Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Banknote Clue That Could Have Caught the Yorkshire Ripper Years Early Blog Dark Stories True Crime Tours On This Day in True Crime History – 5 October Timestamps Do Not Lie: the Software Trail That Caught Harold Shipman Lured by a Tyre Ad: the First Victim of the Perth Birnie Killings The Body Was in the Backyard the Whole Time: a Melbourne Wife Murder Hidden in a Barrel for Two Decades The Kidnapping That Triggered Martial Law in Peacetime Canada The Teacher Who Kicked a Hole in the Kidnappers’ Van and Saved Six Children The Situation Got Out of Hand: A Moors Murder Committed Before a Horrified Witness Aunt Thally Was Still Pouring Tea for Fellow Inmates the Day She Died in Prison A 20-Year Disguise Unravels: Eugenia Falleni Convicted of Murdering the Wife Who Never Knew The Acid “Cure”: Martha Rendell Hanged at Fremantle for Poisoning Her Stepson A Firewood Hunt Led to Two More Bodies in Belanglo Forest Kate Kelly, Sister of Bushranger Ned Kelly, Vanishes Eighteen Years After His Hanging He Survived a Notorious Convict Voyage to Sydney, Then Was Hanged for Burglary “I Wonder How Many More Times?”: George Dean Rearrested in a Sydney Poison Case America’s First Train Robbery: the Reno Gang Strikes Near Seymour, Indiana The Last Outlaw Surrenders: Frank James Hands Over a Gun Untouched Since 1861 Nixon Walked Free on a Pardon While His Own Attorney General Went to Prison: the Watergate Cover-Up Trial The Price of an English Bible: William Tyndale Strangled and Burned for Heresy Told to Dig a Hole in the Dark: the Stepson Who Undid Eugenia Falleni in the “Man-Woman” Trial at Darlinghurst Sydney Harbour’s True Crime Walking Tour A Mercy Petition Backed by the Bishop of Adelaide Could Not Save a Man From the Gallows He Prayed for His Own Son to Die: A Fatalist Hanged at Melbourne Gaol for Murder Robbed of Ten Days: When Pope Gregory XIII Erased a Fortnight From the Calendar On This Day in True Crime History – 1 October On This Day in True Crime History – 6 October On This Day in True Crime History – 2 October The Woman Who Escaped Ted Bundy Fought Back and Identified Him in a Lineup Vanished in Utah: the Teenager Ted Bundy Later Confessed to Killing The Sussex Street Mystery: Sydney’s Inquest Returns a Verdict of Wilful Murder The Mob Wanted to Lynch Him on the Spot: A Bushranger Hanged at Maitland for Murdering a Brave Drover The Batavia Massacre: First European Executions on Australian Soil “I Come From a Race That Will Not Take an Insult”: Hanged at Melbourne Gaol for a Double Murder He Was Fed Breakfast, Then Declared Himself a Bushranger and Shot His Host On This Day in True Crime History – 3 October “If It Doesn’t Fit, You Must Acquit”: O.J. Simpson Walks Free Breathing for Seven Hours: The Forensic Test That Disproved a Kidnappers Alibi in the Graeme Thorne Murder A Hanged Bushranger’s Corpse Put on Display in a Melbourne Shop Window Edgar Allan Poe Found Delirious on the Streets of Baltimore, Maryland: His Final Days Remain a Mystery On This Day in True Crime History – 30 September He Sharpened His Knife for Days: A Jealous Rockhampton Murder Ends on the Gallows at Brisbane John Thomson: Sailor Turned Highway Robber The Double Event: Jack the Ripper Kills Twice in One Night in London He Wept After Being Punched, Then Fetched a Hammer: a Melbourne Racing-Yard Killing On This Day in True Crime History – 4 October He Only Aimed for the Knees: John Newing Hanged for Murder Anyway Timothy Sullivan Cried “Robbers, Robbers” While Beating an Old Shepherd to Death The Devoted Wife Who Poisoned Her Husband in Melbourne, Then Killed Three More