Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html 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 Richard Whittingham: The Young Footpad of London’s Streets 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 Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested in an Atlanta Sit-In, Then Sentenced to Hard Labour The Poison Toad Theory Behind the Death of King John of England On This Day in True Crime History – 18 October The Granny Killer Survivor Whose Broken Memory Sent Police the Wrong Way The Hillside Stranglers Claim Their First Victim in Los Angeles The Bushranger Who Vanished: Larry Cummins Died in Wodonga Under a Stolen Name The Informer Who Refused to Kill: Two Bushrangers Hanged Near Sydney On This Day in True Crime History – 17 October The Steamer Trunk in the Closet: Ira Einhorn Convicted of Murdering Holly Maddux The Tax Case That Brought Down Al Capone: 11 Years for the Most Famous Gangster in America Without Seeking Permission: the Settler Camp Behind the Cullin-la-Ringo Massacre The First White Man Hanged in Perth for Killing an Aboriginal Man An Acquittal Sparks a Riot: Ten Thousand Miners Burn the Eureka Hotel at Ballarat On This Day in True Crime History – 16 October Shot Dead in His Own Bed: A Melbourne Gangland Killing Blamed on a Friend Saddleworth Moor Gives Up a Victim of the Moors Murders A Doctor Fooled Twice: Martha Rendell and the Second Child to Die of Diphtheria Dark Stories True Crime Tours Blog