All posts tagged "suicide"
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4.7KCrime and ScandalThe Nutshell Studies: Frances Glessner Lee and the Dollhouses of Death
In 1929, a depressed, divorced 51-year-old society matron decided to take up murder as a hobby. Frances Glessner Lee had just closed...
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5.8KArts and LeisureRebekah Harkness, the Scorned Socialite of Watch Hill, R.I.
Rebekah Harkness spent much of the Standard Oil fortune she inherited on the ballet. Not just going to performances, but sponsoring entire...
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5.5K2Arts and LeisureClover Adams Takes Pictures of Grief (Her Own)
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
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11.8KConnecticutLighthouse Keepers, the Ultimate Social Distancers
Ever since George Worthylike climbed the steps to light the lantern at Boston Light in 1716, lighthouse keepers have practiced an extreme...
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8.3K2Business and LaborHow the Revolutionary Currency Crash Made William Beadle a Mass Murderer
By the opening of the American Revolution, William Beadle was a successful Connecticut merchant and patriot. Before the end of it, he...
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14.0KbostonAvis Linnell, Murdered by Her Minister, Inspires ‘An American Tragedy’
The 1911 murder of a 19-year-old music student, Avis Linnell, in the Boston YWCA was one of the most sensational crimes in...
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