SinisterCrimes

On this day

8 September

  1. 1881

    A Bisbee stage is held up, leading to the arrest of Cowboy associates Frank Stilwell and Pete Spence.

    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. 1888

    Annie Chapman is found in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.

    Jack the Ripper Unsolved

    Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified.