Did Jeannie Donald murder Helen Priestly back in 1934? Was the forensic evidence available at the time sufficient to convict Jeannie of the crime? Had it been purely an accident?

On 21 April 1934, 8 year old Helen Priestly was sent from her home in Urquhart Street, Aberdeen, to the corner shop by her mother to buy a loaf of bread. It was one of the things that most children throughout the United Kingdom at that time were asked to do and the children seldom came to harm but on this particular occasion a trip to the corner shop proved fatal for Helen.

An inmates' view of conditions on death row in Texas. He captures the horrible isolation and nightmarish conditions graphically while not feeling sorry for himself. He discusses the many inmates who go crazy with being friendless and having no escape provided to them.

I think most people, certainly in the UK and US, are familiar with the sorry tale of Dr Crippen but would he have been tracked down if it hadn’t been for the newly invented Marconi wireless radio telegraph machine?