Crime and Scandal
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10.5KIn 1795 Dr. Elisha Phelps Takes a Wife – Or Two
In 1795, Abigail Wheelock looked out the window of her house in Hanover, N.H., to see Suky Eastman stepping out the back...
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8.6K2Who Killed William Dean? A Tale of Spies, Swindlers and Politicians
In August of 1918, Dr. William Dean was murdered. His killer or killers tied up his body and submerged it in a...
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5.0K1J.J. Van Alen Finds a Wife — But Not His Own
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
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3.9KVermont’s Disappearing/Reappearing Catherine Packard
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
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5.4KThe Bull Run Massacre of 1872 – in Connecticut
When two peddlers raised the alarm in Windsor Locks, Conn. about trouble at John Billings tavern, no one was exactly surprised. But...
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4.1K2The Mysterious 1852 Voyage of the Arabian, the Fastest Clipper Ship in Maine
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever built in the state. He’d built...
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14.6K9The 1673 Murder of Rebecca Cornell and the ‘Good Fire’
On the night of February 8, 1673, Thomas Cornell rushed into the sitting room where he had earlier left his mother Rebecca...
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12.1K13Divorce, Murder and Madness: The Puritan Tuttles of the New Haven Colony
William and Elizabeth Tuttle sailed to America in 1635 to become one of the founding families of the New Haven Colony. Arriving...
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6.2K1The Somnambulism Defense: The Sleepwalking Murderer of Pembroke
Doubtless many people are murdered in their sleep. But its not often the would-be murderer is asleep, too, suffering from somnambulism. But...
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5.3K2The Strange Life and Stranger Afterlife of Maine’s Elmer McCurdy
On October 11, 1911 an Oklahoma Sherriff’s posse had Elmer McCurdy on the run. The Maine man – a plumber-turned-outlaw – had...
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