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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 3 |
| 1858 | 5 |
| 1859 | 8 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 11 |
| 1862 | 12 |
| 1863 | 6 |
| 1864 | 6 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 19 |
| 1876 | 135 |
| 1877 | 111 |
| 1878 | 80 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 28 |
| 1882 | 27 |
| 1883 | 161 |
| 1884 | 62 |
| 1885 | 150 |
| 1886 | 98 |
| 1887 | 111 |
| 1888 | 85 |
| 1889 | 232 |
| 1890 | 36 |
| 1891 | 186 |
| 1892 | 481 |
| 1893 | 434 |
| 1894 | 378 |
| 1895 | 403 |
| 1897 | 8 |
| 1898 | 29 |
| 1899 | 79 |
| 1900 | 14 |
| 1902 | 11 |
| 1903 | 170 |
| 1904 | 182 |
| 1905 | 13 |
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 49 |
| 1909 | 171 |
| 1910 | 25 |
| 1911 | 9 |
| 1912 | 4 |
| 1914 | 28 |
| 1915 | 34 |
| 1916 | 53 |
| 1917 | 29 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 17 |
| 1924 | 16 |
| 1925 | 8 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
4,237 stories matching found
- A Nameless End in the Horse Heaven Hills
A stranger is found in a deserted sheep-camp shack, leaving behind no clues, no name, and no family to claim him.
- Wealthy Miner Found Stupor-Struck in Seattle Lodging
After arriving from the North with $10,000, a miner is found penniless and in a stupor; his hosts are arrested for robbery.
- The Tragedy of a Forgotten Tenant
A woman who recently arrived in Seattle is found dead in her lonely boarding house, highlighting the indifference of a growing city.
- The Coupling Pin Murder: Unidentified Man Found Slain Near Thorp
A well-dressed stranger, brutally beaten and stripped of identifying papers, is found dead along the Northern Pacific tracks—his killer still at large.
- The Unexplained Ending at Snoqualmie
A local saloon keeper was found dead with a bullet through his heart, leaving behind a revolver six feet away and a town full of questions.
- An Unknown Man Found Dead in South Seattle
A woman discovering a man's body in the brush near a local spring leads to an investigation that unearths a tragic, nameless end.
- The Regents Park Mystery
A contractor was found murdered in a thicket, his body showing signs of a struggle and an attempt at concealment.
- The Ghost of Old Town's Gulch
A man's decomposed body is found in a desolate ravine near Old Town, accompanied by a revolver and a notebook from Minnesota.
- A Trapper Walked Into the Snow and Never Came Back
William McKeiver’s cabin was found in good order, his rifle untouched, and his diary blank since November. Cougar tracks circled the traps.
- The Tragic Discovery of Francis Eurle
A desperate man is found barely alive, hidden away in a remote straw stack in Washington Territory.
- The Man Who Vanished Into the Fog: A Barber’s Final Journey
Coroner Cross and Dr. Root piece together the identity of a decomposed body found near Salmon Bay, linking it to a boarder at the Commercial Hotel who may have taken his own life with morphine.
- Diver Dies in Tragic Salvage Attempt
A rescue operation to right the sunken Umatilla ends in a gruesome accident when a diver is found dead after a communication line fails.
- The Stranger in the Basket
A disoriented woman arrives at the St. Charles Hotel, sparking a frantic search for her family in a city still finding its footing.
- The Unsolved Killing of Joseph Martin
A pioneer of Stevens County is found dead in his bed in a scene that suggests a deadly betrayal rather than the suicide police originally suspected.
- Logger Leon Richards Found Slain on Mercer Island
A logger missing for a month is found dead in Lake Washington, revealing a brutal struggle and a connection to a local counterfeiting ring.
- He Asked the Way Across the River and Was Never Seen Alive Again
A Whidbey Island man headed to the Yakima country to look at a farm, asked where to ford the river, misunderstood the directions, and drowned—his horse found wandering in the sagebrush two days later.
- Native man’s accidental drowning in the Snohomish River
A local man is found drowned after his canoe was discovered drifting empty on the river.
- The Nameless Grave by the Tulalip
A grim discovery near Marysville reveals the quiet tragedy of a life ending in the river woods.
- The Unidentified Man in the Brush
A decomposing body found in the northern woods of Seattle leaves behind only a silver watch and a curious note.
- A Miner Goes to His Claim and Is Found Dead in the Woods
Joseph Gotchy of Bothell vanished between home and a Woodinville-area mining claim, leaving a widow, a large family and no explanation.
- The Tragic End of William Hill
The body of a Scottish laborer is discovered floating near the Seattle city front, leaving behind a simple will and a recommendation from a Victoria hotel.
- The Woman in Black and the Newborn Left for Dead
A Seattle coroner concludes that an infant found at a street corner was killed at birth by a blow to the skull. Detectives have no suspect, only a frustrated clue about a woman in black.
- A Soldier's Solitary End
The tragic discovery of a soldier found hanging at the government wharf.
- The Unsolved Execution at Green River
A lonely homesteader is found dead in the woods, his cabin undisturbed and his secrets kept, sparking a flurry of local suspicion.
- Caught in the Shaft: A Tacoma Oiler's Death Nobody Saw
Fred Smith went to work at three in the morning at the St. Paul Tacoma Lumber mill. Two and a half hours later his workmates noticed he was missing — and found him beside the shaft he had been oiling.