Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 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 Spurned, He Killed Her With an Axe and Tried to Burn Away the Evidence: Hanged in Brisbane He Helped Murder a Policeman, Then Willed His Estate to the Widow Hanged for a Penknife and Five Shillings: John Dykes, the Gambler Turned Highwayman On This Day in True Crime History – 22 October The Hillside Strangler Was Two Men: Kenneth Bianchi Named His Own Cousin to Save Himself Caught Serving Poisoned Tea: Martha Needle Hanged in Melbourne for a Family Poisoning Spree Mutilated to Frame a Maori Attack: the Family Murder That Nearly Sparked War in Auckland Beaten Unconscious Within Sight of the Gaol Wall: Hanged in Sydney for a Brutal Robbery On This Day in True Crime History – 21 October Paralympic Star Oscar Pistorius Sentenced to Five Years for Killing Reeva Steenkamp The Moors Murders: John Kilbride Found on Saddleworth Moor, Identified Only by His Clothes The Scaffold Confession That Exposed a Wrongful Transportation by a Bushranger A Dream Diary Written in Kangaroo Blood: the Death of Bushranger Michael Howe On This Day in True Crime History – 20 October Melbourne Gangland War: Gerardo Mannella Gunned Down Fleeing His Brother’s Killers Harold Shipman Killed His 55th Patient, a Decade Before Anyone Stopped Him Forced to Write Home That She Had Gone Away: a Perth Murder by the Birnies The Light in the Window: Hanged in Melbourne for a Plot Hatched with His Married Lover “Hung for Her Like a Man”: The Vow Before a Brutal Axe Murder and Hanging in Hobart He Swallowed Her Earrings to Hide the Evidence: Hanged at Geelong for the Green Tent Murder On This Day in True Crime History – 19 October The Trial of Saddam Hussein Begins Over Crimes Against Humanity Melbourne Gangland Victim Found Executed with His Partner in Their Own Home The Confession That Was Buried for 12 Years: the Guildford Four Finally Freed Nixon Defies the Courts: the Watergate Tapes Standoff That Doomed a Presidency Dark Stories True Crime Tours Blog