In 1908, police in New Hampshire drew up a complaint against Madelon Kenmore, a woman they knew as Madelon Coburn. The charge...
In April 1818, the discovery that a body snatcher had removed eight human bodies from their final resting place shocked the people...
The discovery of New Hampshire’s infanticides began on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1739, when someone discovered a dead infant girl in a well...
Robert Schuyler was one of the most respected men of his era, the last person likely to pull off one of the...
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
The kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby rocked the world in 1932. But three years earlier it was Lindbergh's sister-in-law who faced...
Harvard University got off to a rough start in 1638, when Nathaniel Eaton and his wife led such a reign of terror...
Prohibition in Vermont started early. Liquor officially became illegal in parts of Vermont in the early 1800s, with towns demanding the right...
The story of the curse of Mercie Dale begins around 1800 in Braintree, Mass. Mercie's daughter Silence had married William Hayden in...
Lydia Sherman had an unfortunate addiction to murder. She went on a decades-long killing spree in New York and Connecticut, poisoning at...