Crime and Scandal
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9.6KThe Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
In April 1818, the discovery that a body snatcher had removed eight human bodies from their final resting place shocked the people...
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9.3KNew Hampshire’s Infanticides of 1739
The discovery of New Hampshire’s infanticides began on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1739, when someone discovered a dead infant girl in a well...
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6.7KThe Double Life of Railroad King Robert Schuyler
Robert Schuyler was one of the most respected men of his era, the last person likely to pull off one of the...
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26.7K9Six Places Where A Gallows Once Stood
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
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8.3KCharles Lindbergh Hides Out in Maine
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...
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7.1K9Nathaniel Eaton, the Sadistic Puritan Who Made Harvard Disappear for a Year
Harvard University got off to a rough start in 1638, when Nathaniel Eaton and his wife led such a reign of terror...
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