Vintage Photos, Genealogy & Crime Stories
The year is 1931 and the place is our nation's capital. (That's Washington, DC, for those who aren't sure). This pair of pretties — a husband and wife — will be the subjects of my next blog post. But a warning: what they did was not pretty. Check back soon for the full story!
Herman Perlmutter had a problem with Esther, his 16-year-old daughter. The middle child of seven, she refused to get a job in a factory like her older siblings had done. With nine mouths to feed, Herman and his wife, Celia — Jewish immigrants who came to America fleeing the pogroms in Hungary — desperately needed … Continue reading A Defect of the Heart
A young girl was found wandering in the vicinity of New York City’s Bowery neighborhood on a cold day in February 1920. She was taken to a Christian missionary society, where she told authorities a disturbing story about having been forced to become the “child wife” of a much older man. Mary Banta, the missionary … Continue reading The Strange Case of Marie Chin Wore
Captured and Exposed 