Devol Calaboose, and not much else
Besides the calaboose, there's not much else in Devol to explain the town's former industriousness.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 15, 2023
Photograph of an Execution in the Choctaw Nation
The only available photographic documentation of an execution carried out by the Choctaw Nation's Lighthorsemen.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 30, 2023
Holmes Murder Castle in Fort Worth
Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 22, 2023
The Brown Front Brothel in Denison
The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 16, 2023
Machine Gun Kelley, the Kidnapper
Infamous bandit Machine Gun Kelley is buried here inside his wife Kathryn's family's plot in Wise County, Texas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 13, 2023
Racialist Deflection: Violence in the Red River Valley
The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Sep 6, 2023
Cullen Baker, Reconstruction-Era Mass Murderer in the Red River Valley
Psychopath Cullen Baker's despicable Reconstruction-era crimes in the Red River Valley make him a mass-murderer.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 31, 2023
Bad Bill Dalton, dead in Ardmore
Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 29, 2021
Murder Mystery: Tuck's Ferry in Love County, Oklahoma
The demise of Tuck's Ferry in Love County, Oklahoma was the outcome of the ferry operator's murder.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Apr 1, 2020
Jail Bait: Finding Jail Cells in a Field at an Estate Sale in Denton County, Texas
I freakin' found the cells of Denton County's old jail in a Texas field full of brambles!
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