Kate Barker was born in Arizona Clark in Ash Grove, Missouri 0n the 8th October 1873 and her family called her ‘Arrie’. In 1892 she married George Barker, in Lawrence County, Missouri. The couple had four sons - Herman (1893-1927), Lloyd (1897- 1949), Arthur (1899 -1939) and Fred (1901-1935).
Vito Genovese was born on November 27th in Risigliano near Naples, in Italy. When Genovese was 15 his family emmigrated to New York City in 1913 and settled in Little Italy, Manhattan. Genovese soon began hanging out with local gangs and running errands for mob members.
Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was born in Glacow on 27th May 1850 but raised outside Quebec City, Canada, after his family moved there in 1854.
Adelaide was born in France on December 19th, 1855. Her mother was an Englishwoman named Clara Chamberlain. Clara was married to a French mathematics teacher named Adolphe Collet de la Tremoille, but he was apparently not Adelaide’s biological father.
There have been 23 executions carried out at Leicester Prison, between the years 1829 and 1953. The youngest person executed was John Swift, aged 19 in 1877, and the oldest was Thomas Bloxham, aged 62, in 1887.
Born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, on 6th August 1824 William Palmer was the sixth of eight children to Sarah and Joseph Palmer. His father worked as a sawyer, and died when William was 12 years old, leaving Sarah with a legacy of some £70,000.
Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, born September 11th 1862 in Coldwater, Michigan, was a doctor - but not the average medical physician. Crippen studied first at the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical School and graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1884.
Born in 1905 in the town of Lawrence Massachusetts, Thelma Todd was a popular actress of the late 1920s and 1930s. As a child she was so academically inclined, that she decided to become a school teacher and after high school went on to college.