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The "Servant Girl Annihilator"
Jack the Ripper is an enduring monument to the powers of a good press agent. The anonymous fiend's lingering, and likely eternal, stature as his…
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Newspaper Clipping of the Day
Here is a case of, as the headline put it, a "Singular discovery of a murder by dreaming." This story appeared in the "London Star&qu…
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Murder in Euclid Heights
William Lowe Rice was, on the surface at least, a classic American success story. The 47-year-old attorney and housing developer rose out of obscuri…
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Newspaper Clipping of the Day
This sad story--which somehow seems so characteristic of the Depression era--is one of the most curious poisoning cases I know. This particular acco…
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Newspaper Clipping of the Day
via Newspapers.com If you want to write a screenplay for a horror movie centered around a Boy Scout camping trip, this would be an excellent way to s…
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Weldon Atherstone's Final Performance
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." ~William Shakespeare, "Othello&q…
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Starr Crossed
"Avaunt! avaunt! from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven— From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven— From grief and groan, t…
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Mrs. Harvey and Her Mummy
Sarah Jane Harvey In 1960, if you had asked any resident of the Welsh town of Rhyl who their most average, unexciting, unremarkable resident might be…
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Newspaper Clipping of the Day
Here we have a very strange death from 1909. Mrs. Jessie Culbertson of Vincennes, Indiana, had been a bride for only three months when she was found…
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The Contentious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
A Justice of the Peace named Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey came to a violent end. Three men were eventually executed for his murder. What makes Godfrey&…
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Murder in Euclid Heights
William Lowe Rice was, on the surface at least, a classic American success story. The 47-year-old attorney and housing developer rose out of obscuri…
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