8 May

She marries Ferenc Nádasdy at Varannó.

Elizabeth Báthory Disputed verdict

Hundreds of witnesses accused a Hungarian countess of killing young women. She was walled up without trial in 1610. Was it justice or a political purge?

Marie Bosse is burned at the stake.

Affair of the Poisons Executed

Fortune tellers selling 'inheritance powders' to the Paris elite, a secret court lit by torches, and testimony that reached the king's own mistress.

Kidd's trial for murder and piracy opens at the Old Bailey.

Captain Kidd Executed

Sent by powerful backers to hunt pirates, William Kidd came home accused of being one, and was hanged twice at Execution Dock in 1701.

The nursemaid Alice Yapp intercepts Florence's letter to Brierley and gives it to the family.

Florence Maybrick Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks.

The bodies of Capone gunmen John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, both arrested after the massacre, are found with that of Joseph Giunta.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Unsolved

Seven men lined against a garage wall in Chicago, 1929. Gunmen dressed as police. Capone blamed by everyone, charged with nothing. Nobody was ever tried.