Dark Stories True Crime Tours https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html On This Day in True Crime History – 4 November 11-04 | 1993 Two More Victims Discovered: The Backpacker Murders in the Forest South-West of Sydney 11-04 | 1993 Two More Victims Discovered: The Backpacker Murders in the Forest South-West of Sydney “A Feeling of Relief”: Hanged in Melbourne for Drowning a Family Member Eight Stab Wounds, One Final Act of Duty: a Thursday Island Constable Dragged His Attacker to Arrest “Look, Jimmy”: The Chilling Instant Before a Fatal Tomahawk Attack Near Mount Morgan, Hanged in Brisbane. He Blamed His Mate for the Shot, But It Was His Own Gun That Fired: Triple Hanging in Sydney On This Day in True Crime History – 3 November The First Murder Convictions of the Melbourne Gangland War: Keith Faure and Evangelos Goussis Convicted A 350-Officer Manhunt Could Not Stop the Rostov Ripper Killing Again Twice in 24 Hours: the Granny Killer Claims Another Victim in Sydney Mercy Recommended, Mercy Denied: John Riches Hanged in Melbourne Over a Deadly Camp Quarrel Thomas Butlock: The Aspiring Thief Who Stole for Fine Clothes On This Day in True Crime History – 2 November “I Will Never Die”: Mona Fandey Hanged for the Ritual Murder of a Malaysian Politician The Granny Killer Bludgeons an Elderly Woman to Death in a Sydney Laneway The “Death Row Granny”: the First Woman Executed in America Since 1962 The “Death Row Granny”: the First Woman Executed in America Since 1962 The Quiz Show That Was Rigged All Along: Charles Van Doren Confesses to America The Spooks Scandal: Police Walked Off the Job and Melbourne Descended Into Looting Banned by Daylight: How Sydney Once Outlawed Ocean Swimming by Sun Flogged for Skinny-Dipping, He Led a Bushranger Uprising That Ended With Ten Hanged at Bathurst The French State Seizes the Wealth of the Catholic Church Ten Convicts Marched Out of Sydney to Found a Colony That Could Feed Itself On This Day in True Crime History – 1 November The Pizza Bomber Case: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong Convicted as the Mastermind of a Fatal Collar Bomb Plot The Backpacker Who Got Away: How One Survivor Unmasked Serial Killer Ivan Milat Jealousy Sealed the Fate of the another Victim in the Birnie Killings Near Fremantle The Hillside Strangler Killers Posed as Undercover Police to Snatch a Teenage Runaway on Halloween Night He Bombed His Mothers Suitcase and Killed 44 Strangers Aboard Flight 629 The Lawman Who Outlived the Wild West, Gunned Down by a Drunk Prohibition Agent 375 Lashes and Still Running: The Convict Hanged at Hobart After One Final Burglary The Black Beau of London, Hanged in SydneyAustralia Betrayed by the Same Informer Twice: Hugh McLarie Hanged in Sydney for Highway Robbery Betrayed Twice by the Same Informer: Thomas Collins Hanged in Sydney for a Parramatta Road Robbery Twenty Convicts and a Pregnant Woman Flee Parramatta, Convinced China Lay Just Over the River On This Day in True Crime History – 31 October Indira Gandhi Assassinated by Her Own Bodyguards in New Delhi The Hillside Strangler Who Sold Out His Own Cousin to Dodge the Death Penalty Ted Bundy Confessed to Her Killing, but Proof Took 51 Years The Man Who Killed Halloween: A Father Poisoned His Own Son for $100,000 in Insurance “Unprecedented in Our Annals of Crime”: A Sydney Butcher Committed for Trial Over a Dismembered Body They Dined on Stolen Ham While the Family Lay Bound: Thomas Sanders Hanged in Melbourne for a Farmhouse Attack “And Am Willing to Suffer”: the Chilling Calm After a Deloraine Hut Stabbing A Fabricated Choking Bullock Led to the Murder of a Sleeping Man: Hanged at Launceston The Last Victim of Burke and Hare: a Fatal Night of Drinking in Edinburgh On This Day in True Crime History – 30 October He Escaped the Gallows Once: Patrick Mahon Finally Hanged at Oatlands Dark Stories True Crime Tours Blog