Take a wildly successful businessman, a patriarch of an extensive family, a beloved city leader. Add one beautiful seaside setting, a pinch of elite vacationers, and throw in a curious lack of witnesses: for Adolph Coors Sr.,...
On a bitterly cold day in December 1909, eight-year-old Alma Kellner simply disappeared from the altar of St. John's Church in Louisville. Her body was found months later near the site of the church, and news...
In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, Washington rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders followed, drawing the attention of multiple police agencies as...
When we think of getaway cars, certain famous images spring to mind: Bonnie and Clyde’s rickety jalopy, for instance. Or a sleek 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, which Burt Reynolds used to evade the law in spectacular...
Self-taught Sherlock: Woodstock's Amateur Detective
In his book Woodstock’s Infamous Murder Trial: Early Racial Injustice in Upstate New York, author Richard Heppner explores one of the first major crimes to strike the sleepy village...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....