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.
17. Brides in the Bath killer
Serial killer George Joseph Smith, who murdered three of his wives by drowning them in baths between 1912 and 1914. The bigamist repeatedly married women for their money before killing them. He was hanged at Maidstone Prison in August 1915 | Contributed
18. Killer who married for money
George Joseph Smith used a succession of false names to deceive women into marriage. His crimes began to unravel when a Blackpool boarding-house owner noticed striking similarities between two suspicious deaths and alerted Scotland Yard in 1915 | Contributed
19. The bride who never came home
Alice Burnham, a 25-year-old nurse who married George Joseph Smith in November 1913. Just weeks later, she was found drowned in a bath at a boarding house on Regent Road, Blackpool. Her death was initially ruled accidental, but later investigations exposed her husband's murderous scheme | Other 3rd Party
20. Killer's unlikely Preston connection
Charles Ng with his sister Betty in New Longton. Ng spent part of his teenage years living in the village after arriving from Hong Kong in the 1970s. He attended Bentham Grammar School before eventually moving to America, where he became one of the country's most notorious serial killers