2 January

The first trial of the servants opens; a second sitting follows on 7 January.

Elizabeth Báthory Disputed verdict

Hundreds of witnesses accused a Hungarian countess of killing young women. She was walled up without trial in 1610. Was it justice or a political purge?

Rasputin is buried at Tsarskoye Selo; Dmitri Pavlovich is sent to the Persian front and Yusupov to his estate.

Rasputin Never caught

Poisoned cakes, a man who would not die, a body under the ice: the famous story comes from one of Rasputin's killers. The autopsy tells a plainer one.

The trial opens at the Hunterdon County Courthouse in Flemington.

Lindbergh baby kidnapping Executed

A ladder, a misspelled note and $50,000 in gold certificates: how the Lindbergh baby case ended in the electric chair, and why doubts still linger.

Joachim Guschinow leaves for his promised passage to Argentina and disappears.

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.