9th Oct 1959: Through a Chapel Ventilator: the Sydney Jailbreak That Triggered Australia's Biggest Manhunt

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/october-09

Image: Long Bay Gaol Entrance (circa 1900)

#AustralianTrueCrime #PrisonEscape

7th Oct 1854: The Suspicious Acquittal That Set a Ballarat Pub Ablaze and Lit the Fuse for the Eureka Stockade

Full dark history:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/october-07

Image: Swearing allegiance to the Southern Cross flag.

#EurekaStockade #AustralianTrueCrime

4th Oct 1866: He Was Fed Breakfast, Then Declared Himself a Bushranger and Shot His Host

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/october-04

#BushrangerHistory #AustralianTrueCrime

27th Sep 1803: Bribery Couldn’t Save Them: Two Men Hanged at Castle Hill for a Hawkesbury Robbery

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-27

#ColonialExecution #AustralianTrueCrime

26th Sep 1803: The Man They Could Not Hang: Joseph Samuel Survives Three Executions at Sydney

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-26

#AustralianTrueCrime #ColonialExecution

23rd Sep 1937: Convicted of Kidnapping: Two Years Before Becoming the Last Prisoner Executed in NSW

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-23

#AustralianTrueCrime #ColonialExecution

22nd Sep 1913: The Last Man Hanged in Queensland Walks to the Brisbane Gallows

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-22

#ColonialExecution #AustralianTrueCrime

21st Sep 1852: The Last Public Hanging in NSW: Francis Thomas Green Executed at Darlinghurst Gaol

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-21

#ColonialExecution #AustralianTrueCrime

14th Sep 1828: The Tunnel Under Sydney: Australia's First Great Bank Robbery

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-14

#AustralianTrueCrime #ColonialCrime

8th Sep 2025: Mushroom Murderer Erin Patterson Sentenced to Life, Could Walk Free at 82

Full dark history at the link:
https://darkstories.com.au/on-this-day-in-true-crime-history/september-08

#MushroomTrial #AustralianTrueCrime