9 January

Edith Thompson is hanged at Holloway and Frederick Bywaters at Pentonville at the same hour.

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.

Robert Manley drops Short at the Biltmore Hotel; it is her last confirmed sighting.

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.