Drinking on the Deadly Job: Last Call Leads to Last Words
Despite having taken place nearly seventy years ago, the murder of JoAnn Dewey remains one of the more infamous crimes ever...
Re-investigating Death on the Devil’s Teeth
What do you do when a case goes cold? When you run out of witnesses, when the evidence offers no new answers, when all avenues of investigation...
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...
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...
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...
Friends, we’ve seen some twists in our day. The broken-down car in the getaway plot, or the Mafioso who ended up kidnapping himself. But this one—we admit, we never saw this one coming.
At...
Henry Debosnys: madman? Genius? Murderer? The truth, incredibly, is still out there.
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pictographic language inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics. A blend of six
languages, among them Latin, Portuguese, and Greek. A collection of strange and
mournful sketches,...
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...
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....
It’s said that of all the methods of execution, the gallows is one of the more humane ways to die. Similar in some ways to the guillotine, if the procedure is properly performed (and we know that...