Added on June 27, 2019 Killing Clio Louis “The Laughing Eel” Ross and the Road of No Return: Incarcerating the “Criminally Insane” In 1921 a burglar called the “Laughing Eel” began serving a ten-year prison term, but it was 33 years before […]
Added on April 24, 2019 Historical essay Murder and Motherhood in 1950s Ireland: The Trial of Abortionist Mamie Cadden On the evening of April 17, 1956, thirty-three-year-old Helen O. visited nurse Mamie Cadden at 17 Hume Street, Dublin, for […]
Added on February 17, 2016 Historical essay “The Only Menstrual Murderess”: Blood, Guns, and a Theory of Female Crime [gblockquote]Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her father forty whacks And when she saw what she had done She […]