Tag: New York
First Person Friday: Confessions of a 1950s Porn Star
Story by Tracy B (anonymous), aka “Racy Tracy” Writing from some unknown women’s prison in New Jersey or New York Article originally appeared in Expose Detective, January 1959 Editor’s Note: Although I don’t know all the laws and statutes of that era, the production, distribution, and presentation of pornographic material in the 1950s […]
Posted: July 14th, 2017 under Feature Stories, First Person Friday.
Tags: 1950s, Confession Story, New York, Sex Crimes, Women
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The Chinatown Trunk Murder: Christian Missionary’s Love Triangle has Fatal Consequence, 1909
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Posted: June 16th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Love and Jealousy, Love Triangle, Murder, New York, unsolved, Women
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Photo Gallery of NYC Murder Victims, 1915-1920
Warning: Gallery contains very graphic photos. The New York City Department of Records has a great collection of photographs related to all things early 20th Century New York City. Among their different categories are photographs related to crime, criminals, criminal identification, and most interesting of all, Murder—as in dead bodies. During the early 20th Century, […]
Posted: July 1st, 2016 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1900-1919, Love and Jealousy, Murder, New York
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Serial Killer James Turner, Active 1954-1975, New York & Florida
Serial Killer James Turner James Turner is an almost entirely unknown suspected serial killer linked to the murders and ‘accidental deaths’ of seven friends, coworkers, and family members in which he was the beneficiary of their life insurance policies. He was active for a twelve-year period between 1963 and 1975, when he was arrested on […]
Posted: January 26th, 2015 under Serial Killers Anonymous, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Florida, Murder, New York, Serial Killer
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Serial Killer ‘Texas Jim’ Baker, Part Two
. Click Here to Read Part One — Or Click Here to Read All in One with Bibliography The Investigation After Baker left, the two men loosened their ropes and discovered Gaw’s body while searching for a telephone to call police. Detectives and lab supervisors were able to piece together that Gaw’s killer must be […]
Posted: November 13th, 2014 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1920s, New York, Serial Killer
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