The Coroner’s Team Arrives at the Smuttynose Murder Scene in 1873
Behind the horrific scene on a dark winter night on an empty, isolated island
Blood Science on Trial in 1873
Fish or human corpuscles? The Smuttynose murder was early CSI
Judge Woodbury Langdon, Impeached in 1790
Impeached because he failed to show up for work
The Murder House on Smuttynose Island Is Long Gone
Hope this clears up a longstanding confusion-- but probably not
Jesse James: From Outlaw to Make-Believe Movie Hero
Murdering rebel resurrected as sympathetic cinema protagonist
Did Dog Whistle Postcards Lure Red Light Customers?
Promoting Portsmouth's underbelly trade
Four Tree Island Saloon Hosts Illegal Lottery in 1889
Police waited on the NH shore to scoop up Massachusetts gamblers
The Bordello Behind Seven Guys in a Boat
See the Four Tree Island bordello owned by Charles Gray
The Sleepwalking Murder of Sally Cochran
Abraham Prescott was not guilty of murder, he claimed, because he was asleep at the time.
How Maine Killed the Death Penalty
Wavering at first, Mainers ended capital punishment in 1887
The Murder Testimony of Maren Hontvet
A transcript of the very words that hanged Louis Wagner
Taft, Graft, and a Bull Moose in 1912
Politics and prostitutes in Portsmouth