Tag: crime

Misc Monday: Burning Joan of Arc: The 1927 Indiana...

Posted by Stephen J. Taylor | Jun 8, 2015 | Misc Mondays | 7 |

Bacteria, Blood & Bad Dreams: The Unsolved Murder of Helen Knabe

by Stephen J. Taylor | Nov 9, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 4 |

How did one of Indiana’s pioneer investigators into STDs and rabies come to a gory end? The...

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Rufus Cantrell, Intruder in the Dust

by Stephen J. Taylor | Oct 19, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 0 |

In 1935, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges weighed in on what mathematicians later called...

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“Escaped Nuns are Myths”: The Roots of a Forgotten Riot

by Stephen J. Taylor | Oct 10, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 5 |

Did you ever hear about the riot sparked by horror tales, a Holiness preacher, and a renegade nun?...

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A Ku Klux Quaker?

by Stephen J. Taylor | Sep 28, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 8 |

Daisy Douglass Barr, Imperial Empress of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, circa 1923. Women are...

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A Chinese Gravestone and a Murder Mystery at 207 Indiana Avenue

by Stephen J. Taylor | Aug 3, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 1 |

Crown Hill — America’s third-largest public cemetery — has a few hundred...

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Misc Monday: The Russian Connection

by Stephen J. Taylor | Jul 6, 2015 | Misc Mondays | 1 |

Dos Equis might have “The Most Interesting Man in the World” doing beer ads today. ...

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