4 April

Harry Thaw marries Evelyn Nesbit in Pittsburgh.

Stanford White Acquitted

In 1906 Harry Thaw shot the architect Stanford White before a theater crowd at Madison Square Garden. Two trials later, a jury called Thaw insane.

Lorenz Schlittenbauer and two neighbours discover the bodies; Munich detectives arrive overnight.

Hinterkaifeck Unsolved

Six people were killed on a lonely Bavarian farm in 1922, and someone kept feeding the cattle for days afterwards. A century later no one has been charged.

Petiot is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

Marcel Petiot Executed

In occupied Paris a doctor sold a secret route to safety for 25,000 francs a head. In March 1944 smoke from his chimney showed where his clients had gone.