On this day
20 January
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1931
Stella Crater finds envelopes of money, securities and a note from her husband in a dresser drawer.
Judge Crater Unsolved
On 6 August 1930 a New York judge left a Midtown chophouse and was never seen again. The 'missingest man in America' and the Tammany scandal around him.
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1931
Wallace searches in vain for Menlove Gardens East; returning home at about 8.45 pm, he finds Julia dead.
William Herbert Wallace Disputed verdict
A phone message sent a Liverpool insurance man to an address that did not exist. He came home to find his wife dead, and was sentenced to hang.
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2013
Kelly's identified remains are buried at Greta Cemetery.
Ned Kelly Executed
Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.