WARWICK, R.I. — A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet’s oldest cold cases.

Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Historical accounts say Every's band tortured and killed passengers ...

George E. Matteson spent decades roaming the back roads of western Rhode Island, creating hand-drawn maps that are a repository of local lore. A typical Matteson map, printed around the middle of ...

Henry Every vanished into the wind. WARWICK, R.I. — A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve ...

Since then, other detectorists have unearthed 15 additional Arabian coins from the same era — 10 in Massachusetts, three in Rhode Island and two in Connecticut. Another was found in North ...