On January 17, 1892, Officer Masterson of the New York City Police arrested a man the police and press had dubbed “Jack the Slasher.” Sin...

As the family of Joseph Blair of Montclair, New Jersey, dined on June 26, 1879, their houseguest, Miss Rebeca Draper, remarked that she h...

The Execution. John and Margaret Meierhoffer had a small farm in West Orange, New Jersey, about seven miles from Newark. They had bee...

21-year-old Alfred Egbert, better known as Pete, lived with his parents, a brother and a sister in Rockville, Indiana. He was a quiet man...

George Wright. Albert Hayes left his parents’ home in Eureka, Utah in December 1894, and went to work on the family ranch near Pelican ...

Neal Devaney. In the summer of 1866, newlyweds Neal and Catherine Devaney left Ireland for New York City. Catherine worked as a domes...

An excerpt from Wicked Victorian Boston.   When a Chinese man was found brutally murdered in his laundry on Shawmut Avenue in Boston’...

Mrs. Emma Marrs and her sister-in-law, Ida Ma rrs, were preparing breakfast the morning of February 13, 1897, in their home at 129 South...

Mrs. Ida Quinlan and her 9-year-old son Johnny went out to buy a pair of stockings at around 9:00 the night of February 1, 1896, leaving ...

Shortly after the Civil War, Christian Meiar secured a questionable title to a farm in Ripley County, Indiana and moved there with h...

Amos and Fannie Stillwell returned home from a party at a neighbor’s house on December 29, 1889. It was a small gathering of Hannibal, ...

Charles W. Henry was a cruel and heartless miser. In 1895 he was 70-years-old, living in Brooklyn with his wife and 39-year-old son Willi...

Mrs. Alice Sterling of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, traveled to Everett, Massachusetts the morning of Wednesday, April 10, 1895, lea...

A report from Vicksburg, Mississippi stated that William Montgomery, a citizen of Harrison County, Indiana, was murdered in Vicksburg a...

When William W. Place’s first wife died, he was anxious to remarry, looking for a mature woman who was a good housekeeper and most importan...

Major William C. Wilson was a dealer in old manuscripts and proprietor of Wilson’s Circulating Library on Walnut Street in Philadelphia. He...

George Widman and Thomas Brownlee accompanied a young lady name Miss Norris on an excursion up the Hudson River from Yonkers, New York to N...

John Dorman left the farmhouse to work in his fields at about 1:15, the afternoon of September 1, 1897. His wife, Lizzie, had some bankin...

Henry Miller went to the home of his doctor, Zachariah Walker, in Brownsburg, Virginia, to pick up some medicine on Wednesday, November...

(From New York American , January 3, 1898.) Girl Killed in Elevator, A Mystery. Engineer Farrell Can’t Explain the Strange Facts...