13 April

Robert LeRoy Parker is born in Beaver, Utah Territory.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed before trial

From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908.

Convicted at Mesilla of Brady's murder, he is sentenced to hang on 13 May.

Billy the Kid Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom.

The jury finds him guilty and he is sentenced to death.

Herbert Rowse Armstrong Executed

'Excuse fingers': a Hay-on-Wye solicitor handed his rival a buttered scone, and the arsenic trail led back to his wife's grave.

His trial opens before the Düsseldorf jury court.

Peter Kürten Executed

For fifteen months Düsseldorf hunted a killer it could not see. The break came from a survivor's letter, misaddressed and opened at the post office.

Two officers are killed in a shootout at the gang's Joplin apartment; the abandoned photographs make the couple famous.

Bonnie and Clyde Killed before trial

Two years, at least nine dead lawmen and a posse waiting in the Louisiana pines: the real Barrow gang, from Eastham prison farm to the ambush at Gibsland.