On This Day in True Crime History – 16 August

1820: Rebecca Worlock Hanged at Gloucester Prison for Poisoning Her Husband

Rebecca Worlock, a 37-year-old mother of three from Oldland and Bitton in Gloucestershire, poisoned her husband Thomas with arsenic in April 1820. Read more →

1992: The First Victim of the Snowtown Bodies in Barrels Killers

In August 1992, John Justin Bunting bashed the first of what would become twelve murder victims to death with a hammer at his home in Salisbury North, north of Adelaide. Read more →

2006: John Mark Karr Arrested in Thailand Over the JonBenet Ramsey Murder

Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, on 26 December 1996. Read more →

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