β Scribed by Bill Bowers
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The colt-Adams affair (1842) -- Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge (1847) -- The bloody Benders family (1870s) -- The Lamana kidnapping and the New Orleans Black Hand -- The murder of Grace Mae Brown -- The Mansfield Walworth parricide -- Laura Bullion and the wild bunch -- Henrietta Robinson, the veiled murderess -- The Mountain Meadows massacre -- Rachel Wall, pirate and robber (1780s) -- Madame Delphine LaLaurie, New Orleans monster (1834) -- The Beadle family murder-suicide (1782) -- The Antoine Probst ax murders(1847) -- Slobbery Jim & the Daybreak Gang (1850s) -- Abraham Lincoln's remarkable case -- Harry T. Hayward, the "Minneapolis Svengali" (1870s-1890s) -- Belle Sorenson Gunness, serial killer (1860s) -- Notorious Brothers Felipe Nerio Espinosa and Jose Vivian (1840s) -- The Loomis gang (1850s) -- Jimmy Logue and Alphonso Cutaiar, career criminals (1850-1880s).
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