A teenage serial killer! How much more depraved and demented does it get! Where was the Social Services department in 1871 Boston? Where were the court-ordered parenting classes? The absentee father? (His family was better off without him!) And wher…
1927 was a banner year in Roaring Twenties; Jazz Age America; the first trans-Atlantic telephone call; Lindbergh’s solo trans-Atlantic flight. In Michigan, the deadly Bath school-house bombing claimed four dozen lives. In Massachusetts, six ye…
As with all elements of society, the criminal element has its fads, its trends, its innovators and its copycats. In the early 2000s, home invasion robberies were all the rage. Today, internet identity theft is trending with hi-tech hoodlums. For low…
This case is set in a niche of American history when the nation was in transition from the upheaval of the Civil War/Reconstruction era into the period known as The Gilded Age. The latter term refers to a time of great economic growth that pro…
Families can be fun…even when they’re fatal! This is a delightfully bizarre little murder ditty, The Wicked Wardlaw Women and the Mysterious Death of Ocey Snead (Case #2 in the Murder, Mischief & Mayhem podcast series). Set in East…
