31 December

Williams's body is paraded through Wapping and buried at a crossroads near St George's turnpike.

Ratcliff Highway murders Disputed verdict

Seven people killed in two East London households twelve days apart in 1811. The suspect hanged himself before trial, and doubts have outlived him.

The body of Montague John Druitt, later named as a suspect, is recovered from the Thames at Chiswick.

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.

Armstrong is arrested at his Hay office for the attempted murder of Martin.

Herbert Rowse Armstrong Executed

'Excuse fingers': a Hay-on-Wye solicitor handed his rival a buttered scone, and the arsenic trail led back to his wife's grave.