31 March

Madeleine Smith is arrested after her letters are found among his belongings.

Madeleine Smith Acquitted

A Glasgow architect's daughter, a secret lover, his bundle of letters and three purchases of arsenic. In 1857 the jury said: not proven.

Posing as Mrs Harding, Dyer collects Doris Marmon in Cheltenham and takes her to Mayo Road, Willesden.

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.

The new maid Maria Baumgartner arrives in the afternoon; all six people on the farm are killed that night.

Hinterkaifeck Unsolved

Six people were killed on a lonely Bavarian farm in 1922, and someone kept feeding the cattle for days afterwards. A century later no one has been charged.

He shoots his way out of the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul and is wounded in the leg.

John Dillinger Killed before trial

Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.