Crime and Scandal
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6.5KThe Boon Island Cannibals of Maine
On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...
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12.1KA Sad Condition: Wilmot Redd and the Salem Witch Trials
In 1692, Wilmot Redd died on the gallows because her neighbors didn’t like her. Redd (or Reed/Read, by some accounts) was the...
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4.4KNew England Witchcraft Trials: It Wasn’t Just Salem
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
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4.0KIn 1919, A Private Detective Nailed the Murderer of Lucina Broadwell
When Barre, Vt., police in 1919 first saw the naked body of Lucina Broadwell in a vacant lot, they immediately suspected her...
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2.9KThe Legend of Deep River’s XYZ Bank Robber
The letters XYZ are chiseled into a small grave marker in a corner of a cemetery in Deep River, Conn. Underneath lies...
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4.1K1Sacco and Vanzetti, Guilty After All?
When a judge sentenced two Italian anarchists named Sacco and Vanzetti to die for a crime they said they didn’t commit, an...
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5.1K1The Hardscrabble Riot of 1824 Makes Providence a City
In 1824, several hundred white people tore down about 20 homes occupied by black people in a mixed neighborhood called Hardscrabble in...
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4.1KWilliam Whitney Swaps a Mistress With J.P. Morgan
Bar Harbor in its Gilded Age heyday was a place where the moneyed class could fool around without the prying eyes of...
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4.5K1Bar Harbor Babylon: Billionaires Behaving Badly in Maine’s Premier Resort
Bar Harbor Babylon, just released by Down East Books, takes you inside Maine’s premier summer resort during its heyday. What happened there...
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