Tag: Crime | Park City Museum

That Fateful Night

Forty years ago this week, on a Sunday afternoon, July 19, 1981, the Beach Boys were playing…

Joe Brandl was a popular figure in Park City from the 1890s through 1910. A butcher for…

The Park City Museum recently hosted a lecture on a series of murders in Park City, the…

This story is continued from June 19, 2019. Reeling from the death of his five-year-old daughter, Rockport,…

Through films, reality TV, and media the phrase ‘snitches get stitches’ has entered the lexicon of everyday…

“One of the most foul and cowardly murders that has ever darkened the criminal record of Park…

Public health became an increasingly prevalent concern in the United States in the late nineteenth century. As…

268 Main Street is one of Park City’s oldest buildings. Originally constructed in the early 1880s, it…

Many argued that the prohibition of intoxicating beverages, implemented throughout Utah in 1917 and nation-wide in 1920,…

Deep in the middle of the night in mid-July of 1882, men were roused from their sleep…

In November 1887, citizens of Park City were shocked to learn of the attempted poisoning murder of…

As 2015 draws to a close, we recognize that, like any year, it had its ups and…

There were over twenty bars on Park City's Main Street in the early 1900s. Of them all,…

Marie Arthur, our “woman slayer” from last week, was back in the headlines in 1916, just over…

Ten years before Chicago’s Murderess Row inspired the play, and later musical, Chicago, Park City had its…

"Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." On…

Nearly 10 million emigrants left Ireland over a two hundred year period that began around 1700 and…

If you were hiking in the mountains one summer day and you stumbled upon a still supervised…