John Daley rushed from his house on Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis, bleeding profusely from the neck, at around 11:00 the night of May 1...

Nellie C. Bailey. William Dodson led a drive of 2300 head of sheep from Kansas through Indian Territory to their new home in Texas in...

Every day since Halloween 2007, the blog ExecutedToday.com has posted a story of an execution that took place on that date in history some...

A young man walking through an empty field behind a residence on the western side of Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday, October 20, 1892,...

Residents of West 30th Street, New York City, were startled on the night of October 26, 1858, by the cries of Elizabeth Carr, a servant o...

The Rogers family were early settlers in Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, having fought a bloody battle with Indians to secure their homest...

This week we present a guest post from Shelley Dziedzic of Lizzie Borden: Warps & Wefts , a blog devoted to the Borden murders and t...

The morning of December 18, 1889, Edward O’Connor, a San Francisco bartender, surrendered himself to a group of police officers saying, ...

Survivors of Jeannette expedition (James Bartlett, seated second from left) On July 8, 1879, the U.S.S. Jeanette left San Fra...

Luke Dimick was a successful livery stable keeper in Rock Island, Illinois, and the son of a wealthy Chicago real estate man. To all app...

Mrs. Mary Paye. On Christmas Day, 1882, Captain David W. Paye lay dying with symptoms so severe and unusual that three physicians had b...

Today we have a guest post from Undine, who describes herself as “Blogger of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Remarkably lifelike.” And who woul...

Robert "Happy Bob" Van Brunt Robert Van Brunt was born in England in 1863. He barely knew his father, who was a memb...

William J. Elder, aged 61, was addicted to drink and when under its influence was violent and uncontrollable. His wife tolerated his ab...

Joseph Snyder murdering Jacob Geogle and wife - Judge Lynch metes out death to the scoundrel in a summary manner Portraits: 1. Joseph S...

Fictional dime novel detective Old King Brady solves the Bond Street Mystery! Read the true story of Dr. Burdell's murder: T...

Scene of the Debbins murder Walter R. Debbins was shot twice in the back, in broad daylight, on Highland Street in Medford, Massach...

This week we present a guest post by Kyle Dalton; the story of a Civil War era murder by a probable Lincoln assassination conspirator. Kyl...