From Canada was convicted of murdering a young englishman called Frederick Cornwallis Benwell after tricking him into paying £500 for a half partnership in a farm. Benwells frozen body was discovered by two farmers who were out walking on the 21 February 1890. It had two bullets lodged in the brain. He was found guilty and was hanged on the 14 November 1890 at Princeton Ontario prison in Canada.

Robert Hansen

Was from Alaska and turned out to be the most active serial killer in Alaskan history. From 1973 to 1983, this expert pilot and avid hunter would fly prostitutes and erotic dancers to his remote cabin hideaway in the Alaskan wilderness where he would then rape and murder them. After sexually abusing his helpless victims for a couple of days he would set them free in the freezing woods and then hunt them down with his high-powered hunting rifle aas if they were deer. In 1984 Robert Hansen was handed a sentence of 461 years plus life which he is now serving in the Lewisburg Federal Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania.

William Alfred Bayly

Was arrested and charged with murder in New Zealand. On searching Baylys farm they found a lot of evidence that a body had been burnt in an oil drum and then the remains scattered over the orchard and fields. Human hair and fragments of bone plus blood and denture material helped to accuse him. The police then found a Watch and lighter belonging to the dead man. Bayly was found guilty and hanged in Auckland prison at 8 am on 20 July 1934.

Jacobus Hendrik Coetzee was from South Africa and in May 1935 Jacobus Hendrik Coetzee was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for the murder of Gertrina Opperman. He had murdered his mistress Gertrina Opperman because she was pregnant and he was worried she was going to ruin his career and his marriage.

Kray Twins have perhaps become one of the most famous english gangsters in English history. On 8th May 1968, Reggie and Ronnie had spent the night drinking in the Old Horn pub in Bethnal Green and the Astor Club, Berkeley Square. They returned to their mother's new council flat in Shoreditch some time after 4am. At dawn the police struck. The raided Violet's flat and found Ronnie in bed with a fair-haired boy while Reggie was sleeping with a girl from Walthamstow. Once the pair were safely locked up, people were happy to talk to the police. The barmaid from the Blind Beggar remembered details about Cornell's murder that she had previously forgotten and several criminals turned Queen's evidence. The twins were charged with the murders of Cornell and McVitie. The trial opened at the Old Bailey in January 1969. It ended on 8th March with both brothers being found guilty. Mr Justice Melford Stevenson sentenced them both to life imprisonment with a recommendation that they should serve at least thirty years. At a subsequent trial they were found not guilty of the murder of Frank Mitchell.

Ernest Brown

Bloody Ma Barker

Bonnie & Clyde

Charles Becker

Were another American partnership where the couple went around killing for the fun of it. They were both caught and were tried and both found guilty, Charles Starkweather was sentenced to death and Caril Ann Fugate recieved life imprisonment. On the 25 June 1959 Charles was electrocuted at Nebraskas State Penetentiary. Caril was released on parole in 1977. The movie Badlands with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek was based on their exploits.