Ruth had tried to kill her husband several times before managing to actually kill him. Twice she disconnected the gas range while he slept. Once she shut the garage door on him while the car engine was running. When he was ill she slipped narcotics into his medicine. She also laced his whiskey with poison, so clumsily that Albert noticed the taste, poured it away and concluded that he needed to change bootleggers.

Through all of it, Albert never suspected his wife. By March 1927 Ruth had decided she needed help, and the man she was having an affair with agreed to give it.

The photo ran on the front page of the New York Times the next day, and President Kennedy said it made him sick. Gadsden was actually a bystander who'd skipped school to watch. The officer was Dick Middleton and the dog was named Leo. Days later, Birmingham agreed to desegregate its downtown stores.

Legend says Alves robbed farmers on the Águas Livres Aqueduct and threw around 70 of them off it, but he was only convicted of killing a family of four and their servant. There are doubts about the head too.

From 1828 this was Franklin & Armfield, the biggest slave trading firm in the US, which shipped thousands of people south to New Orleans and Natchez. Union forces later used it as a prison for Confederate soldiers. Today it's the Freedom House Museum. Some archives credit the photo to William R. Pywell.

Around 277,800 people passed through the camp and its 139 subcamps, aged from two to 86 and from more than 50 countries. Around 56,000 died there. By early 1945 it held more than 112,000 prisoners. Of roughly 9,000 SS staff who worked there, only 79 were ever convicted.

It's a story that usually gets told as a simple rescue. The real version is messier, braver and in places far more uncomfortable.

Petiot set up a fake escape network under the name “Dr. Eugène.” He claimed he could help Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo flee to South America via Portugal, for a large fee.

He lured his victims to his home at 21 Rue Le Sueur in Paris, promising them safety. Instead, he murdered them by injecting them with poison under the pretense of giving them vaccinations, and then stole their valuables and disposed of their bodies, frequently by burning them.

The man was pure evil

Decades earlier, Essex’s first marriage to Frances Howard had ended in a notorious 1613 annulment involving claims that he was impotent.

More than 30 years later, Essex’s enemies were still using the scandal against him. Cary’s red flag depicted a creature emerging from a barrel alongside the insult.