26 May

A teenage boy carrying two letters is found in the streets of Nuremberg.

Kaspar Hauser Unsolved

A foundling who claimed a childhood in a dark cell, rumours of a stolen prince, and a stab wound in an Ansbach park in 1833. Murder or self-inflicted?

John Wesley Hardin is born near Bonham, Texas.

John Wesley Hardin Convicted

A preacher's son who killed a deputy on his 21st birthday served sixteen years, came out a lawyer, and was shot from behind in an El Paso saloon in 1895.

On his 21st birthday he kills Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb at Comanche, Texas.

John Wesley Hardin Convicted

A preacher's son who killed a deputy on his 21st birthday served sixteen years, came out a lawyer, and was shot from behind in an El Paso saloon in 1895.

Peter Kürten is born in Mülheim am Rhein, near Cologne.

Peter Kürten Executed

For fifteen months Düsseldorf hunted a killer it could not see. The break came from a survivor's letter, misaddressed and opened at the post office.