![]() Prolific serial killer believed to have murdered up to forty-two people in Illinois and Indiana. “Cream that Will Hang,” The New Bloomfield (New Bloomfield, PA), October 4, 1881 Cream poisons two people in Chicago, Illinois and later three women in London, England. Thomas Neill Cream, “The Lambeth Poisoner” “THE BOSTON BORGIA,” The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), November 14, 1888ġ881-1891: Dr. Robinson poisons eleven people to collect insurance money, including her husband, children, and various other friends and family members. “ARREST OF LA PAGE,” The New York Herald, November 4, 1875ġ881-1886: Sarah Jane Robinson, the “Boston Borgia” or the “Poison Fiend” Albans, Vermont after the discovery of the mutilated body and head of young Josie Langmaid in Pembroke, New Hampshire leads to his arrest. The French-Canadian trapper confesses to rape, murder, and mutilation of school teacher Marietta Ball in St. “THIRTY-THREE YEARS IN SOLITARY CELL BUT MAY AGAIN SEE DAYLIGHT BEFORE HE DIES,” The Spokane Press (Spokane, WA), April 8, 1909 At the time, one of the youngest people in the history of the state to be convicted of murder. Piper,” The State Journal (Jefferson City, MO), May 28, 1875Īt age fourteen, Pomeroy viciously stabs two children to death in Boston, Massachusetts. Parishioners are stunned when Piper, a well-respected sexton at Warren Avenue Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts confesses to raping and beating to death four victims after a body of a little girl was found in the belfry of the church. “A MONSTER FAMILY,” Las Vegas Gazette (Las Vegas, NM), May 24, 1873ġ873-1875: Thomas W. Authorities find fifteen bodies with crushed skulls and cut throats buried within miles of the Bender property. “THE DERBY POISONER,” The Wheeling Daily Register (Wheeling, WV), January 16, 1873ġ870-18 73: The Bender Family, the “Bloody Benders”Ī family of killers prey on travellers who pass through their inn and general store in Labette County, Kansas. Poisons three husbands and eight children in Derby, Connecticut. “FRANKFORT August 22,” Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA), September 20, 1799ġ864-1871: Lydia Sherman, the “Derby Poisoner” Considered to be America’s first recorded serial killers. Micajah “Big” Harpe and Wiley “Little” Harpe terrorize the western frontier for years killing men, women, and children without discretion. HOLMES, ” The Journal (New York, NY), April 12, 1896 Newspapers reported the gory details of their crimes to a terrified, yet fascinated public. Diabolical and prolific serial killers existed early in America at a time when police were still devising investigative methods to link related murders. ![]()
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