Neighborhood officer killed – by another cop? (1940)
Shockoe Examiner is back with another slice of Richmond history: “Tibbs’s story, cut short at age 37, was one of a hard working cop trying...
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Dentist poisons young wife (1917)
The Shockoe Examiner has the story of a neighborhood drama from more than a century ago: “Saturday night, December 15, 1917, was cold and cheerless...
Daubrenet Mortuary Chapel at Oakwood Cemetery is wasting away
Folks over at the Shockoe Examiner covered an interesting story about the Daubrenet Mortuary Chapel at Oakwood Cemetery. The fate of one of the rarest...
Aerial photo of St. John’s taken from from a blimp in September 1920
VIEW LARGER Aerial photo of St. John’s taken from from a blimp in September 1920, via Shockoe Examiner’s “When Dirigible Airships filled Richmond’s skies –...
Film of Richmond in the early 1900s
The Shockoe Examiner is back and amazing: Richmond Movies Online is a link to a repository of short films showing RVA in the first decades...
Lillian Madison (June 25, 1863 – March 13, 1885)
The Shockoe Examiner tells the tale of “one of the most famous Richmond murder cases of its time”....