Historic Halloween – 50 years ago (1969)
PASTIES REAL HALLOWEEN TREAT Dallas Morning News, October 1969 “When Halloween rolls around, youngsters (both young and old) will be out trick [...]
Historic Halloween – 1944 (75 years ago)
Halloween articles in the Dallas Morning News are a bit of a buzz kill. The articles are lamenting the fact that candles, paper [...]
On This Day In Dallas History – 75 years ago
Dallas Morning News, October 17, 1944 Fatal Shooting Brings Dismissal of Divorce Suit Judge John A. Rawlins Monday dismissed a divorce suit styled: [...]
Cooling Weather
The weather is cooling down. Book a walking tour with us for either the Dallas West End or the Garland Square. View our [...]
H.H Holmes in DFW, Part XXII
How did serial killer H.H. Holmes/Herman Mudgett finally meet his end? Being sentenced to hang at Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia on May 7, [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXI
H.H. Holmes, the murderer/insurance fraudster/bigamist at the center of our story, sold not only his memoir from his prison cell in 1895, he [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XX
In 1895, serial killer H.H. Holmes (aka Herman Mudgett) is sitting in Moyamensing prison on charges of insurance fraud while a thorough investigation [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XIII
Image: A life insurance policy dating to 1893 – it is unrelated to serial killer H H Holmes himself, but gives us an [...]
H.H. Holmes in DFW, part XII
Our famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes has hightailed it out of Fort Worth, leaving the workers building his new hotel unpaid. He has [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part XI
After killing Minnie and her sister Nannie Williams in the Chicagoland area in 1893/94, H. H. Holmes quickly moved to claim his ill-gotten [...]