In 1849, a gruesome crime in London captured the public’s attention and left a lasting mark on history. Marie Manning, née de Roux, was born in Switzerland in 1821 and later emigrated to Great Britain. There she worked as a maid for the wealthy...
Murder Mysteries
The story of William Corder, better known as the “Red Barn Murder,” continues to fascinate people even after almost 200 years. This bloody episode from England not only led to one of the most sensational trials of the century, but also to a curious...
The mysterious murder of Julia Bulette: Virginia’s most famous prostitute and her gruesome end
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In the 1860s, the glittering lights and foggy alleys of Virginia City in the US state of Nevada concealed not only the fortune seekers hoping to strike it rich with the Comstock Lode silver discovery, but also dark secrets. One of these revolves around...
One of the most sinister criminal cases in the history of Houston, the fourth largest city in America in the state of Texas, is the murder of Fred and Edwina Rogers. It was June 23, 1965, when Marvin Marlin, Edwina and Fred’s nephew, called...
One of the most brutal serial killers in Canadian history is undoubtedly Robert Pickton. He ran a pig farm in Port Coquitlam and killed his victims, mostly prostitutes, shredded them with a grinder, and then either fed them to his pigs or processed them...
Richard Fran Biegenwald, better known as the Thrill Killer, was a notorious American serial killer. Between 1958 and 1983, he killed at least nine people in Monmouth County, New Jersey. However, Biegenwald’s dark history is much more than just an anecdote about a handful...
