Crime and Scandal
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9.5KWhen John Alden Went to Jail for Murder
Most school children know the story of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, but few know that he went to jail for murder....
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8.1KElizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett Starts the 1st Scandal in Greenwich
Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett started the first scandal in Greenwich, Conn., over – what else? – infidelity and real estate. The...
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7.4KJesse Pomeroy in 1874 Does the Unthinkable – Twice
In 1874, Jesse Pomeroy was sentenced to death for murdering at least two children. For the next 50 years America was fascinated...
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9.6KJohn C. Colt, Samuel Colt’s “Bad” Brother, Commits a Macabre Murder
Too bad John Colt didn’t use one of his brother Sam’s revolvers to kill Samuel Adams in 1841. If he had, Samuel...
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14.0KThe 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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20.8KA 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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