10 June

Queen Anne's Revenge runs aground at Topsail (Beaufort) Inlet, North Carolina.

Blackbeard Killed before trial

Edward Teach held Charles Town to ransom for a chest of medicine, took a royal pardon, went back to sea and died on a sloop's deck at Ocracoke in 1718.

Amelia Dyer is hanged at Newgate Prison.

Amelia Dyer Executed

For £10 'Mrs Harding' promised a mother's love to babies born outside marriage. In 1896 the Thames at Reading gave up what she had done with them.

A neighbor raises the alarm in the morning, and all eight are found dead in the house.

Villisca axe murders Unsolved

Eight people, six of them children, were killed in one house in a small Iowa town in June 1912. Two men faced the law. Neither was convicted.

Violet Sharpe, a maid at the Morrow home, takes her own life before further questioning; she is later cleared.

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.

A car crash near Wellington, Texas, leaves Bonnie badly burned.

Bonnie and Clyde Killed before trial

Two years, at least nine dead lawmen and a posse waiting in the Louisiana pines: the real Barrow gang, from Eastham prison farm to the ambush at Gibsland.