True crime is not a modern obsession. Long before television documentaries reconstructed murders in painstaking detail, long...
Crimes and Criminals
Unusual crimes and the criminals who enact them.
In the Covent Garden portion of London, a tavern once stood that gained a reputation for causing...
For years, Major Thomas Weir seemed to be one of the last men in Edinburgh anyone would...
There may be no town in the American West with a name better suited to becoming haunted....
Few private homes in America are as instantly recognizable as the house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville,...
You check into a motel late at night. The room isn’t wonderful, but it will do. You...
Few names from the early history of Southwest Virginia acquired a reputation quite like Bob Benge. To...
Prisons are built to keep people from leaving. Perhaps that is why stories about those who never...
Katherine Grady never reached Virginia. We know almost nothing about her life. We do not know where...
Few women in the history of colonial South America acquired a reputation as terrible as that of...