SinisterCrimes

On this day

7 November

  1. 1881

    Spicer revokes bail; Wyatt Earp and Holliday spend sixteen days in jail.

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

    About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

  2. 1908

    Both men are found dead in the house in the morning.

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Killed before trial

    From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908.

  3. 1921

    The trial opens before the assize court in Versailles.

    Henri Désiré Landru Executed

    A fugitive swindler answered wartime France's lonely-hearts columns. Eleven people who went with him to rented villas outside Paris were never seen again.

  4. 1929

    Five-year-old Gertrud Albermann is killed in Flingern.

    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.