Robert Wilhelm
Murder Illustrated Featured
Americans have always loved a good murder story—even more so when accompanied by pictures of the murder. Publishers in the 19th century were quick to learn that their readers had an insatiable appetite for murder stories, and an artist’s rendering of the crime enhanced the story’s appeal. From th ...
The Bloody Century retells the stories of Americans, driven by desperation, greed, jealousy, or an irrational bloodlust, to take the life of someone around them. It presents 50 of the most intriguing murder cases from the archives of American crime. Richly illustrated with scenes and portraits fr ...
Robert Wilhelm's long-awaited sequel to The Bloody Century takes the reader back to nineteenth-century America in all its gory glory. Nothing much has changed; people killed then as they do now for greed, jealousy, love and hate but this fascinating journey through the mindset of the century has ...
The headless corpse of a young woman, discovered in the woods of Northern Kentucky in February 1896, disrupted communities in three states. The woman was Pearl Bryan, daughter of a wealthy farmer in Greencastle, Indiana, and her suspected killers, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, were dental stu ...
The Bloody Century retells the stories of Americans, driven by desperation, greed, jealousy, or an irrational bloodlust, to take the life of someone around them. It presents 50 of the most intriguing murder cases from the archives of American crime. Richly illustrated with scenes and portraits fr ...
