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Painting of authorities on horseback transporting two suspects

Three Suspects Eventually Paid for This Senseless, Savage Murder Along the Snake River

by Kevin Carson6/16/20235/31/2023

In July 1882 two men entered a cabin on Washington Territory’s Snake River and brutally killed shipping station agent Eli Cummins.

street scene in Mayville, North Dakota

He Was Shot in the Head Over Booze in this Prohibition State. His Killers Walked Free.

by Ellen Notbohm4/17/20234/17/2023

The 1878 ambush killing of English rancher John Henry Tunstall set Billy the Kid on the path to murder.

This English Rancher’s Ambush Killing Set Billy the Kid on the Path to Murder

by David G. Thomas6/17/20227/7/2022

‘Lansky’ Film Takes Closer Look at the Financial Wizard of Organized Crime

by Claire Barrett6/30/20216/30/2021

‘Shoot and be Damned’

by Dana B. Shoaf3/17/20213/18/2021

The murder of 12-year-old Louise Frost

by Sandra Strickland and Geoffrey E. Quelch1/29/2020

Wild West Book Review: Encyclopedia of Murder & Execution in the Wild West

by Alexander Cook12/31/2019

Belle Gunness’ Poisonous Pen

by Ted Hartzell5/7/2018

Were Jefferson and Broadnax Suspects in the Murder of George Wythe?

by Mr. History2/9/20161/14/2016