SinisterCrimes

On this day

22 April

  1. 1897

    Cassidy and Elzy Lay take the Pleasant Valley Coal Company payroll at Castle Gate, Utah.

    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.

  2. 1931

    Kürten is convicted of nine murders and seven attempted murders and sentenced to death.

    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.

  3. 1931

    His trial opens at the Liverpool Assizes in St George's Hall.

    William Herbert Wallace Disputed verdict

    A phone message sent a Liverpool insurance man to an address that did not exist. He came home to find his wife dead, and was sentenced to hang.

  4. 1934

    Federal agents raid Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin; the gang escapes, a civilian is killed by agents and Nelson kills agent W. Carter Baum.

    John Dillinger Killed before trial

    Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.