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While researching a case for my upcoming book on historic D.C. murders, I came across the criminal records of two suspects, William Kappel and Leo Cullen. They present a rather intriguing glimpse of Depression-Era crime (and evidence that it wasn’t hard to avoid jail time). It’s interesting that Kappel was charged with violating child labor… →

As you research historic true crimes, you come across stories that are too brief to be worked into a book chapter, but offer fascinating snapshots in time: From The Washington Evening Star, October 28 and 29, 1944: The kitchen of the Tilden Gardens Apartment Hotel saw “[a]n argument over priority on the use of a… →