In August of 1918, Dr. William Dean was murdered. His killer or killers tied up his body and submerged it in a...
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
In August of 1929, police in Chester, Vt., discovered the body of a young woman buried in a grove of spruce trees....
When two peddlers raised the alarm in Windsor Locks, Conn. about trouble at John Billings tavern, no one was exactly surprised. But...
In 1852 James Hinds, a ship builder in Calais, Maine, launched the fastest clipper ship ever produced in the state. He’d built...
On the night of February 8, 1673, Thomas Cornell rushed into the sitting room where he had earlier left his mother Rebecca...
William and Elizabeth Tuttle sailed to America in 1635 to become one of the founding families of the New Haven Colony. Arriving...
Doubtless many people are murdered in their sleep. But its not often the would-be murderer is asleep, too, suffering from somnambulism. But...
On October 11, 1911 an Oklahoma Sherriff’s posse had Elmer McCurdy on the run. The Maine man – a plumber-turned-outlaw – had...
Life on a ship in the 1850s was neither democratic nor easy. The captain made the rules and punishments were fierce. In...