Category: Murder
Anne Greene was Hanged and Lived
I have written a few articles about England’s hangmen, but today I want to take a look at someone who dangled and lived to tell…
Clergy Used the Neck Verse to Escape the Gallows
The benefit of clergy, more commonly known as the neck verse, was an English law that allowed the clergy to get out of being punished…
Hangman William Marwood
Like hangman Calcraft, Marwood’s first trade was shoemaker, but in 1872, when he was 54 years old, he asked the governor of Lincoln Castle Gaol…
Iron Crown Torture
Scottish nobleman, Walter Stewart, was believed to have wanted the crown of King James I of Scotland for himself, but when he was found complicit…
US Lethal Gas Executions
Most of us have heard stories about hangings in the Old West, the firing squads in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah, the electric chair, and the…
The Automatic Gallows of Colorado and Connecticut
Before 1889, Colorado hangings were public and gruesome. Those condemned to die by hanging sometimes twitched and kicked about on the end of a rope…
Crimes and Execution of Henri Landru – The French Bluebeard
Executed by guillotine on February 25, 1922, at the age of 52, Henri Landru was known as the French Bluebeard. He was a serial killer…
Murder Mystery of Nellie Byers
Nellie Byers, a 24 year old school teacher from Grant County, Kansas, left the school house shortly after 4pm on October 22, 1915. She made…
Execution Dock of London
For over 400 years, bodies hung from the gallows located on the foreshore of the River Thames, in Wapping, London. They were the bodies of…
Killer Kid Willie Zimmer
While reading through a Louisiana newspaper from 1916, I found the story of Willie Zimmer, the boy murderer. A quick Google search showed me that…
