11 August

Corder is hanged at Bury St Edmunds after confessing to the shooting.

Maria Marten and William Corder Executed

A Suffolk molecatcher's daughter left home in men's clothes to elope in 1827. Eleven months later her father dug her up from the floor of the Red Barn.

After testifying at a closed inquest, Lizzie is arrested and charged.

Lizzie Borden Acquitted

Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in their Fall River home in 1892. A jury took barely an hour to acquit his daughter Lizzie. No one else was charged.

The Post exposes Ponzi's Montreal forgery conviction, and the state seizes Hanover Trust.

Charles Ponzi Convicted

Boston, 1920: an Italian immigrant promised 50% in 45 days on postage coupons. Eight months later his name was a byword for fraud.

Maria Hahn is killed after a day out in the Neandertal.

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.

Petiot acquires the townhouse at 21 rue Le Sueur and has the courtyard walls raised.

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.