Who Murdered Dr. Durkin?

Scranton, PA. In the early days of this blue-collar city, a well-known doctor is murdered and a manhunt follows.

A man is first convicted, then later acquitted. Does his wife’s outburst in court thirty years later finally reveal the true killer? Continue reading Who Murdered Dr. Durkin?

Stabbing Turns Deadly in Bull’s Head

I’ve previously written about the violence that emanated from the Bull’s Head section of Scranton. Between the notorious actions of the Black Hand and the fact that the early Italian settlers were known to imbibe far too much alcohol on occasion, there was plenty of violence in this section of the then-booming blue-collar city. And sometimes, that violence resulted in death followed by murder or … Continue reading Stabbing Turns Deadly in Bull’s Head