One file for each year of the 1930s: the most documented and most cited case on record for that year.
Credit: Harris & Ewing, photographerPublic domainSourceLouisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
On September 8, 1935, U.S. Senator and former Louisiana Governor Huey Long was shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge and died 31 hours later. Carl Weiss, son-in-law of a judge Long had just moved to remove from office, was killed at the scene by Long's bodyguards; the exact circumstances of Long's fatal wound remain disputed.
Credit: Period press photo via Wikipedia (Murder of Phyllis Reiger)Public domainSourceRockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Phyllis Reiger, 22, was strangled by her former boyfriend, prison warder Jack McQuade, in his car in Rockhampton, Queensland in the early hours of 16 January 1935, two days after McQuade married another woman.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons infobox portraitPublic domainSourceSanta Beatriz Hippodrome (now Campo de Marte), Santa Beatriz, Lima, Peru
On April 30, 1933, Peruvian President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was fatally shot from behind while riding in his open-topped car at the Santa Beatriz Hippodrome in Lima. The gunman, APRA militant Abelardo Mendoza Leyva, was killed at the scene by presidential guards; a Republican Guard member was also killed in the attack.
Credit: Works Progress Administration posterPublic domainSourceMacon County, Alabama
Between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied untreated syphilis in nearly 400 Black men in Macon County, Alabama, without informing them of their diagnosis or providing treatment, and more than 100 died as a result.
Credit: The Julia Wallace Murder Foundation (williamherbertwallace.com)Editorial useSource29 Wolverton Street, Anfield, Liverpool
Julia Wallace was beaten to death in her Liverpool home in January 1931 after her husband William was lured away by a hoax phone call. He was convicted but the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the verdict months later, and the killing remains officially unsolved.
2 Church Road, Ramsgate, Kent
Margery Wren, a 79-year-old former maid and Ramsgate sweetshop owner, was fatally beaten with fire tongs at her shop in September 1930. She survived five days but refused to name her attacker before dying, and despite a police investigation involving Scotland Yard, the case was never solved.
