On this day
2 April
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1896
Dyer travels back to Reading with a weighted carpet bag.
Amelia Dyer Executed
For £10 'Mrs Harding' promised a mother's love to babies born outside marriage. In 1896 the Thames at Reading gave up what she had done with them.
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1932
Condon pays $50,000 to 'Cemetery John' at St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx.
Lindbergh baby kidnapping Executed
A ladder, a misspelled note and $50,000 in gold certificates: how the Lindbergh baby case ended in the electric chair, and why doubts still linger.