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Amputated Leg Left on a Train
The above article, from the October 13, 1906 edition of the Shenandoah Weekly Herald, raises more questions than it answers. What they did with the leg? Did they bury it with the rest of his remains?...
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Portrait of an Executioner: Frank Lee Wilson
On a crisp October day in 1939, a thin man in wire-rim spectacles left his mother's house on Ellis Avenue in Pittsburgh and traveled across the Allegheny Plateau to his new job in Centre County. Quiet...
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The Aulenbach Axe Murder
On a bitter cold day in January of 1947, a retired carpenter from Schuylkill Haven went berzerk and slaughtered his wife with a hatchet. What makes the tragic tale of Samuel Aulenbach strange is that,...
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The Mysterious Lycoming Creek Murders of 1922
When a small child was found hungry and crying inside an abandoned automobile parked along a rural stretch of Lycoming County in the summer of 1922, the first chapter of a perplexing mystery was...
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Terror From Above: The Meteor Storm of 1907
Thousands of meteors streaked across the Pennsylvania sky for several weeks in October of 1907, with meteorites crashing into Schuylkill, Dauphin, Northumberland and surrounding counties by the...
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Five Toes in a Box of Chocolates
The above story comes from the Lewisburg Journal, January 10, 1913.
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Lock Haven Boy Beaten to Death by Teacher
The above story appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 27, 1891.
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The Carlisle Courtroom Killer
When one thinks of murder scenes, the mind naturally gravitates towards secluded wilderness spots, dark basements, bedrooms, bar rooms and back alleys. The actors in these grisly crimes, if justice is...
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The Beheading of Davey Wood
Bradford County, a rural county straddling the New York state line, is one of the most peculiar locales in Pennsylvania. It is the traditional home of the infamous "Pool Tribe"-- a notorious family...
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In Defense of the Pool Tribe: Thomas Morgan Discusses Outcast Communities
Bradford County Editor's Note: In recent weeks I've published two articles pertaining to the infamous "Pool Tribe" of Bradford County. These blog posts relied heavily on newspaper articles of the 19th...
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The Gruesome Suicide of a Ballplayer
In the summer of 1917, a 26-year-old pitcher took the mound for Williamport's Pennsylvania Railroad baseball team. It was joyous occasion for the struggling P.R.R. club, who welcomed their star...
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The Beaver County Axe Murders of 1939
It was a Wednesday morning in May of 1939 when neighbors of the Cook family made a startling discovery-- a bloody axe lying upon the ground. Being a farming community not far from the Ohio state line,...
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Clement Kieselfskie: The Crippled Killer of Coal Township
Inmates at the State Industrial Home for Women, Muncy, Lycoming County During his many years on the Northumberland County bench, Judge Charles K. Morganroth sentenced a considerable number of killers....
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The Littlestown Mystery Grave
St. Aloysius Church, LittlestownWith a history dating back to the 1760s, the Adams County borough of Littlestown is proud of its long and storied past. However, locals were stumped in 1926 when...
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