Category: U.S. Historical News

In the autumn of 1913, a grim discovery in an Indiana cornfield led authorities to a husband who had suddenly vanished with his two young…

In September 1913, the discovery of a mangled body on railroad tracks outside Chicago appeared at first to be a tragic railway accident. But a…

In the spring of 1925, Washington, D.C., found itself in the grip of a growing smallpox outbreak. Health officials were scrambling to contain the disease…

In January 1909, a grim discovery inside a Baltimore home shocked neighbors and baffled investigators. What began as a child’s frantic claim that his grandmother…

In the summer of 1907, New York City was gripped by fear. Newspapers warned of a spreading “crime wave,” police chased leads that went nowhere,…

A grisly discovery on an Illinois Central freight car left residents near Milan, Tennessee, struggling to explain what had happened.  The armless and headless body…

The murder of Professor Oscar B. Turner stunned Louisiana State University. Turner’s body was discovered inside the university’s Agronomy Building, badly mutilated by blows from…

At first glance, the death of 19-year-old Maynard Bixby might have appeared to be a terrible railroad accident. His body was found on the Michigan…

Elmira, Ohio, was thrown into terror in the early hours of the morning when a gang of heavily armed robbers swept into town and turned…

In the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania, where whole towns lived by the whistle of the mines, the question of a miner’s wage was never…