Tag: Arthur Mayhew

• IDENTIFIED: ‘An unidentified man is strapped into Sing Sing’s electric chair.’

  

  For my 100th post, I’m going to offer you something special, something a little different from the usual fare. The story of this ‘unidentified man’ at the moment of his death. True crime buffs and historians will have seen this particular image many, many times. Taken by photographer William van der Weyde, it’s invariably captioned…

  CrimeScribe

  April 13, 2018

  True Crime

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