Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. If only that were true for so many women throughout history: women accused of crimes they didn’t commit, women whose eccentric ways fomented suspicion...
Golden-haired
maiden. Radiant young mother. Seasoned jailbreaker. Feared outcast. Talented
healer and sympathetic goodwife—and last but not least, murderous witch. In her
years upon this earth, the mysterious Maria Hallett of Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
lived a startling number of lives. But...
Here on Crime Capsule, we don’t beat around the bush. Empires come and empires go, but if there’s one timeless truth throughout the ages, it’s this: sex sells. And in the lurid Idaho brothels of the small...
As you know, we here at Crime Capsule love a good, solid crook. The more flagrant, the better: in recent weeks we’ve been pleased to showcase Sacramento’s most salacious citizens, and more recently, we took a look...
Missouri is known for many culinary delights—the famous gooey butter cake of St Louis, the refreshing beers of the Budweiser brewery, the list goes on and on. For aficionados of the Show-Me State’s hearty, filling cuisine, influenced...
You can still see them out there every day. The clusters of people on the sidewalk, gathered in front of a large house on the eastern side of the French Quarter, listening to their black-caped tour guide....
How an Ohio girl called Axis Sally became the voice of the Nazis
In the early 1940s in Europe, new battlefields were emerging
in ways that far outpaced previous conflicts. Sustained air campaigns...