Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : August Hetzke. "This individual was convicted in Chicago, Ills., of murder i...

In August of 1810, four little girls picking berries at the foot of a precipice near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, discovered the broken body o...

Little Murders Here are three little Iowa murders from the same edition of The Marion Sentinel :  (From The Marion Sentinel , Merio...

Dr. Perry H. Talbott was among the most prominent citizens of Nodaway County, Missouri. In addition to being a skilled physician, Talbott...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : August Detlaf. "John Phillips and Skip Larking of Chicago, Ills., were sho...

Little Murders (From The Davenport Daily Leader , Davenport, Iowa, January 1, 1893 ) Alabama Lynching.   Two Murders Strung Up ...

Tensions in the Ware household outside of Berlin, New Jersey, were near the breaking point. On August 16, 1870 they snapped, when a dispu...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Nels Olsen Holong. "Nels Olsen Hulong is another one filling the long list o...

Little Murders   (From  The New York Times,  New York, NY, January 26, 1883 . ) The Murder of Patrick H. Dwyer Recorder Smyth’s...

William James and Denwood Hinds of Baltimore were close friends who had served together in the Fifth Maryland Regiment. The friendship wou...

On September 24, 1843, Lucien Hall murdered Mrs. Lavinia Bacon in Middletown, Connecticut.  I am planning a more detailed post on this mur...

Check out my guest post at Civil War Medicine (and Writing) on Samuel E. Calhoun, who was either a psychopathic killer or the subject of ...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Joe Doran. "Joe Doran was sentenced to a term of sixty years in the penitent...

Mary Pomeroy was the organist at the Prospect Avenue Presbyterian Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1874 she was a beautiful young wo...

Family murders are always the most tragic and inexplicable. Whether the motive is greed, jealousy, or pent up animosity the killer is driven...

Little Murders This headline from the Davenport Daily Leader , December 9, 1894 references two sensational murder cases. The second case...

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders : Mrs. Martin Steinhauser. "In the early part of 1888, Mrs. Martin Steinhauser...

In the autumn of 1882, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Nicholas L. Dukes learned that his fiancée, Lizzie Nutt, had been intimate with other ...

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Little Murders (From The Boston Daily Globe , Boston, Massachusetts, January 1, 1886 ) For Murdering his Mother.   Opening of t...