Crime and punishment

A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from 'Le Petit Parisien', 1891.

Historical cold cases Murder in the year of the Ripper

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Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

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Conspiracy Did Anastasia survive the massacre of the Romanovs?

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Illustration of Major Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’

The brutal murder of Emmett Till was just one of thousands of racially motivated lynchings in the American South, but it proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights revolution. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

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The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the

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Mrs Louisa Lee, a widow who went missing from Margate, Kent in 1939.
She left a boarding-house in the Cliftonville area of Margate to go to London but was never seen again.

Historical cold cases The mystery of the vanishing widow

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

Historical cold cases with Nell Darby The mystery of Miss Lamond

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An engraving of a prison hulk at Deptford, from a c1826 painting. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Protesters gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the 2003 Hutton inquiry into claims, broadcast on the BBC, that the case for war in Iraq had been “sexed up”.

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Armstrong's wife Katherine died in February 1921 after months of ill-health. Police found high levels of arsenic after her body was exhumed and he was charged for his wife's murder Major and Mrs. Herbert Armstrong. January 1922 (Photo by WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

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