Category: Murder
4 Bodies Found Hanging in Trees
Not a day went by in the early 1900s when a body was not discovered hanging in a tree. Many of the deaths were self…
5 Brutal Cases of Bodies Found in Closets
As children we were sometimes afraid of what might be in the closet, but it turns out that bodies in the closet are a real…
6 Cases of Bodies Being Found in the Cellar
There is a reason why cellars are scary and that is because it is where you hide the dead bodies. No, seriously. The cellar is…
Gruesome Things That Happened on the Delaware River Long Ago
Gruesome things have happened along, inside, and over the Delaware River. Plenty of bodies were fishes out of the waters and it was a common…
The Tragic Murder of Marie Wick in Fargo 1921
Murder in the early 1900s was just as brutal as it is today, as in the case of Marie Wick, a young woman murdered in…
5 Early Methods of The Third Degree
In the early 1900s, The Third Degree came to be known as the method used by the police to extract a confession from a suspect….
The Unsolved Witchcraft Murder of Charles Walton
On February 14, 1945, the body of Charles Walton was found brutally murdered on a farm named The Firs. Why was he murdered and was…
10 Frightening Strychnine Cases From the Past
Strychnine is a bitter poison that is commonly used to kill pests, such as rats, birds, and rabbits. At one time, all one had to…
Live Burial as a Form of Execution in Early Germany
From the mid-thirteenth to the sixteenth century, the southern German territories practiced live burials. Initially, men who were convicted of being sodomites, rapists, and men…
7 Cases of Deadly Pitchfork Stabbings
Getting fatally stabbed by a pitchfork does not only happen in B-rated horror movies. In fact, pitchfork deaths were once fairly common throughout Europe, and…
