

circa 1900
The first modern serial killer was a capitalist...


Delaware, 1905

They still used whips and stocks.
J.B. Black, "bogus checks"

No, he's not dead!
Taking a mug shot

In 1906 New York City
E. Frank Wright

Adam Worth, "Master Criminal"

Click on the photo to read about this "Napoleon of the criminal world"
Mary Moriarity, pickpocket

AKA "Kitty the Welch woman"
Rube Burrow, train robber, in his coffin

After being killed, thousands viewed his body and took souvenirs.
This is "prison garb"?

Catherine O'Neill

Joseph Chancellor

A Pinkerton's National Detective Agency identification card.
Unknown outlaws of the Old West

Yes, they are dead!