On This Day in True Crime History – 16 September

1811: A Last-Minute Recantation at the Gallows Delays the Execution of John Dunn at Parramatta

John Dunn, Thomas Welch and Ann Wilson were charged before the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction at Parramatta with the murder of Mary Rowe. Read more →

1920: The Wagon That Vanished: New York’s Unsolved Wall Street Bombing

At 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn wagon parked across from the J.P. Read more →

2002: The Monster Butler Archibald Hall Dies in Prison as the Oldest Whole-Life Inmate in Britain

Archibald Hall began as a teenage thief in Glasgow before reinventing himself behind bars, studying antiques and taking elocution lessons to erase his Scottish accent. Read more →

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