30 April

At Stony Stratford, Gloucester takes custody of the young king and arrests his Woodville escort.

Princes in the Tower Unsolved

In 1483 a twelve-year-old king and his brother vanished inside the Tower of London and their uncle took the crown. What became of them is still debated.

Hauser's birth date as given in the letter he carried; nothing confirms it.

Kaspar Hauser Unsolved

A foundling who claimed a childhood in a dark cell, rumours of a stolen prince, and a stab wound in an Ansbach park in 1833. Murder or self-inflicted?

Storekeeper J. N. Bucher is killed in a robbery at Hillsboro, Texas, in which Clyde took part.

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.

The Bishop of Ghent receives the first ransom letter, signed D.U.A., demanding one million Belgian francs.

Ghent Altarpiece theft Unsolved

In April 1934 a panel of van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece was stolen and held to ransom. The man who seemed to know where it was died before he could say.