SinisterCrimes

On this day

11 June

  1. 1907

    Vicars shows the jewels to a visitor; this is the last time they are known to have been in the safe.

    Irish Crown Jewels theft Unsolved

    Days before a royal visit in July 1907, the diamond regalia of the Order of St Patrick vanished from a safe in Dublin Castle. They have never been found.

  2. 1912

    A coroner's inquest opens.

    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.