Category Archives: Deaths

Dundalk Funeral Home Features Orioles Caskets, Camo Caskets and Ravens Funerals

Dundalk funeral home owner featured in new ESPN commercial By Jack Lambert (Baltimore Business Journal, 8/1/2012) Michael Phelps isn’t the only Baltimorean on television these days. Chuck Kaczorowski, chairman of Kaczorowski Funeral Home in Dundalk, is among the stars in … Continue reading

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Accused Maryland Cannibal’s Online Postings Show Him In War Paint

By Justin Fenton (The Baltimore Sun, 6/1/2012) For an image to accompany his “Warrior Syndicate” Internet radio show, alleged cannibal Alexander Kinyua apparently chose a photo of his face covered in green and white war paint. The show, he said, … Continue reading

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Chubby from ‘Our Gang’ Falls Ill, 1935

“Norman Chaney, child movie star, is mysteriously ill in a Baltimore hospital with a glandular ailment which cut short his movie career two and a half years ago. Chaney, known as “Chubby” in “Our Gang” pictures, at 17 is four … Continue reading

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Is the Edgar Allan Poe House haunted?

By Anthony C. Hayes (Baltimore Post-Examiner, 5/11/2012) Jeff Jerome is often asked if he’s ever spent a night in The Edgar Allan Poe House. His answer has always been a whimsical, “No.” But any lingering regrets on the part of … Continue reading

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