31 August

Mary Ann Nichols is found dead in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, at about 3:40 a.m.

Jack the Ripper Unsolved

Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified.

Henry, having confessed to forgery the day before, kills himself in custody.

Dreyfus Affair Disputed verdict

A torn note from a wastebasket, a Jewish captain sent to Devil's Island, and the real spy acquitted in three minutes: the injustice that split France.

Rev. George Kelly signs a confession to the murders, which he soon recants.

Villisca axe murders Unsolved

Eight people, six of them children, were killed in one house in a small Iowa town in June 1912. Two men faced the law. Neither was convicted.