True crime: an American anthology

Hanging of John Billington / William Bradford Pillars of salt / Cotton Mather Murder of a daughter / Benjamin Franklin An account of a murder committed by Mr. J-Y-, upon his family, in December, A.D. 1781 / Anonymous "A crime more atrocious and horrible than any other" / Timothy Dwight Record of crimes in the United States / Jesse Strang Recent tragedy / James Gordon Bennett "A show of wax-figures" / Nathaniel Hawthorne Remarkable case of arrest for murder / Abraham Lincoln Crime news from California / Ambrose Bierce From Roughing it / Mark Twain Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the boy fiend / Anonymous Gibbeted / Lafcadio Hearn Memorable murder / Celia Thaxter Trial of Guiteau / José Martí Murder of Annie Downey, alias "Curly Tom" / Thomas Byrnes Hunting human game / Frank Norris Hossack murder / Susan Glaspell Murder ballads Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, murderess / Thomas S. Duke Hell benders, or The story of a wayside tavern / Edmund Pearson Eternal blonde / Damon Runyon From The gangs of New York / Herbert Asbury Mystery of the hansom cab / Alexander Woollcott

Execution / Joseph Mitchell

More and better psychopaths / H.L. Mencken

Dreiser sees error in Edwards defense / Theodore Dreiser

Sex and the all-American boy / Dorothy Kilgallen

Miss Ferber views "vultures" at trial / Edna Ferber

Ditch of doom / Jim Thompson

A sort of genius / James Thurber

Veteran kills 12 in mad rampage on Camden Street / Meyer Berger

Butcher's dozen / John Bartlow Martin

Case of the scattered Dutchman / A.J. Liebling

Trial of Ruby McCollum / Zora Neale Hurston

Black dahlia / Jack Webb

Life and death of Caryl Chessman / Elizabeth Hardwick

Shambles of Ed Gein / Robert Bloch

Superman's crime: Loeb and Leopold / Miriam Allen deFord

Eight girls, all pretty, all nurses, all slain / W.T. Brannon

Pied piper of Tucson / Don Moser

Stranger with a camera / Calvin Trillin

Charlie Manson's home on the range / Gay Talese

Then it all came down / Truman Capote

"Son of Sam" / Jimmy Breslin

Turner-Stompanato killing: a family affair / Jay Robert Nash

Medea of Kew Gardens Hills / Albert Borowitz

My mother's killer / James Ellroy

Young love / Ann Rule

Nightmare on Elm Drive / Dominick Dunne.