Abel Bodied: Murder at the Malden Bank

If I were to ask you where the first bank robbery murder took place in the United States, your mind would naturally travel to the Old West. But the first murder during a bank robbery actually occurred in Malden, Massachusetts on December 15, 1863. And the perpetrator was far from a famed gunslinger. However, he was someone just as dangerous - a desperate opportunist. At the time, Malden, a few miles north of Boston, was an idyllic, growing town. The battlefields of the Civil War, where able...