Event Types: Crime

From her first arrest in Australia on 18 June 1921, successful madam Tilly Devine had 79 convictions on prostitution-related charges, such as offensive behaviour and indecent language.

Ching Shih and her fleet surrendered to the Portuguese Navy, ending her reign as the most successful pirate in history. Upon being pardoned for her life as a pirate, Ching […]

Angela Yvonne Davis, a black militant, former philosophy professor at the University of California and communist, is acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder and kidnapping by a jury in San […]

The amateur bandit Pearl Hart and her boyfriend hold up an Arizona stagecoach.

10-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, by Lenape Indians; she becomes an icon of the French and Indian War.

During a raid, Comanche, Kiowa and Caddo Native Americans in Texas kidnap Cynthia Ann Parker (who was around 9 or 10 years old) and kill her family. Adopted into the […]

The body of Leon Besnard is exhumed in Loudun, France, by authorities searching for evidence of poison. For years, local residents had suspected his wife Marie, as they watched nearly […]

Stella Nickell is convicted on two counts of murder by a Seattle, Washington, jury. She was the first person to be found guilty of violating the Federal Anti-Tampering Act after […]

Three women are rescued from a Cleveland, Ohio, house where they had been imprisoned for many years by their abductor, 52-year-old Ariel Castro, an unemployed bus driver.The women—Michelle Knight, Amada […]

The Federal Industrial Institution for Women, the United States’ first women’s federal prison, opens in Alderson, West Virginia. All women serving federal sentences of more than a year were to […]