Famous Jail Cell

By |2020-01-28T00:55:28+00:00January 28th, 2020|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, jail, Men, night clubs, police, Politics, Texans|

Trivia!  This Dallas jail cell is quite famous.  Who did it hold? Find out in our next post who was held in the [...]

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Pegasus Lost

By |2020-01-04T17:17:29+00:00January 4th, 2020|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, detective, Magnolia Building, Pegasus, White Rock Lake|

Yesterday we highlighted the Pegasus atop the Magnolia Building on Commerce Street.  That Pegasus is a mere 20 years old.  The 86 year [...]

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On This Day In Dallas History – 75 years ago

By |2019-10-17T18:11:19+00:00October 17th, 2019|Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, graves, Men, Murders, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Dallas Morning News, October 17, 1944 Fatal Shooting Brings Dismissal of Divorce Suit Judge John A. Rawlins Monday dismissed a divorce suit styled: [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXIV

By |2019-09-03T17:12:13+00:00September 3rd, 2019|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, fort worth, hanging, jail, Men, Murders, oak cliff, philadelphia, Private Investigators, Texans|

For our final (!) post about H.H. Holmes in this twenty-four part series (!), we return to Frank Geyer.  Remember our tenacious Philadelphia [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XX

By |2019-08-21T18:17:40+00:00August 21st, 2019|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, fort worth, jail, Men, Murders, oak cliff, philadelphia, police, Private Investigators, Texans, Women|

In 1895, serial killer H.H. Holmes (aka Herman Mudgett) is sitting in Moyamensing prison on charges of insurance fraud while a thorough investigation [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XVIII

By |2019-08-18T16:07:14+00:00August 18th, 2019|Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, Murders, oak cliff, philadelphia, police, train history, trains|

A name from the H.H. Holmes serial killing saga that you might not know: Detective Frank Geyer.  It is Geyer’s tireless work that [...]

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