Beware the Headless Miser of Sanford, Florida: Sam McMillan
Florida, late 1800s, right in the middle of Reconstruction. Imagine yourself arriving at the station in your new town, gazing out at the miles...
You Are Feeling Very Sleepy
What do you do when you run out of leads? When, in the middle of an investigation, all your evidence has been exhausted, everything new turns up a...
One of the most compelling sources of contemporary horror is the phenomenon of serial killers. From true crime to horror fiction, as a nation, we obsess over these terrifying, fascinating figures. Just look at some of the most iconic horror...
As heard on the My Favorite Murder Podcast: The Baddest of them All: The Burger Chef Murders
That Friday night in 1978 should have been like any...
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....
The Strange Shadows Murder Casts
As we here at Crime Capsule have explored before, it’s no secret that crime scenes quickly become destinations for more than just law enforcement and investigators. Tourists, snoops,...
The following story was inspired by Murder in Chisago County: The Unsolved Johnson Family Mystery by Brian Johnson, who chronicles the investigation of his great-uncle Albin Johnson and the still-unsolved, suspicious death of Albin's wife Alvira and...
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...
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...
We here at CrimeCapsule.com love a good urban legend, especially when it’s tied to something nice and nefarious. Time and distance have a way of twisting and distorting facts that to our minds is just irresistible: both...