Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html On This Day in True Crime History – 15 October Blog Dark Stories True Crime Tours Saddleworth Moor Gives Up a Victim of the Moors Murders A Doctor Fooled Twice: Martha Rendell and the Second Child to Die of Diphtheria He Called It an Accident. The Jury Called It Murder: Robert Landells Hanged at Melbourne Gaol A Tearful Confession in Custody Cracked the Case: Two Men Hanged at Perth Gaol for Eating their Victim Sullivan Gang Bushrangers Hanged Near Parramatta, One Sobbing to the Last The Gun That Misfired Twice: Three Bushrangers Hanged Outside Sydney The First Free Settler Murdered in the Colony: Hanged at Sydney for a Parramatta Stabbing The Queen Who Apologised to Her Executioner: the Execution of Marie Antoinette Eyes Removed, Organs Eaten: Andrei Chikatilo Convicted of 52 Murders in Rostov Caroline Grills Laughed During Her Own Trial for Poisoning Mata Hari Executed by Firing Squad as a German Spy in Paris A Father Who Watched Him Hang: James Gardiner Executed at Brisbane for Killing German Ada “I Am Sorry I Did Not Kill Him”: a Convict Hanged at Perth for a Shovel Attack on a Warder Hanged at Perth, William Dodd Spent His Final Words Blaming an Innocent Man The Wife Who Forged a Will and Bought a Murderer: Bridget Hurford Hanged at Perth Kidnappers Bay: Captain Cook Names a New Zealand Inlet After a Botched Abduction On This Day in True Crime History – 14 October A Hit List and a Dropped Gun: the Adelaide Murder of Dr Margaret Tobin Shot Dead in His Own Bed: A Melbourne Gangland Killing Blamed on a Friend Melbourne Gangland War: Dino Dibra Ambushed and Shot Dead Outside His Own Home It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose: the Shooting of Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee On This Day in True Crime History – 16 October Facing the Noose Near Perth, He Believed He Would Return A Queen on Trial for Her Life: Mary, Queen of Scots, Faces the Crown She Threatened On This Day in True Crime History – 12 October Timed to Kill the Survivors: the Bali Nightclub Bombings On This Day in True Crime History – 13 October The Shooting at Gladstone Park That Lit the Fuse on the Melbourne Gangland War A Bloodstained Scrap of Shirt: the Zodiac Killer Mails Proof to a San Francisco Newsroom Keep Away From Women: the Final Warning Scrawled on a Cell Wall Before a Hanging at Hobart Thomas Airey Hanged at Perth Gaol Just Months After Winning His Freedom Freed From Servitude, Then Hanged: John Caldwell Executed at Perth for Assault Jackey Jackey: the Bushranger Hanged on Norfolk Island for the Cooking Pot Uprising Over Confiscated Kettles: Twelve Hanged on Norfolk Island After a Convict Mutiny Friday the 13th: King Philip the Fair Orders the Arrest of the Knights Templar The Melbourne Police Killings: Acquitted, Then Named Guilty by His Own Wife The Brighton Bomb: the IRA Attempt to Wipe Out Margaret Thatcher and Her Cabinet Live on Air: the Televised Assassination of a Japanese Political Leader Spared the Noose: a Jury's Mercy Rider Saved a Perth Father Who Killed His Family Born in Venezuela: the Birth of Carlos the Jackal, the Worlds Most Wanted Terrorist The Rock Becomes a Fortress: the U.S. Government Claims Alcatraz Island The Vicious Horse Lie: a Convict Hanged for an Axe Murder at Albany Nobody Believed Him: An Innocent Man Hanged at Perth for a Murder He Did Not Commit Hanged for Ten Shillings: a Sydney Robber Who Stabbed an Old Man with a Broken Hinge On This Day in True Crime History – 11 October Myra Hindley Arrested as a Tape Recording Exposes Her Role in the Moors Murders Thomas Reeves: The Notorious Highwayman and Footpad