Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html On This Day in True Crime History – 27 October Ivan Milat Maintained His Innocence to the End, But Confessed to His Mother Gunmen Storm the Armenian Parliament and Kill the Prime Minister on Live Television The Zodiac Killer Mocks the Reporter Chasing Him The Last Gamble of Squizzy Taylor: a Bedroom Shootout in Melbourne Laid Up with Influenza, Snowy Cutmore Was Shot Dead in His Sickbed by Squizzy Taylor His Final Wish Was to See the Widow Once More: a Japanese Fisherman Hanged in Fremantle I Expect the Rope for It’: Henry Sherry Hanged in Perth for a Failed Death Pact The Dream That Led to a Body: William Page Hanged at Mount Gambier for the Murder of Mary Buchan The Bullet That Shaved His Whiskers: “Long Mickey” Hanged at Oatlands for Murder The Bullet That Shaved His Whiskers: “Long Mickey” Hanged at Oatlands for Murder Abandoned by His Own Chaplain: A Shepherd Hanged at Oatlands for a Poisoning Plot A Razor Hidden in His Pocket: Hanged at Oatlands for Slashing a Constable Across the Face Escaped Convict Turns on His Captor: A Fatal Stabbing on the Road to Newcastle The False Confession That Sent an Innocent Man to the Gallows for the Great Fire of London James Booty: The Young Ravisher of Holborn He Escaped the Gallows Once: Patrick Mahon Finally Hanged at Oatlands On This Day in True Crime History – 26 October Gas Over Bullets: the Moscow Theatre Siege Ends in Mass Death The Spy Chief Who Shot His Own President at a Blue House Dinner Eric Edgar Cooke Hanged in Fremantle: the Serial Killer Whose Confessions Freed Two Innocent Men Marshal Zhukov Returns From a Foreign Trip to Find Himself Purged by Khrushchev Thirty Seconds of Gunfire: the Shootout at the O.K. Corral Three Policemen Killed: The Kelly Gang’s Deadly Ambush at Stringybark Creek He Escaped the Gallows Once: Patrick Mahon Finally Hanged at Oatlands On This Day in True Crime History – 25 October The Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, Executed in Florida for a Weekend of Campus Murders Framed for a Killing He Did Not Commit: Carl Williams Ordered This Melbourne Hit The Lord High Executioner of Murder Inc Gunned Down in a Barbers Chair The Gold He Took to His Grave: Two Men Hanged in Fremantle for Killing Two Police Officers Mutiny on the Brisbane River: the Captain Who Threatened to Turn His Guns on Parliament Hanged in Brisbane After a Feverish Stockman Shot the Manager Who Denied Him Hospital Hanged in Perth, Each Still Blaming the Other to the End The Young Witness Testifies: Alexander Ram Hanged in Melbourne for Murdering Kitty Hennessy “I Would Finish You Now”: Hanged in Melbourne for the Murder of His Mistress Sentenced to Hang in Launceston, a Convicted Stabber Learned He Had Inherited a Fortune On This Day in True Crime History – 24 October Fifty Notebooks of Confession: the Trial of Dennis Nilsen Begins George Dean, Pardoned for Poisoning His Wife, Convicted of Perjury in Sydney A Mutilated Body in a Trunk: Sailor Hanged in Brisbane for Murder at Sea “The Only Man on the Station That I Liked”: Hanged in Brisbane for a Torres Strait Murder He Swore to Shoot Whoever Bought His Farm, and Kept His Word: Hanged in Melbourne “Thank You, My Lord, I Am Very Glad of That Sentence”: Bushrangers Hanged in Melbourne On This Day in True Crime History – 23 October The Trunk Murderess Dies on the Exact Anniversary of Her Own Surrender Before He Was Son of Sam: the 44 Calibre Killer Strikes a Parked Car in Queens The Confession Note Fished From a Department Store Sink That Caught the Trunk Murderess The Confession That Confessed Nothing: Hanged in Fremantle for the Waroona Farm Murder Dark Stories True Crime Tours Blog