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Inez Burk, 16-Year-Old Murderess – Indiana, 1915
FULL TEXT: At five o’clock Wednesday evening the grand jury returned a truer bill for manslaughter against Miss Inez Burk, who has confessed to killing her mother, Mrs. Archie McClain, a week ago last...
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Darlene Rainer, 14-Year-Old Murderess – Texas, 1959
FULL TEXT: Houston, May 16 – Machinist George Rainer wept softly as he talked of his daughter, a pretty choir who took her mother’s life with a shotgun.“I never had a minute’s trouble with that girl,”...
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Madeline Kirkland, 11-Year-Old Murderess – New York, 1944
FULL TEXT: Madeline Kirkland, a Negro girl of 11, stood in Homicide Court yesterday and with a bored air read a newspaper account of a murder. Finally, she looked up. “The paper’s all wrong,” she said....
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Gloria Utter, 3-Year-Old Murderess – Colorado, 1930
FULL TEXT: Denver, Aug. 4. – Six-year-old Rose May Etheridge was dead here today, slain by a three-year-old playmate during a quarrel over a rag doll.“Rose May stole my rag doll – so I shot her,” was...
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Katherine Oka Simmon, 13-Year-Old Murderess – Canada, 1913
FULL TEXT: Prince Albert, Sask., Dec. 1 – Katherine Oka Simmon, aged 13 years, was today convicted of murdering her 9-year-old playmate, Julia Jenex, on the afternoon of June 21 last. The jury was out...
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Grace Newell, 6-Year-Old Murderess – New York, 1897
FULL TEXT: Plattsburgh, N. Y., May 12. – A horrible case of infantile brutality has just come to light here. Grace Newell, aged six years, living with her parents on the Miller Road, about five miles...
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Elizabeth Stang, 10-Year-Old Would Be Murderess – 1868, Chicago
FULL TEXT: From the Chicago Journal of the 20th, we extract the following particulars of a fearful tragedy, information of which we have already published in our telegraphic columns:Residing at No. 340...
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Laura Smith, 15-Year-Old Murderess – Maryland, 1982
FULL TEXT: Easton, Md., Jan. 9. – Laura Smith, a fifteen-year-old colored girl, was arrested charged with poisoning her father. The girl declares that the poison was intended for her brother, who had...
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Catherine Manz, Poisoned Her Sister Because Her Dresses Were Prettier –...
FULL TEXT: MASSILLON, O., March 19. No trace had been found to-night of 16-year-old Catherine Alice Manz, who disappeared from her home here yesterday and whose sister, Elizabeth Manz, was found dead...
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May Pierce, 13-Year-Old Murderess – Michigan, 1895
FULL TEXT: Grand Rapids, Mich., July 9. – Mrs. Levi Pierce, over 60 years of age, was found lifeless in her home, two and one-half miles southwest of Berlin, yesterday. She had been strangled to death....
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Patricia Kirk, 5-Year-Old Murderess – New York, 1961
FULL TEXT: WALTON, N. Y. – A 5-year- old girl clubbed her younger sister to death with a toilet-seat cover less than a month after the younger child had been found crammed in an earthenware crock, a...
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Eliza Sudds, 15-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – Ohio, 1880
FULL TEXT: Cleveland, October 20. – A strange case of youthful depravity came to light here to-day. Eliza Sudds, fifteen years old, a domestic employed in the family of J. J. Crooks, her eighteen...
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Cora Hicks, 11-Year-Old Murderess – North Carolina, 1890
FULL TEXT: Durham, Reb. 21. – Cora Hicks, a negro girl about 13 years old, is in jail upon the charge of committing a most inhuman crime. The charge against her is that she threw a colored child she...
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Lynne Partee, 14-Year-Old Murderess – Tennessee, 1968
FULL TEXT: Memphis, Tenn. – Thomas Hal Partee, 16, a victim of cerebral palsy since birth, was stabbed to death at his home in Memphis Monday night.Homicide officers said his sister, Lynn Partee, 14,...
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Eliza Sudds, 15-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – Ohio, 1880
FULL TEXT: Cleveland, October 20. – A strange case of youthful depravity came to light here to-day. Eliza Sudds, fifteen years old, a domestic employed in the family of J. J. Crooks, her eighteen...
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Marie Anderson, 15-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – Iowa, 1899
FULL TEXT: Marie Anderson, the 15-year-old adopted daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson, of this city, has confessed that she put poison in the coffee of her parents a week ago, with the intention...
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Alice Richard, 14-Years Old, Murdered Her Twin Sister – Fresno, 1950
FULL TEXT: A slender, 14-year-old Fresno girl shot and killed her twin sister early yesterday “because,” she told officers, “I hated her.”“I have wanted to kill her for a long time,” Alice Richard told...
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Pearl Silverman, 18-Years-Old, Murdered Her 11-Year-Old Brother – New Jersey,...
FULL TEXT: An 11-year-old Jersey City boy was found bludgeoned to death with a hammer in his home last night. Police hunted his attractive 18-year-old sister as the slayer. The murdered boy was Albert...
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Joyce Christine Nichols, 13-Year-Old Rapist-Murderess – California, 1947
FULL TEXT: Bakersfield, Nov. 19. – Breaking into tears under questioning, 13-year-old Joyce Christine Nichols admitted today, authorities said, that she killed blonde Myretta Jones, 5, with a rock last...
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Elizabeth McDonald, 14-Year-Old Murderess (Would-be Serial Killer?) –...
FULL TEXT: After an examination of more than an hour by police officials and juvenile probation officer New F. Hoyt of the Chelsea District Court, 14-year-old Elizabeth McDonald of 2 Shawmut pl.,...
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