The murderous tennis player
Vere Thomas Goold, better known as “St. Leger,” was not only a brilliant tennis player, but also a treacherous murderer.…
The first woman to die in the electric chair: Martha M. Place
The story of Martha M. Place is a tragic and dark episode in American criminal history, culminating in her final…
The sinister doctor: The sinister legacy of Thomas Neill Cream, one of the first serial killers
Thomas Neill Cream, better known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Canadian doctor and serial killer who poisoned his victims…
The alleged female Jack the Ripper: Mary Eleanor Wheeler
Mary Eleanor Wheeler was a cold-blooded murderer. She was born in 1866 to Mary Eleanor Wheeler and Thomas Wheeler, but…
The Champagne Murder
October 31, 1928, was a day of horror in the small village of Glannes. Albert Clarisse, a wandering basket maker…
The brutal murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury
850 years ago, on December 29, 1170, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, was brutally murdered by four knights in…