Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)

# Summary Diarmid Mogg purchased a collection of vintage mug shots from New Castle, Pennsylvania on eBay and became fascinated by the stories behind them. Using arrest cards and newspaper archives, he traced one photograph of Martin Fobes back to 1948, discovering it was connected to the mysterious death of an eighteen-year-old girl named Anna Grace Robertson who was found battered in the street. The article explores how these historical mug shots serve as windows into ordinary lives and forgotten crimes from small-town America.