Having chased gangsters across the desert with historian Parker Anderson, we’re thrilled to sit down with author, curator, and artist Kelly Hartman, whose new book Murder along the Yellowstone Trail: The Execution of Seth Danner has just...
Atlanta, the largest city in the Southeast, hides a dark and violent past. Was there really an Atlanta Ripper, or just a series...
Quarantine.
Self-isolation. Social distancing. Whatever you like to call it, as people
across the country adjust to new guidelines to combat the coronavirus, the core
message from medical authorities remains to stay at home, away from large groups
of people. At...
Perhaps
the only thing Americans love more than the story of a murder is a song about
one. Many of our readers know the beloved tune “Mack the Knife,” a tale of a
murderous thief passed down in song for...
On Sunday, April 5, HBO premiered a new documentary series on the Atlanta Child Murders: a terrifying period between 1979 and 1981 when at least 30 African-American children and young men disappeared without a trace or were...
In 1914, Poland, New York, was a picturesque slice of small-town America. But that innocence was shattered with the shocking murder of beloved schoolteacher Lida Beecher at the hands of her former student Jean Gianini....
Henry Debosnys: madman? Genius? Murderer? The truth, incredibly, is still out there.
A
pictographic language inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics. A blend of six
languages, among them Latin, Portuguese, and Greek. A collection of strange and
mournful sketches,...
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...
Previously on Crime Capsule, we took a look at what happens when the dead begin to speak: when DNA evidence helps to convict a criminal, and how that evidence can change the course of a case. As...
It
was almost the perfect crime. Stabbed forty-four times, sixteen-year-old Tina
Faelz had been murdered in a tucked-away blind spot of Pleasanton, California, her
body found in a drainage ditch just a stone’s throw away from her home. No
witnesses to...