1803: Masked Robbers Bound a Family and Threatened to Drown Them for Money They Did Not Have
One night in May 1803, two masked men forced their way into the Hawkesbury home of Charles Palmer and his wife, clubbing both with the handle of an axe until Palmer lay senseless for two hours. Read more →
1849: Found Delirious in Someone Else’s Clothes: the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was discovered slumped outside a Baltimore tavern being used as a polling place, barely conscious and dressed in clothes that were not his own. Read more →
1854: The Suspicious Acquittal That Set a Ballarat Pub Ablaze and Lit the Fuse for the Eureka Stockade
James Scobie, a Scottish gold miner, was killed outside Bentley’s Hotel at Ballarat on this date after he and a companion found the pub shut and tried to get in. Read more →
1965: The Bread Van Disguise That Unmasked Moors Murderer Ian Brady
One October night in 1965, Ian Brady and his lover Myra Hindley brought a seventeen-year-old back to their home near Manchester, where Brady killed him with an axe in front of Hindley’s brother-in-law, David Smith, whom they had wrongly taken for a kindIan Brady and Myra Hindley brought 17-year-old Edward Evans back to their home near Manchester after Brady had approached him at Manchester Central station. Read more →
2005: WA Serial Killer Found Dead in a Perth Prison Cell
David Birnie and his partner Catherine abducted and murdered four women around Perth in 1986, in what became known as the Moorhouse murders. Read more →
