"Because the father and husband held them in a thrall of fear, Mrs. Anthony Liszka and her daughter, Elizabeth, 13, hacked him to death with axes while he slept."

"A chance acquaintance in the back room of a saloon, a few moments of laughter and revelry over the cups, and Annie Walsh of 16 Elm Street walked out with her newfound friend last night to her death, for within an hour of the time when she and Captain Matroni of the barge, Snipe, moored at the City Coal Company's wharf; had left the place where they met, she lay in a bunk in the cabin, her body, terribly mutilated, the victim of one of the most vicious and brutal murders that New Bedford has ever known."

“What would you do if they were going to take your children away from you never to see them anymore?”

"I am far happier now I have done it than I was before, and I trust she is."

"...The murderer struck but one blow and that it was the most brutal and cold-blooded blow ever struck in Buffalo."

The hatchet murder of three-year-old Minda (Minnie) Effie Porter and one-year-old Adaline May Porter December 12, 1872 near Columbiana, Ohio

“His mutilated body buried in the woods and discovered by a dog. The worst crime in the history of Berkshire.”

“…on the blood-colored floor were found the pieces of the heavy iron tea-kettle with which Finn killed her, no axe being used as first reported.”

“Jacob Geogle and Annie Geogle came to their deaths by blows and cuts inflicted upon their heads and bodies with an axe in the hands of Joseph Snyder, on the night of Dec. 26, 1880.”

“What happened before the sun rose in the east this morning and looked in at the windows of a white cottage can be judged at this writing only by the marks of bloodshed.”