SinisterCrimes

On this day

26 June

  1. 1880

    Joe Byrne shoots police informer Aaron Sherritt in the Woolshed Valley.

    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.

  2. 1915

    Thérèse Laborde-Line disappears at Vernouillet.

    Henri Désiré Landru Executed

    A fugitive swindler answered wartime France's lonely-hearts columns. Eleven people who went with him to rented villas outside Paris were never seen again.