Death by Suggestion | M.P. Pellicer

On September 19, 1911 Lady Frances M. Garnett-Orme was found dead in her room at the Savoy Hotel in the hill station of Mussoorie in northern India. The body was carefully laid out, as if posed after she died, and the doors were locked from the inside.

A post mortem examination found the presence of prussic acid. Two months later her companion Eva Mountstevens was arrested at Jhansi, after she left Lucknow.

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Honeymooners and Murder at Niagara Falls | M.P. Pellicer

Niagara Falls has been a favorite destination for honeymooners for decades. Like a magnet, it also draws daredevils and those wishing to release themselves from this mortal coil.

Niagara Falls is made up of three waterfalls that are 18,000 years old. Two in the United States and one in Canada. Horseshoe Falls spans the border of both countries, and empties into the Niagara River; it's the largest of the three. The falls have a vertical drop of more than 165 feet.

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Zona's Revenge | M.P. Pellicer

Since time immemorial there have been stories of the spirits of murder victims coming back to point a finger at their killer and seek justice for themselves.

Such is the sad story of Zona Heaster Shue who lived in rural West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century.

ZONA AND THE STRANGER

Born Elva Zona Heaster in 1873, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Zona’s life is something of a mystery before she met her eventual husband Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue in 1896. Shockingly only a year prior to their meeting, the records of Greenbrier County indicate that when she was twenty-two years old on November 29, 1895, she bore an illegitimate male child, who’s supposed father was an unskilled laborer named George Woldridge.

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Chicago Fiend Murders | M.P. Pellicer

On a frigid day in January, 1910, the Chicago headlines trumpeted, "Chicago Fiend Second White Chapel Ripper".

The reason for the sensational story was based on the opinion of Assistant Police Chief Schuettler following the coroner's report for a post-mortem completed on the body of Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn (AKA Anna Furlong). She had been found mutilated and decapitated in a South Side rooming house, which doubled as a brothel situated over a saloon owned by James Seeley at 1702 Armour Avenue (also given as 51 West 17th Street). Little did the police or the public know that this grisly crime was only the beginning.

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The Phantom of Bel-Air | M.P. Pellicer

Ethel Allen disappeared, and eventually many believed justice failed her, but justice can be served in many ways.

The Volstead Act was repealed in 1933. The production of illegal alcohol, and the money tied into the vices found in speakeasies still flowed through the backwaters and scrub hammocks of Central Florida. A raid on the Blind Tiger, a pool room in Rockledge yielded 12 gallons of moonshine and case liquor. Authorities found more 160 proof hooch at the owner's house.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, A Murder Mystery and a Ghost | Stories of the Supernatural

Mysterious Mardi Gras | Stories of the Supernatural

A Most Brutal Wretch

 January 23, 1877

They were young, four of them, and they already made the acquaintance of Indianapolis's mayor for stealing a quantity of whiskey. One of them was named Macy Warner (birth name Amasa Warner). The mayor took it under advisement, but perhaps he didn't realize this wouldn't be the last time he would hear of Macy.  READ MORE