Category: Murder | US
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks. / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one. The schoolyard rhyme is wrong on almost every count. Abby Borden was not Lizzie’s…
The Son Of Sam
For thirteen months between July 1976 and August 1977, a man with a .44 calibre revolver shot couples in parked cars across the outer boroughs of New York City. He killed six people and wounded seven. He wrote letters to…
H.H. Holmes
He is often called America’s first serial killer, the man who built a hotel of horrors to murder hundreds of fairgoers at the Chicago World’s Fair. The reality is darker in some ways and far smaller in others. This is…
