Fiends of the early Republic, 1782-1826
William Beadle, family annihilator
Domestic slaughter then and now
Samuel Green, prodigy of crime
Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill murder
Antebellum maniacs, 1840-1860
Robert McConaghy, "the inhuman butcher"
Peter Robinson, the "tell-tale heart" killer
Polly Bodine, "The witch of staten island"
"The worst woman on earth"
Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, the Waterville poisoner
"The ballad of Edward Matthews"
Henrietta Robinson, "The veiled murderess"
Return J. M. Ward, "The triple murderer"
Francis Gouldy, pre-civil war mass murderer
The Saugerties bard, minstrel of mayhem
Albert Hicks, "The worst man who ever lived"
The resurrection of Albert Hicks
Post-civil war monsters, 1866-1880
Martha Grinder, Lydia Sherman, and Sarah Jane Robinson: the
Anton Probst, "The monster in the shape of a man"
Edward H. Ruloff, "The man of two lives"
Louis Wagner, the smutty nose butcher
Franklin Evans, the Northwood murderer
"Georgianna lovering, or the Northwood tragedy"
Joseph Lapage, "The french monster"
The mystery of serial murder
Charles Freeman and the "pocasset horror"
The woman who killed her child for god
Emeline meaker, "the Virago of Vermont"
Hangings public and private
Turn-of-the-century psychos, 1892-1896
Carlyle Harris, the libertine
Dr. Robert Buchanan, copycat
Harry Hayward, "the Minneapolis Svengali"
Scott Jackson, who slaughtered poor Pearl Bryan
Cal Crim, "sleuth-hound of the law"
Andrew P. Kehoe, "the world's worst demon"
Ada Leboeuf, "the siren of the swamps"
William Edward Hickman, "the Fox"
Pearl O'Loughlin, wicked stepmother
Harry powers, "the bluebeard of quiet dell"
"The crime at quiet dell" (version one)
"The crime at quiet dell" (version two)
"The night of the hunter"
Bluebeard : fact and fantasy
Robert Edwards, the "American tragedy killer"
Robert Irwin, "the mad sculptor"
Soldier, sailor, serial killer, 1941-1961
Eddie Leonski, "the brown-out strangler"
Julian Harvey and the Bluebelle's last voyage
Antone Costa, the "Cape Cod vampire"