18-year-old Lizzie McDaniels was walking home from a wedding party in Cherokee Flat, California, at around 4:00 am on June 1, 1871. Two comp...

Captain McGregor of the No. 8 Engine Company on Fifth Street in Baltimore saw a woman come out of the house across the street and collapse o...

Emma Malloy and George E. Graham Illustrated Police News , April 17, 1886 & May 15, 1886. Famous Evangelist, temperance leader, author, ...

On the afternoon of November 25, 1869, Daniel McFarland walked into the office of the New York Tribune and there shot and killed Albert Ri...

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,  March 28, 1868. Robert Sprague, a normally peaceful man, was spending a quiet evening with his fa...

 "The verdict of the coroner’s jury charges that Mrs. Druse shot her husband with a revolver, struck him with an axe upon the head, and...

Artificial Intelligence would be an excellent tool for historical research, but for one flaw – it does not distinguish between fact and gues...

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Around 1:30 a.m. on February 5, 1881, police were summoned to 109 Poplar Street in St. Louis to investigate gunshots. Inside, they found a s...

  --"'Your Time has Come'", Illustrated Police News , December 8, 1883. Thomas Barrows was found dead in his home in Kitte...

Daniel Van Fossen and his wife hosted a dinner party for their extended family on January 8, 1885, at their home in East Liverpool, Ohio. Fo...

Three teenage boys made a shocking discovery in Philadelphia’s East Fairmont Park on December 26, 1888. They were in a secluded area near th...

Helen (Ellen) Jewett was an upscale ...

On the morning of March 22, 1881, 60-year-old Alby C. Thompson was found in the Thames Hotel on Market Street in Norwich, Connecticut, suffe...

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,  March 28, 1868. George Stotler went to Jacob Eisnagle’s house in Anderson, Indiana, on the aftern...

Murder knows no age limit, and some of the most sensational murders in the 19th century were committed by teenagers. Often, their victims we...

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Jerry Shoaff was drinking with a group of young men at Tom Clarke’s saloon in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the night of October 3, 1888. Eight of th...