On December 22, 1871, the little son of Mrs. Paine, of Chelsea, a suburb of Boston, was inveigled by an unknown boy, evidently about twelve years of age, to Powder Horn Hill, near Boston, where he was stripped naked, tied to a beam and beaten with a rope until he become unconscious. The larger […]

  “The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, The Model, and the Murder that Shook The Nation” by Harold Schechter, PhD. Crime historian and author, Harold Schecter PhD, has recently released his tenth historical true crime book, “The Mad Sculptor,” about the 1937 Manhattan murder of a 20 year-old model, her mother and a third individual by […]

  First Published: “The Corpse in Coffee Creek-Secrets of Ohio’s Tragic Triangle,” by Detective Otto H. Diskowski, Homicide Squad, Cleveland Police Department, as told to R. Rodgers, True Detective Mysteries, May, 1938.  Want to read this story later on your tablet? Download PDF File of The Corpse in Coffee Creek CHARLES SALWAY SLOWLY MADE HIS […]