historical true crime

New Orleans in 1918 was already a city of noise, heat, tension, and rumour. It had music in its streets,…

James Abram Garfield was born on 19 November 1831 in Orange Township, Ohio, into circumstances that gave little hint he…

When Esther Soper was murdered on 1 January 1976, she was living alone at 9 Trematon Terrace, Mutley, Plymouth. She…

The Moors Murders emerged from a Britain that was still reshaping itself after the Second World War. By the late…

In the early 1960s, the city of Boston entered a period of fear unlike anything it had experienced in peacetime.…

Aldo Moro was born on 23 September 1916 in Maglie, in Italy’s southern region of Apulia. Trained as a jurist,…

Mary Jane Kelly remains the most elusive figure among the victims of the Whitechapel murders, not because her death is…

In the early hours of 25 March 1887, four men walking to work made a discovery that would unsettle the…

Richard Ramirez was born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez on 29 February 1960 in El Paso, Texas, the youngest of five…

On Saturday, 5 July 1919, Annie Bella Wright, aged 21, set out on her bicycle from Stoughton, Leicestershire, in the…