Mary Pearcey and the Sick Little House
A woman, a visitor, a dead child and a trial that made polite London feel proper uneasy.Read More 
John D. Lee and the Mountain Meadows Mess
A wagon train from Arkansas was slaughtered in Utah in 1857, and one man later took the fall while the rest looked a bit shifty.Read More 
Greenacre's Trunk Was A Proper Mess
A bloke, a trunk, and a plan that went wildly daft - the papers loved every bit of it.Read More 
When Baltimore Lost Its Temper Over The Trains
A strike spread like bad gossip, a city filled with smoke, and men who usually mind their own business decided to behave like absolute scenes.Read More 
Mollie Maguires and the Coalfield Shadows
An undercover Pinkerton, a violent secret society of miners, and a valley that could not stop talking about who was guilty.Read More 
Gatton: Three Bodies, A Paddock And A Right Muddle
They found three dead people in a Queensland paddock in 1898 and the whole place acted like it had never seen trouble before.Read More 
Queensberry Left A Card And It All Went Pete Tong
He scribbles on a card, and a perfectly ordinary life is ripped sideways - proper odd, innit.Read More 
Frances Coles and That Night in Swallow Gardens
A small lane, a sloppy cutting, and a police team that made everyone ask 'give over' out loud.Read More 
James Lyons and the Silenced Pocket
A bloke who thought a quiet choke was a clever trick, and then the whole street decided to make him famous in the worst way.Read More 
Sarah Dazley and the Tea That Lied
A countrywoman who slipped arsenic into kettles and kitchens, and a village that pretended to be baffled.Read More 