Crimes and Criminals Documents

The governor of Missouri, Thomas Crittenden, was upset that Frank and Jesse James eluded capture.

This document, from June of 1943, indicates that the five crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau could process  4,756 "personen" per day.  The doc...

WARNING:  THIS REPORT CONTAINS GRUESOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE MURDER OF ABBY BORDEN.  IT IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-of-HEART.  PROCEED WITH...

When soldiers captured John Wilkes Booth, they found his diary.  At some point, the diary was turned over to the FBI where certain pages were dig...

This image depicts the back cover of "Catch Me if You Can."  Thanks to the publisher, and Google Books, you can preview much of Frank Abagnale's ...

The "Roaring Twenties" was a decade of the 20th century - the 1920s - which followed the end of World War One.  It was marked by opposing activit...

Guy Fawkes—the most-famous of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators—signed two confessions, one after he was tortured and another eight days lat...

In the case of the United States v Susan B. Anthony, a federal marshal was ordered to collect $204.41 from the Defendant Anthony to satisfy the judgme...

Bookcover image of Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this book—known variously as The Possessed, Demons and Devils—after a real-life murder occurred in Russia dur...

After Senator Kennedy was shot, police officers searched Sirhan Sirhan’s home in Pasadena.  They found a spiral-bound notebook which appear...

The Bureau of Investigation had issued a "Wanted" poster for John Dillinger.  After he was killed, at Chicago's Biograph Theater, the poster was ...