True crime: Media
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Johannes Gutenberg developed one of the first printing presses in the mid-1400s,...
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Learn about Ed Gein, the murderer and grave robber who made household items from...
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Images
The band's 1991 true crime song âPollyâ is about an unidentified 14-year-old girl...
Paul BergenâRedferns/Getty Images
âIncidents relating to the East End murdersâThe history of the last victims of the...
Robana Picture Library/age fotostock
Lizzie Borden and her attorney in the courtroom before her acquittal, pictured in...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3c23237)
FBI wanted poster for fugitive murderer Ted Bundy.
Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy dressed up as a clown outside his home in Norwood Park...
Publicity photo/Martin Zielinski
Cotton Mather and his father, Increase Mather, gave many execution sermons.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3m00224)
Tussaud popularized true crime in her waxworks museum.
From The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud, 1921
Poe serialized the story of the murder of Mary Rogers, but failed to solve the crime.
W.S. HartshornâC.T. Tatman/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. cph 3a52078)
The illustration was published in
Digital image courtesy of the University of California, Los Angeles/University of California, Los Angeles via the Hathi Trust Digital Library. Published in Burke and Hare, 1921, edited by William Roughead, Edinburgh and London, William Hodge and Company, Ltd. (HathiTrust Catalog #007697122)
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