In 1779, Sarah and Samuel Higgins lived with their three young children in Killingworth, Connecticut. Their family...
Crimes and Criminals
Unusual crimes and the criminals who enact them.
For generations, a massive white oak stood outside New Holland, Georgia, near the edge of a swamp....
About 80 miles southwest of Kodiak lies one of Alaska’s more isolated islands. Chirikof Island has a...
During the early morning hours of June 2, 2007, something happened outside a small apartment on Linden...
As the strange events surrounding the Bell family continued, family members and their enslaved workers reported seeing...
In 1897, Chicago became captivated by one of the most sensational murder cases the city had ever...
For centuries, people believed the dead could identify their own murderers. The practice was known as the...
Few figures in Scottish history acquired a reputation quite as sinister as Lord William Soulis II. Remembered...
In 1598, a French tailor was condemned for crimes so horrifying that authorities attempted to erase him...
Deep in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, near the community of Pocahontas in Tazewell County, there once...