Early American mass murder changes common perceptions of crime
In one of the most famous crimes of post-Revolution America, Barnett Davenport commits a mass murder in rural Connecticut. Caleb Mallory, his wife, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren were killed in their home by their boarder, Davenport. Davenport, born in 1760, enlisted in the American army as a teenager and had served at Valley Forge and […]