29 May

Anselm von Feuerbach dies.

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?

Detectives trace the glasses to Nathan Leopold and bring him and Loeb in for questioning.

Leopold and Loeb Convicted

Two rich Chicago students killed Bobby Franks, 14, in 1924 to prove they could commit a perfect crime. A pair of glasses gave them away.

Van Meegeren is arrested on suspicion of collaboration and selling Dutch cultural property to the enemy.

Han van Meegeren Convicted

Arrested in 1945 for selling a Vermeer to Göring, a Dutch painter saved himself by proving he had painted it. Then he had to prove he had faked the rest.