National Police Gazette , June 1, 1889. On May 12, 1889, the janitor of the Clifton Boat Club on Staten Island found the body of a young wom...

Two days after her disappearance, search parties formed to look for any trace of Emma between Hill’s Grove and Pontiac. They focused on...

  An Illustrated Encyclopedia: The 1891 Murder Of Carrie Brown , a new book by Howard and Nina Brown of JTRForums.com , is a comprehensive s...

  Mary Barrows and Oscar Blaney. Illustrated Police News , May 9, 1885, In 1883, Mary Barrows of Kittery, Maine, persuaded her son-in-law, O...

  A driverless horse and wagon wandered aimlessly in the prairie between Fort Gibson and Tahlequah in Indian Territory on December 3, 1883. ...

National Police Gazette , January 14, 1882. In January 1882, Kitty Mulcahey was jailed in St. Louis for the murder of Alfred Tonkin. Kitty w...

Illustrated Police News, Nov. 10, 1883. Zora Burns was a beautiful and captivating young woman with “…abundant hair of yellow-golden tint c...

Foully slain by his scapegrace son -- Emanuel Breist meets a terrible fate at Kikngerstown, Pa. Emanuel Breist was one of the wealthiest far...

In the winter of 1877, Captain Luther Meservey went to sea, leaving his wife Sarah alone in their home in the village of Tenant’s Harbor, Ma...

Robert Kever and William Lowman were walking together on Mississippi Street in Indianapolis around 10:00 the night of January 15, 1880. With...

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Michael Gorman's Last Look at Sing Sing Prison. On October 9, 1888, convicted murderer Michael Gorman walked out of Sing Sing Prison a f...

Charley McGill and Mary Kelly. In 1874, Charley McGill saw Mary Kelly on the street in Columbus, Ohio. He struck up an acquaintance with Mar...

Susan Hanson Susan Hanson of Brookfield, New Hampshire, was sitting in the kitchen with her mother and brother on the evening of November 2,...

It was a foolproof plan. Six men in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, bought insurance policies on the life of Joseph Raber, an elderly recluse ...

In 1876, Kate Hambrick married Bob Southern in Picken’s County, Georgia. That Christmas, Kate’s father held a party for the community, and a...

In 1898, Mrs. Ida Deane, of Dover, Delaware received a box of chocolates by mail from an anonymous sender. When she served them at a dinner ...

Charles B. Merrihew became violently ill in May 1879 at his home in Lowville, New York, and was being nursed by his wife, Harriet. They sent...

  Rose Ambler said goodnight to her fiancé at the Raven Stream Bridge in  Stratford, Connecticut  on the night of September 2, 1883, and sta...