• Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson and her roommate Bridget Fury were known for their rough and tumble ways in and out of the bedroom. Known as the “Scourge of Gallatin Street”, Bricktop was a gruff and robust woman with flaming red hair who could beat any woman, or man, in a brawl. She murdered four (that we know of) men, and stabbed and beat many others. One brave man decided that he could call Bricktop a “whore” and get away with it, he was clubbed to death. A man said to be 7 feet tall by the name of “Long Charley” was stabbed with Bricktop’s weapon of choice. Her trusty knife had a heavy 5 inch blade on either side with a center grip made of German silver. This custom knife allowed her to stab and slash in any direction without having to adjust the position of her hand. Bricktop joined forces with a man named John Miller, a former boxer and misfit who lost an arm in a fight. Instead of getting an artificial arm, John made a spiked ball and chain outfitted for his stump. I am sure they made quite the couple, turning heads as they walked down the street arm in arm...I mean chain? But their affection for each other didn’t last long, when in 1861 John Miller tried to “crack the whip” (a cowhide whip) on Bricktop after a domestic dispute. She apparently turned the whip on him, giving him quite the flogging. In defense, John tried to use his ball and chain on Bricktop, she quickly used his weapon against him, dragging him across the room, then when he tried to stab her, she bit his hand and used the knife to stab him repeatedly until he was dead. Mary Jane Jackson was sent off to prison for the murder of John Miller and was never seen or heard from again. #truecrime #nola #neworleans #louisiana #writersofinstagram
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    Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson and her roommate Bridget Fury were known for their rough and tumble ways in and out of the bedroom. Known as the “Scourge of Gallatin Street”, Bricktop was a gruff and robust woman with flaming red hair who could beat any woman, or man, in a brawl. She murdered four (that we know of) men, and stabbed and beat many others. One brave man decided that he could call Bricktop a “whore” and get away with it, he was clubbed to death. A man said to be 7 feet tall by the name of “Long Charley” was stabbed with Bricktop’s weapon of choice. Her trusty knife had a heavy 5 inch blade on either side with a center grip made of German silver. This custom knife allowed her to stab and slash in any direction without having to adjust the position of her hand. Bricktop joined forces with a man named John Miller, a former boxer and misfit who lost an arm in a fight. Instead of getting an artificial arm, John made a spiked ball and chain outfitted for his stump. I am sure they made quite the couple, turning heads as they walked down the street arm in arm...I mean chain? But their affection for each other didn’t last long, when in 1861 John Miller tried to “crack the whip” (a cowhide whip) on Bricktop after a domestic dispute. She apparently turned the whip on him, giving him quite the flogging. In defense, John tried to use his ball and chain on Bricktop, she quickly used his weapon against him, dragging him across the room, then when he tried to stab her, she bit his hand and used the knife to stab him repeatedly until he was dead. Mary Jane Jackson was sent off to prison for the murder of John Miller and was never seen or heard from again. #truecrime #nola #neworleans #louisiana #writersofinstagram
  • I went outside to take a picture of our blooming magnolia tree and discovered this little guy grasping one of the unopened blooms. Dragonfly’s have always been a reminder to me that my grandmother is around, she loved dragonfly’s and always pointed out their bright and amazing colors and the soft buzzing sound they made as they hovered over the damp grass near the lake she lived on. Every major turning point in my life, dragonfly’s have been present. Thanks for the reminder grandma, I love and miss you. #dragonfly #magnoliatree #blooming #spring #grandma #visions #memories #imissher
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    I went outside to take a picture of our blooming magnolia tree and discovered this little guy grasping one of the unopened blooms. Dragonfly’s have always been a reminder to me that my grandmother is around, she loved dragonfly’s and always pointed out their bright and amazing colors and the soft buzzing sound they made as they hovered over the damp grass near the lake she lived on. Every major turning point in my life, dragonfly’s have been present. Thanks for the reminder grandma, I love and miss you. #dragonfly #magnoliatree #blooming #spring #grandma #visions #memories #imissher
  • On the crisp evening of October 26th, 1927, we find Henry Moity pacing outside the bedroom of his small upstairs apartment at 715 Ursulines Ave. His wife, Theresa, and three young children are asleep in bed, and his sister-in-law Leonide (aka Lonie) is asleep in the room across the hall. Henry is seething with anger at the argument he had with his wife earlier in the evening. “I contemplated, for a moment, on killing the children and then myself. But I changed my mind when I imagined her running around with her lover, Joseph Caruso”; Henry later told of his moments outside of the bedroom that night, right before he took his cane knife out of hiding and decided to use it. An excerpt from my piece on The New Orleans Trunk Murders of 1927. #writersofinstagram #truecrime #neworleans #nola #frenchquarter #neworleanshistory #murder #crime
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    On the crisp evening of October 26th, 1927, we find Henry Moity pacing outside the bedroom of his small upstairs apartment at 715 Ursulines Ave. His wife, Theresa, and three young children are asleep in bed, and his sister-in-law Leonide (aka Lonie) is asleep in the room across the hall. Henry is seething with anger at the argument he had with his wife earlier in the evening. “I contemplated, for a moment, on killing the children and then myself. But I changed my mind when I imagined her running around with her lover, Joseph Caruso”; Henry later told of his moments outside of the bedroom that night, right before he took his cane knife out of hiding and decided to use it. An excerpt from my piece on The New Orleans Trunk Murders of 1927. #writersofinstagram #truecrime #neworleans #nola #frenchquarter #neworleanshistory #murder #crime
  • “Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.” -Christopher Heyerdahl #louisiana #myrtlesplantation #acadiana #stfrancisville #plantationhomes #southern #swamp
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    “Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.” -Christopher Heyerdahl #louisiana #myrtlesplantation #acadiana #stfrancisville #plantationhomes #southern #swamp
  • A blustery day in Louisiana. #louisiana #themyrtlesplantation #travel #spanishmoss #southerncharm
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    A blustery day in Louisiana. #louisiana #themyrtlesplantation #travel #spanishmoss #southerncharm
  • The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, LA. Spanish moss swaying on the tree limbs, a breeze keeping everything cool, and a day with my family... #louisiana #plantationhomes #themyrtlesplantation #travel #travelphotography
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    The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, LA. Spanish moss swaying on the tree limbs, a breeze keeping everything cool, and a day with my family... #louisiana #plantationhomes #themyrtlesplantation #travel #travelphotography
  • What’s Kristen writing at work today? Hint: it involves a grisly French Quarter murder of two young women in the 1920s who were hastily dismembered and stuffed in trunks, left to rot. It happened on Ursuline Avenue, where two other similar murders have taken place over the last century, just doors from each other on the same street... #nola #neworleans #truecrime #murder #writersofinstagram #myjob #crime
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    What’s Kristen writing at work today? Hint: it involves a grisly French Quarter murder of two young women in the 1920s who were hastily dismembered and stuffed in trunks, left to rot. It happened on Ursuline Avenue, where two other similar murders have taken place over the last century, just doors from each other on the same street... #nola #neworleans #truecrime #murder #writersofinstagram #myjob #crime