These crimes happened regularly in the 1800’s that I know of, my husband writes for a couple of western magazines and I have helped him go through the old newspapers. Some of the articles were horrible, they described in detail what was done to children as well as adults who were murdered. We just hear about them much faster now and then it was just local knowledge that somes times took two or three months or longer to be in the paper.
Thank you for that information. ~Pandora~