Emerging from the tragic demise of her mother and subsequent abandonment by her father, Jane Toppan entered the world of medicine only to use her training to employ destruction upon innocent lives.

Lavinia and her Six Mile Wayfarer House were a match made in Hell.

Sarah McKinna’s story is emblematic of the harsh natures of motherhood before modern medicine, and just how quickly a simple life can become a nightmare beyond imagining.

A circus elephant and a murderous sniper have a commonality. It may just allow us to make sense of senseless killing.

Some demons do their most gruesome works in churches.

On the wonderfully talented and murderous painter Richard Dadd.