Tag: 1800s
Chapter 17 of “Vintage True Crime Stories V-1,” The Collins Case, Topeka, 1898
[September 7, 2018] Posted below for your consideration is Chapter 17 from the first volume of a new anthology series presented by HCD Publishing entitled, Vintage True Crime Stories: An Illustrated Anthology of Forgotten Cases of Murder & Mayhem, Volume I, 314 pages. The book will be released on Amazon Kindle this coming Monday, September […]
Posted: September 7th, 2018 under Feature Stories, New Books.
Tags: 1800s, Kansas, Patricide
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Charleston’s Most Inhospitable Hosts: The Story of John and Lavinia Fisher
Guest Post by Harry Parsons, Content Manager, Arcadia Publishing We all know the horror film trope: the motel, the inn, the guesthouse at the side of the road that is, for some reason, curiously empty. The friendly, welcoming, eager proprietors who usher you in and tell you to make yourself at home, but somehow […]
Posted: August 18th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1800s, bizarre
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Criminal Slang Dictionary for 1890 to 1919
890 Words & Phrases used by Criminals
In 1910, if someone said they were “blowing the peter,” — it’s not what you’re thinking. From approximately 1890 to 1919, that term meant they were going to the door off a safe to rob it, and the person doing it was called “a yeggman,” slang for safe robber. If someone said they wanted to […]
Posted: June 27th, 2017 under Uncategorized.
Tags: 1800s, 1900-1919
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New Book: Unwanted: A Murder Mystery of the Gilded Age, by Andrew Young
A Sensational Crime and Trial that Confronted Racism, Sexism, and Privilege as America Took to the World Stage On the foggy, cold morning of February 1, 1896, a boy came upon what he thought was a pile of clothes. It was soon discovered to be the headless body of a young woman, brutally butchered and […]
Posted: October 27th, 2016 under New Books.
Tags: 1800s
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Guest Feature Story: Murder and Masonry, 1890, by Dr. Barry Morton
Special Guest Feature Story by: Dr. Barry Morton: At few times in its history has the small town of Crawfordsville, Indiana ever been more regularly in the spotlight than it was between the autumn of 1889 through November 1890. The Pettit murder trial, “the most publicized case in this period,” began with published rumors of […]
Posted: August 24th, 2016 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1800s, Indiana, Murder, Wife Killer
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