Navigating the Heartache WWI Brings
The silence of a small New England town was shattered on the afternoon of August 4, 1892. Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, were brutally murdered with an ax. No one heard anything while the crime was being committed, but the media sensation it caused was heard across the country. Maid Bridget Sullivan was…
Decades before O.J. Simpson was charged with the murder of his ex-wife, there was another court case labeled “the trial of the century”. The case was known as the Thaw-White Murder, and it involved everything that makes crimes compelling to the general public – a celebrity, salacious sex and jealousy. Evelyn Nesbit The celebrity at…
Today, it’s called the Villisca ax murder house, but in the early 1910s, it was known simply as the home of the Moore family. Villisca is a sleepy town in southwestern Iowa that became the scene of a gruesome crime the night of June 9, 1912. That night, an unknown assailant snuck into the home…
I was excited to see that Erik Larson’s book Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America is in development to be made into a motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Larson’s book reads like a novel but is, in reality, a nonfiction piece. Every event that occurs in the…