Skyler Saunders
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Reason First: Alferd Packer’s Hunger for Crime
To dine on the human flesh of one’s own kind is one of the most taboo subjects in all of history. Alfred Packer, who never received a charge, saw trial, or faced a conviction based on cannibalism is linked to the morbid practice. By his account, he and five other men started an adventure toward Gunnison, Colorado. A bitter winter storm descended upon their cavalcade. What happened next proved to be rather disturbing.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Julia Bulette’s Murder a Blow to the Sex Trade
A dead prostitute prompted thousands of clients and other spectators to view the cortege. That deceased madam of a brothel was Julia Bulette. She had become an entrepreneur in the sex trade. In the mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, her clientele included many of the men from the mines who supported her brothel. None other than one of America’s greatest novelists, Mark Twain, reported about her dealings on numerous occasions.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: How Can Someone Get Away With Murder?
A Medal of Honor recipient and a wounded veteran from the Civil War, Daniel Sickles led a life of crises and mishaps. At once a hero at the same time an alleged murderer, Sickles took it upon himself to strike down Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, writer of the Star Spangled Banner. Sickles had financial issues, marital problems, and all sorts of downfalls to speak of during his life. However, this incident would prove to be a landmark case.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Casey and Cora’s Punishment
The bodies of Charles Cora and James P. Casey swung in the San Francisco wind for an hour. Their crimes consisted of murdering United States Marshal William H. Richardson and of gunning down 34-year-old James King on Wednesday May 14, 1856, respectively. King, a failed banker embarked on a second act in life with his Evening Bulletin newspaper.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: An Educated Brute: The John White Webster Story
The teeth have it. And a pelvis and leg, too. John White Webster, professor and lecturer lost his cool with Dr. George Parkman on Tuesday November 23, 1849. With a grapevine trunk, Webster dispatched the Dr. and chopped up his remains. He would then try to burn the corpse completely, failing in the process.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Was Albert Tirrell a Sleepwalker or Killer or Both?
Albert Tirrell saw murder and arsonist charges based on the fact that he had no awareness of committing these crimes as he engaged in sleepwalking. The crime involving a prostitute consisted of the young woman with her head nearly detached from her body, the cut to her throat had been so deep.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: He Murdered for Infamy
On November 18, 1842, in his cell in New York, he laid in his own blood. The wound came about because of a self-inflicted stab to his heart. His name, John C. Colt. The brother of the famed revolving pistol and rifle creator, Samuel Colt, this man stood as the outcast of the family. Another brother James worked as a lawyer. John C. Colt busied himself with forging documents, stealing, and running around with different, unscrupulous women.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: LeBlanc’s Menace to the Mind
In a case where someone sought a better life in the New World, 31-year-old Antoine Leblanc saw little prospects in America. He found employment tending to hogs and chopping wood for zilch. Disturbed by his circumstances, LeBlanc murdered his employer Judge Samuel Sayre, his wife and a servant of the Morristown, New Jersey home in 1833.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Bathsheba Spooner’s Plot
In Colonial Massachusetts, Bathsheba Spooner née Ruggles made a name for herself for all the wrong reasons. As the initial woman to be executed after the Declaration of Independence, therefore, she would be the first woman to be put to death in the burgeoning United States of America.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: America’s First ‘Murtherer [sic]‘
At America’s inception theft, graft, rape, and pillaging and other illicitness became ways of life. As folks from Europe avoided creditors, extradition, and persecution, ships like the Mayflower would bring them to the New World. With the unsanitary conditions and poor living spaces, the occupants of such vessels had to fend off constant wetness and disease.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
