About
American criminal and co-conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln who was sentenced to death by hanging in 1865.
Before Fame
He was a con man who sold so-called "Indian herbs" to unsuspecting patrons.
Trivia
He is one of the people theorized to have been the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper.
Family Life
He was the sixth of eleven children born to Adam and Mary Porter Herold.
Associated With
He and John Wilkes Booth conspired to kill President Lincoln.
