Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Sydney Harbour’s True Crime Walking Tour Told to Dig a Hole in the Dark: the Stepson Who Undid Eugenia Falleni in the “Man-Woman” Trial at Darlinghurst Blog Dark Stories True Crime Tours On This Day in True Crime History – 30 September On This Day in True Crime History – 2 October On This Day in True Crime History – 1 October The Banknote Clue That Could Have Caught the Yorkshire Ripper Years Early Nixon Walked Free on a Pardon While His Own Attorney General Went to Prison: the Watergate Cover-Up Trial 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 He Prayed for His Own Son to Die: A Fatalist Hanged at Melbourne Gaol for Murder He Sharpened His Knife for Days: A Jealous Rockhampton Murder Ends on the Gallows at Brisbane The Sussex Street Mystery: Sydney’s Inquest Returns a Verdict of Wilful Murder 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 He Only Aimed for the Knees: John Newing Hanged for Murder Anyway Timothy Sullivan Cried “Robbers, Robbers” While Beating an Old Shepherd to Death She Watched Her Friend Killed and Waited for the Killers: A Woman Hanged at Hobart “I Have Killed Biddy, and Am Going to Deliver Myself Up”: A Hawkesbury Murderer Hanged at Sydney A Mayflower Pilgrim Becomes the First Man Hanged in the New World Colonies 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 On This Day in True Crime History – 29 September Killed Behind Bars: Matthew Johnson Convicted of Murdering Gangland Assassin Carl Williams Seven Dead, No One Ever Charged: the Chicago Tylenol Poisonings The Great Escape: 38 IRA Prisoners Break Out of the Maze in Britain’s Largest Prison Breakout Ned Kelly’s Executioner Jailed for Indecent Exposure in Melbourne The Vatican Cover-Up That Fuelled a Poisoning Legend: the Death of Pope John Paul I Executed as Reform Martyrs, But Were They Assassins? The Beheading of Six Gentlemen in Beijing Being Drunk Was No Excuse: A Husband Hanged at Maitland for Beating His Wife to Death The Five-Pound Threshold: Two Men Hanged at Sydney for Burglary The Informer They Called Kangaroo Jack: Silenced in the Bush Near Bathurst The Bushranger Who Apologised Mid-Robbery, Then Hanged at Sydney Moondyne Joe Caught 322 Kilometres From Perth While Trying to Walk to Adelaide On This Day in True Crime History – 27 September The Birth of Scotland Yard: London Gets Its First Modern Police Force On This Day in True Crime History – 28 September The Zodiac Killer Leaves His Own Scorecard Written on a Victim’s Car Door The Warren Commission Declares Lee Harvey Oswald the Lone Gunman in the Kennedy Assassination Wild Bill Hickok Shoots Cowboy Dead During Saloon Disturbance Bribery Couldn’t Save Them: Two Men Hanged at Castle Hill for a Hawkesbury Robbery William Burridge: The Soldier Turned Highwayman President McKinley’s Killer Sentenced to Death After Jury Deliberates Barely an Hour On This Day in True Crime History – 26 September The Same Calendar Date, Six Years Apart: Harold Shipman Killed Two Elderly Patients in Hyde Nine Minutes on the Gallows: the Longest Last Speech in Melbourne History President McKinley’s Killer Sentenced to Death After Jury Deliberates Barely an Hour He Stood at the Roadside as the Body Went By: a Brisbane Teenager Hanged for Murder The Man They Could Not Hang: Joseph Samuel Survives Three Executions at Sydney