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Crime and Punishment - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Cornfield Point: Old Saybrook’s Forgotten Scenic Alcove
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Lydia Sherman: The Derby Poisoner
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The Living Actually Haunted Many Connecticut Taverns – Who Knew?
Gerald MacGuire and the Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt
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Gerald Chapman: America’s First “Public Enemy Number One”
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Monument to Hero of the Greenwich Police Department – Who Knew?
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A Fair to Forget – Who Knew?
Financing a Free Puerto Rico: The Great Wells Fargo Heist of 1983
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Murder on the Map: The Mysterious Death of Captain George M. Colvocoresses
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Danbury Prison Protest – Today in History: August 11
The Amistad
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John Brown: A Portrait of Violent Abolitionism
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Windsor’s “Murder Factory”
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A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives
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Richard Reihl: The Hate Crime That Became a Turning Point for LGBTQ+ Civil Rights
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Elizabeth Bentley Born – Today in History: January 1
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First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
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A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London
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The White Pine Acts – Who Knew?
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Danbury Hangings: The Executions of Anthony and Amos
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Thanksgiving and Christmas at Long Lane, 1874
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Enforcing Law and Order in Greenwich
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Taking on the State: Griswold v. Connecticut
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The “Red Scare” in Connecticut
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Notorious New-Gate Prison
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The Deplorable History of Hartford’s Seyms Street Jail
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Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions
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Gallows Lane and the Execution of Barnett Davenport
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The Automatic Gallows – Today in History: June 18
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Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft – Today in History: May 26
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Connecticut’s Loyal Subjects: Toryism and the American Revolution
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Patrick J. Mahoney
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Joseph Taborsky and the “Mad Dog Killings”
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The Vonsiatsky Conspiracy Case
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First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
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The Beadle Family Murders – Today in History: December 11
Jim Morrison Arrested – Today in History: December 9
A Connecticut Nazi Spy Has a Change of Heart
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Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg
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Witchcraft in Connecticut
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[Archived] Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3
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Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3
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Capital Punishment in Connecticut: Changing Views
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Wethersfield Prison Blues
The Shoe Box Murder Mystery
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New-Gate Prison Breakout – Today in History: May 18
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A 1947 Movie Details the Unsolved Murder of a Bridgeport Priest
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Video: No Booze for You – Who Knew?
Sunday Funday? We Think Not – Who Knew?
Osborn Correctional Institution
Zebulon Brockway: A Controversial Figure in Prison Reform
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