Poison – The UncommonWealth

"Persecuted By His Race": The Norfolk County Chancery Causes, 1718-1913

The information contained in the Norfolk County Chancery Cause 1893-022, Berkley Hebrew Cemetery Association v. Abraham Liebman, et. al., makes for a highly charged and…

Callie FreedDecember 13, 2017

Archives Manuscripts & Special Collections

The Asylum Poisonings: Death, Politics, and “Low Cussedness” in Staunton

In 1883, the year when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solved the case of the Speckled Band, an equally baffling real-life killing drew another noted…

Bill BynumNovember 19, 2014

Arsenic, Lies, and Bigamy

Cornbread and cabbage turned lethal for one Petersburg woman, but it was another woman’s need for some chicken feed that exposed the death as something…

Mary Dean CarterAugust 7, 2013