Lavinia Wolf, who ran a boardinghouse in Cincinnati, was working in the kitchen on the afternoon of February 2,...

Frank and Eliza Florin of Cleveland, Ohio, had been married for sixteen years and had three children aged 8, 9 and 15. When sober, Frank ...

Scene of the Squibb Family Murder. George Snelbaker went to the farm of his grandfather, George Squibb, to borrow an auger, the morni...

Little Murders (From  Portland Daily Press,  December 25,1878) Murder by Wholesale. A Nebraska Man Confesses to Nine Murde...

Jane Finlay was a young woman employed as a lady’s maid by the family of T.B. Stork, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, who had recently disc...

(From  New York Tribune,  September 20, 1871) A Romantic Story. A man accused of murder proved innocent after death. Some work...

John Dougherty, a sixty-year-old farmer in Big Bend, Washington, decided he needed a wife and in 1892, he placed an advertisement in a Ch...