Category: Murder
15-Year-Old Boy Confessed to Putting Rat Poison in His Family’s Coffee
A series of mysterious illnesses in a California family took a horrifying turn in August 1912 when authorities questioned a 15-year-old boy and, according to…
Indiana Man Kills One Brother, Wounds Another, Then Refuses to Speak
A 70-year-old Indiana man sat silently in a jail cell in April 1928 after a street shooting left one man dead and his brother critically…
North Dakota Father Searched for Answers After His Son Was Killed Beneath Railroad Cars
When G.F. Heath’s young son was killed beneath a string of railroad cars near Apple Creek, grief initially left him unable to question how the…
Two Teachers Found Dead Inside an Exclusive Boston Finishing School
For years, Elizabeth Bailey Hardee and Sarah Chamberlain Weed had followed remarkably similar paths. Both graduated from Wellesley College, became teachers, and eventually joined together…
Toddler Survived Six Days in Freezing Home With Two Murder Victims
For six days, 3-year-old Billy Huffstickle remained trapped inside a freezing Indiana farmhouse with the bodies of his murdered aunt and uncle. Weak from hunger,…
Michigan Policeman Walked Into the Station and Shot His Captain Through the Heart
Policeman Isaac Lewis entered the Jackson police station on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday and walked directly into the office of Captain Holzapfel. Moments later, the…
Chicago Killer Confessed to 25 Murders and Called Himself a “Lover of Death”
Chicago detectives already believed Henry Spencer responsible for several brutal murders when he delivered an even more astonishing confession in October 1913. After being questioned…
Police Believed a Bootlegger Threw a Virginia Teen Into the River After Hitting Him
Seventeen-year-old Elwood Hudgins was found drowned in Virginia’s Indian River, but police believed his death had begun on the bridge above. Their theory was that…
New York Girl, 14, Killed by Stone Meant for Someone Else
Fourteen-year-old Rosie Grippo was sitting on the stoop of her New York City tenement when a quarrel that had nothing to do with her suddenly…
1903 Execution at Sing Sing Took Five Electric Shocks
Antonio Triola was led into the death room at Sing Sing prison smiling. It was 1903, and he had been sentenced to die in the…
