Bella Boyce was only 22 years old when her life ended in one of Philadelphia’s most horrifying domestic murders. On May 7, 1903, Bella lay in bed in the small third-floor room she shared with her common-law husband, Charles Yarnall, inside a crowded boarding house. After a violent argument, Yarnall poured coal oil from a lamp over her clothing and returned with a match. Within seconds Bella was engulfed in flames, running into the hallway screaming while other boarders tried desperately to put t