SinisterCrimes

On this day

2 April

  1. 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.

  2. 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.