SinisterCrimes

On this day

20 January

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.