Manhunt

On March 4, 1952, three men robbed the Bank of Montreal in Toronto. A caretaker mistakenly turned off the alarm so clerks upstairs could not signal police.

On July 13, 1910, at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, a suburb of London, tenacious Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter C. Dew and a team of investigators uncovered what proved to be filleted human remains without bones, limbs or heads.

In 1945, Allied forces occupied Germany after five years of war, and German war criminals including Adolf Eichmann went into hiding. Eichmann visited his family in Austria and gave poison to his wife in case the Russians captured them.

On August 28, 1973, high temperatures shut down elevators in Manhattan's Diplomat Hotel. Two drug buyers walked up ten floors for cocaine that was only 17% pure.

In 1931, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Alfred "Buns" King cautiously knocked at a log cabin situated eight miles up Canada's Rat River. King was shot by the man inside, a trapper whose name may have been Albert Johnson.

On October 23, 1998, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Bernard Slepian returned home from a visit to his synagogue and was making soup in the kitchen when he was killed by a bullet from a high-powered assault rifle.

On the morning of October 5, 1970, two armed men forced their way into 1270 Redpath Crescent in Montreal. The men handcuffed the British High Commissioner of Canada, warned his wife and maid not to call the police and hustled into a taxi.

The water off Venice Beach, California was a cool 52°F on May 18, 1926 when the most famous woman in the world went for a swim.

On September 10, 1904, the Canadian Pacific Railway's Transcontinental Express left Mission Junction, British Columbia on the last leg of its journey from Toronto to Vancouver.

By 3pm on July 28, 1996, Skipper John Copik and his son Craig had spent ten hours fishing off the coast of Teignmouth, in Southwest England.