Archive for September, 2013
Army Wife Acquitted for Murder of Horrible Husband in 1955
Wife Accused of Mate’s Murder Sobs Out Details [Sendai, Japan, Aug. 6, 1955] — An attractive 26 year-old Army wife on trial for her life yesterday told an Army court-martial through shuddering sobs how the husband she Is accused of murdering bragged of his lurid sex life, beat her end threatened the lives of her […]
Posted: September 26th, 2013 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1950s, Domestic Violence, Women
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The Genesis of the Lie-Detector Test
. Told he was dying from a heat stroke, Fuller Schallenberger confessed on a hot summer day in July 1913, that he and another man, Charles Kopf, murdered Julian Behaud in 1899 at the victim’s home in Julian, Nebraska. When Schallenberger awoke the next morning, he was well on his way to recovering. Unfortunately, he […]
Posted: September 24th, 2013 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1900-1919, Nebraska
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Handsome Jack Hill Was a Woman, 1913
Update to this story posted on May 16, 2018: Earlier this year, a graduate student in cinema directing at Columbia College in Chicago discovered this unique story of two women who married in small town Colorado in 1913. For her, this story connected with her own struggles in her native Russia. After reading about this […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2013 under Recent News, Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1900-1919, bizarre, Colorado, Women
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2 Cars, 6 People Missing 43 & 44 years Found at Bottom of Lake in Oklahoma
Skeletal remains of six people missing since 1969 and 1970 were found in two cars at the bottom of Foss Lake, Custer County, Oklahoma Tuesday afternoon (Sept 17, 2013) after authorities found their two submerged automobiles with new sonar they had been testing. The first car pulled from the lake was a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro […]
Posted: September 18th, 2013 under Recent News, Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: Missing Persons, Oklahoma
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Freshman Hazing Ends in Death, 1918
Re-posted From: New Albany Evening Tribune, Sept. 14, 1918, page 1. Raleigh, N.C. Sept. 14, 1918 —Upon the charge of murder, four terror stricken youths stood defendants in court, the result of the hazing of Isaac William Rand, Bon of a prominent lumberman of Smithfleld, North Carolina. The accused are sophomores at the University of […]
Posted: September 13th, 2013 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1900-1919, bizarre, Juvenile
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True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders
Classic True Crime, Hollywood Style While viewers were captivated by the drama playing out on the silver screen, the lives of the stars of these film noir classics were often far more exciting. Uncover true stories of mystery and murder in a dozen different chapters featuring William Desmond Taylor, Thomas Ince, Jean Harlow, Thelma […]
Posted: September 12th, 2013 under New Books.
Tags: New Book
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Kardashian Murdered in 1916
In 1916, Newton, Massachusetts tailor Manoog Kardashian was attacked by one of his employees who stabbed him with cutting shears and bit a chunk out of his right cheek over what may be one of the dumbest reasons to assault someone. Kardashian died nine days later, but not necessarily from his wounds. I came across […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2013 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1900-1919, Massachusetts, Murder, Workplace Violence
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