15 January

Marie-Fortunée Capelle is born in Paris.

Marie Lafarge Convicted

A Parisian bride, a crumbling former monastery in Corrèze, a husband dead of 'cholera', and the Marsh test that made toxicology a courtroom science.

All three are convicted; Burgess and Tester receive fourteen years' transportation and Pierce two years' hard labour.

Great Gold Robbery of 1855 Convicted

In May 1855 four men emptied the bullion safes on the London-to-Folkestone night train and refilled them with lead shot. Nobody noticed until Paris.

Edith Graydon marries Percy Thompson at St Barnabas, Manor Park.

Thompson and Bywaters Executed

A young ship's steward stabbed his lover's husband on an Ilford street in 1922. Her letters, not her actions, took her to the gallows beside him.

Patrolman William O'Malley is killed during a bank robbery in East Chicago, Indiana.

John Dillinger Killed before trial

Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.

Her body is found in a vacant lot on South Norton Avenue in Leimert Park.

Black Dahlia Unsolved

Elizabeth Short, 22, was murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947. Hundreds confessed, dozens were suspected, and no one was ever charged.