All posts tagged "poison"
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49.8K6MassachusettsJolly Jane Toppan, the Killer Nurse Obsessed With Death
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
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5.8K5ConnecticutConnecticut Mystery: The Unsolved Murder of Jerusha Brewster
Amos and Jerusha Brewster of Norwich, Conn., married in 1761, and would both die famously: he in a battle that helped turn...
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12.0K5Crime and ScandalJennie Cramer – New Haven’s “Beautiful Victim” of 1881
Jennie Cramer and her mother Christina had an awful fight on Thursday, August 4, 1881. Jennie and her friend Blanche Douglass had...
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8.8K1Business and LaborHow Maine’s Samuel Mayall Brought America its First Woolen Mill
Samuel Mayall didn’t just bring the first woolen mill to America. He gave Maine two of its first businesswomen, and a statesman...
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