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Doris Lane Doris Lane is an online writer. Much of what she writes draws on local history, legend, and folklore. She writes three weekly columns on Themestream: North Jersey Coast Line for visitors to the Jersey Shore; Madam Murder, true crime mysteries; Ghoulies and Ghosties in New York and New Jersey. Her work has been published online at Haints E-Zine of Southern History and Culture, Amazing Authors Showcase, The 13th Story, and Zinos.
New: Murder in the Brothel: The Courtesan and the Clerk. Helen Jewett was famous in 1830s New York. Elegant and strikingly dressed, she was known to every pedestrian along Broadway. Young Richard P. Robinson, one of her regular clients at the brothel, became infamous by murdering her in bed and getting away with it. The Dumb-Bell Murder. The 1927 murder of magazine editor Albert Snyder by his wife and her lover generated more publicity than the sinking of the Titanic. A book and a movie, Double Indemnity, and a Broadway play, Machinal, were based on the case. But what is remembered most is a secret snapshot taken of the electric-chair execution of "The Bloody Blonde." It remains one of the most famous photos in tabloid history. The Original "Dream Team". Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the most star-crossed political foes in U.S. history, joined together in 1800 to defend a man accused – and all but convicted in the court of public opinion – of the murder of his fiancée. America’s First Known Serial Killers: The Harps, Big and Little. The first known serial killers in American history were the Harp boys. During the years of the Revolutionary War, the two cousins went on an indiscriminate killing rampage, killing anyone who got in their way. They killed infants, including their own, children, women and numerous men. They killed for the sake of killing.
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