The headlines read She Stole Babies! Even more alarming was that Hazel Oden wasn’t your usual kidnapper. She was an eight-year-old little girl. In 1927, Hazel was living at 2706 Wabash Avenue in Los Angeles, California with her parents and 12 siblings. Her modus operandi was to wheel a buggy around the neighborhood until she … More She Stole Babies
Sallie (Burch) Baysore was widowed at the age of 43 when her husband, George, died in 1897. The couple lived in the village of Mason, Ohio which is near Cincinnati. Sallie and her late husband’s friend, Albert Dill, continued a friendship after George’s death. Albert even boarded with Sallie, although he made use of a … More Murder, She Heard
This cabinet card came to me as a gift from a friend. She knew my love of researching old photos and suspected I would be especially interested in this one. You see, part of the writing on the reverse reads “murdered by Durant (sic), for which he was hanged.” My friend was correct; I was … More Murder of the Juno Beauty
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