October 7, 1849 Baltimore, Maryland Edgar Allan Poe dies under mysterious circumstances Many speculation as to Poe's means of death are circulated even to this day. Some of the theories of his death include suicide, murder, various illnesses (cholera, Hypoglycemia, rabies, syphilis, or influenza) and cooling (a practice of electoral fraud by intimidating people to…
Woman examined by psychologists after killing mother-in-law with hatchet
September 29, 1935 Chestertown, Maryland A woman who murdered her mother in-law with a hatchet meets with alienists (an archaic term for psychologists) to determine her level of sanity. During her subsequent trial, she claimed she didn't remember murdering the elderly woman. She stated she grabbed a hammer to fix a towel rack in the…
FLW: Finding peace after murdering woman to sell her corpse
Famous Last Words John Ross Baltimore, Maryland September 9, 1887 "Gentlemen, one and all, I am about to die for a crime of which I am guilty and I am perfectly willing to go. I have nothing to regret, but I am sorry that I, John Thomas Ross, have to pay it all. As Marshall…
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