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...

Dr. John W. Hughes was a restless, intemperate man whose life never ran smoothly. When his home life turned sour, he found love with a woman...

A boatman working near the foot of Little Street in Brooklyn, on October 3, 1864, saw a package floating on the water. Thinking it might con...

Benjamin and Mary Merrill lived with their four-year-old son on Illinois Street in Chicago, where they ran a boarding house. During the day,...

Joseph Blair of Montclair, New Jersey, had a vicious argument with his coachman, John Armstrong, on June 26, 1879. Blair was angry that some...

When the press learned that Lydia Sherman had poisoned three husbands and eight children, they called her “The Arch Murderess of Connecticut...

  A young woman entered the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of January 30, 1865. She went to the office of the Comptr...

Illustrated Police News , February 28, 1885. Joseph Crue returned from work to his home in Groton, Massachusetts, on January 18, 1880, and f...

  Bertha Levy entered the house at 111 Prince Street, Manhattan, just before 10:00 a.m. on January 18, 1880. She was a hairdresser, and sh...

In 2014, Murder by Gaslight posted Unsolved , a collection of 19 th -century murders that had never been fully explained. The list inclu...

Around 3:00, on the afternoon of June 15, 1886, a bellboy heard gunshots while responding to a prolonged ring from room 25 on the second flo...

James Fisk Jr. was a robber baron, stock manipu...

As Police Officers Henry Johnson and Eli Veazie were leaving the Chelsea, Massachusetts City Marshal’s office on the evening of February 17,...