SinisterCrimes

On this day

20 October

  1. 1866

    Her second husband, George Ward, dies in Sunderland after a long illness.

    Mary Ann Cotton Executed

    A County Durham nurse buried husbands, children and a lover to 'gastric fever'. A seven-year-old stepson's death finally brought arsenic to light.

  2. 1934

    Richetti is captured after a shootout with police near Wellsville, Ohio; Floyd escapes.

    Kansas City Massacre Disputed verdict

    Thirty seconds outside Union Station in June 1933 left four lawmen and their prisoner dead. The FBI blamed Pretty Boy Floyd. Historians are still arguing.