SinisterCrimes

On this day

1 November

  1. 1828

    Ann and James Gray find Docherty's body and report it; police later recover it from Knox's rooms.

    Burke and Hare Executed

    Two Irish labourers killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 and sold the bodies to an anatomy lecturer. Only one of them hanged.

  2. 1896

    Major Henry forges a document naming Dreyfus.

    Dreyfus Affair Disputed verdict

    A torn note from a wastebasket, a Jewish captain sent to Devil's Island, and the real spy acquitted in three minutes: the injustice that split France.

  3. 1905

    Rasputin is first received by Nicholas II and Alexandra.

    Rasputin Never caught

    Poisoned cakes, a man who would not die, a body under the ice: the famous story comes from one of Rasputin's killers. The autopsy tells a plainer one.