Lancashire has been linked to some of Britain's most shocking murder cases, from Buck Ruxton's gruesome crimes in Lancaster to the Pottery Cottage killings by Preston-born Billy Hughes.
Other notorious names have connections to the historic county of Lancashire through childhood homes, their victims or its historic boundaries.
These archive photographs reveal the faces and stories behind crimes that made national headlines.
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A prison official is flanked by two police officers as he posts Buck Ruxton's death notice after his execution at Strangeways Prison on May 12, 1936. Indian-born physician, Ruxton was convicted and executed for the murders of Isabella Ruxton, his common-law wife, and the family housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, at his home in Lancaster | Getty Images
6. Show trial
1 March 1936: A group of women have breakfast on the pavement outside the courts in Manchester before the start of the trial of Dr Buck Ruxton | Getty Images
7. Fingerprint file
Former guardsman Peter Griffiths who was hanged at Walton prison, Liverpoool, for abducting, assaulting and murdering three year old June Devaney in 1948. The forensic evidence against Griffiths was overwhelming after 47,000 men in Blackburn had their fingerprints taken | Getty Images
8. Wave from a killer
Louisa Merrifield, the Blackpool poisoner, with her husband Alfred. She was one of the last women in England to be hanged for murder | Contributed