One file for each year of the 1920s: the most documented and most cited case on record for that year.
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
In 1928, 22-year-old Philippe Halsman was accused of killing his father, Morduch Halsman, a Latvian Jewish dentist, during a hike in Austria's Zillertal valley. His first conviction, widely criticized as a product of regional antisemitism, was overturned by Austria's Supreme Court; a second trial convicted him of manslaughter, and he was pardoned by the Austrian president in 1930.
Credit: Daily Mirror originallyPublic domainSource86 Rochester Row, City of Westminster, London
In May 1927, the dismembered body of Minnie Alice Bonati was found in a trunk left at Charing Cross railway station's left-luggage office; estate agent John Robinson was convicted of her murder and hanged.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Hall–Mills murder case), c.1920Public domainSourceFranklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
Episcopal priest Edward Wheeler Hall and choir member Eleanor Mills, with whom he was having an affair, were found shot to death in a New Jersey field in September 1922. Hall's wife and her two brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted; the case remains legally unsolved.
Credit: PhilipC at FlickrCC BY 2.0SourceRuby, Arizona
Between 1920 and 1922, six people were killed in a series of robberies and manhunts centered on the Ruby Mercantile store near the border town of Ruby, Arizona, including two store owners, the wife of a second store owner, and two lawmen killed during a prisoner escape.
