Category: Murder

After someone made his appointment with the National Razor (guillotine), he was whisked away from the scene and taken to a burial ground where family…

I have written about decapitated heads that bite, but I have not touched on the eyes of decapitated heads moving. There is a lot of…

Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine waged a verbal war against the barbaric use of axes and swords to execute criminals, but he had very little else…

How did countries execute criminals in 1895? Surprisingly (or not), a Michigan newspaper published the following statistics that year: Modes of Execution Spain – garrote…

Patrick Quinlan was at the H.H. Holmes murder castle when the murders were taking place, but he claimed he knew nothing of the matter. Below,…

Put on any B-rated horror movie and someone is bound to be swinging an axe, but just how prolific are axe murders? Truthfully, we rarely…

Jesse Pomeroy was Boston’s infamous teenage fiend and murderer. His crimes, committed in the late 1800s, were so shocking that they landed the teenage boy…

Icepicks are deadly weapons and were rather popular in the early half of the 1900s. In fact, many assaults were committed by people who would…

As electric chairs were first being installed in the United States, beginning in New York, people were assured that this was the pleasant way to…

Just about anything can be picked up and used as a weapon, from umbrellas to hammers. In the past, as opposed to the present day,…