August 7, 2017
SUCKING THE MONKEY Marston’s coopers posing with their casks in 19th century by Richard Jones Did you know that it used to Read more…
July 31, 2017
The Thames Torso Murders of 1887-89 by Gerard Spicer Dismemberment Murders While Jack the Ripper’s knife tore the social fabric of Victorian London to shreds another murder series played out, seemingly unnoticed, in the background. Dubbed the “Thames Mysteries” or Read more…
July 17, 2017
Bridgeport Murder Case In September 1898, the mutilated body of a young woman was found in a pond in Bridgeport, Conncecticut. Her name—let alone the name of her murderer—remained a complete mystery until Frank Perkins, a resident of Middleborough, Read more…
July 10, 2017
The Lambeth Poisoner Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Between October 1891 and April 1892 a series of murders in London racked the city with a terror reminiscent of the fear surrounding Jack the Ripper’s murders, just three years earlier. Once again Read more…
July 5, 2017
The Pimlico Poisoning Mystery Adelaide Blanche de la Tremoille was 19 when she married successful grocer Thomas Edwin Bartlett (29 and known as Edwin) in 1875. It would seem that theirs was not a happy marriage with some Read more…
June 26, 2017
THE LONDON GARROTTING PANIC OF THE MID-19TH CENTURY June 24, 2015 Karl Smallwood Although crime in England’s capital was on the decline in the mid-19th century, thanks in part to the relatively recent formation of the London Metropolitan Police Force Read more…
June 19, 2017
The Golden Crown The first known use of forensics to solve a crime. In the first century BC the Roman architect Vitruvius related a story of how Archimedes uncovered a fraud in the manufacture of a Read more…
June 13, 2017
Forensic Ballistics: Who Did The Shooting? A real treat for fans of early forensics. An actual piece written by one of the early giants in the field of Forensic Ballistics. By Calvin H. Goddard (1927) In a county Read more…
June 9, 2017
For 10 years, ‘Jolly Jane’ poured her poison By Jennifer Myers, “ANGEL OF DEATH”: After her arrest in 1901, Jane Toppan admitted to 31 killings. She later said it may have over 100. The picnic along the Cape Cod Read more…
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