True crime diary - James Bland

4th January 1964: the Boston Strangler's last victim found naked, trussed, raped and strangled with a New Year greetings card against her right foot.

25th April 1935: a shark in an Australian aquarium brought up a human arm- and started a murder hunt.

11th May 1916: a Hungarian blacksmith bought a house at an auction. He found the bodies of seven women in the adjoining workshop.

23rd November 1910: Dr Crippen hanged at Pentonville Prison for the murder of his second wife. He had poisoned her, and concealed her dismembered remains beneath the cellar floor of their home.

29th Decemeber 1969: Muriel McKay abducted from her London home. The body was never found, but two Trinidadian brothers, Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, were convicted of her murder- it is believed that she was fed to pigs on Arthur Hosein's farm.