1849: Edgar Allan Poe Found Delirious on the Streets of Baltimore, Maryland: His Final Days Remain a Mystery
Edgar Allan Poe vanished for nearly a week before he turned up outside a Baltimore, Maryland tavern being used as a polling place, incoherent and wearing clothes that were not his own. Read more →
1853: A Hanged Bushranger’s Corpse Put on Display in a Melbourne Shop Window
Within hours of his execution, the body of bushranger George Melville was handed to his widow, decorated with ribbons and laid out in the window of their oyster shop in Little Bourke Street. Read more →
1960: Breathing for Seven Hours: The Forensic Test That Disproved a Kidnappers Alibi in the Graeme Thorne Murder
In July 1960, nine-year-old Graeme Thorne was snatched from a street in Sydney‘s Bondi, Australia’s first known kidnap for ransom case, and murdered within a day. Read more →
