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.
21. The serial killer who claimed 11 lives
Charles Ng, who was sentenced to death in California in 1999 for murdering 11 people, including two babies, alongside accomplice Leonard Lake. The pair carried out their crimes at a remote property in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the 1980s | Other 3rd Party
22. Ng's former home
The former home of Charles Ng in New Longton, where the future serial killer stayed with relatives during his teenage years. Decades later, he would be convicted of a series of horrific murders in California, crimes which shocked America and attracted worldwide attention
23. Chilling face of murder
Myra Hindley, who alongside Ian Brady murdered five children and teenagers between 1963 and 1965. The notorious Moors Murders shocked Britain, with several victims buried on Saddleworth Moor. Hindley was jailed for life in 1966 and died in prison in 2002, aged 60 | Getty Images
24. The trial of Mrs Maybrick at Liverpool, 1889. Florence Maybrick (1862-1941) was an American citizen accused of poisoning her British husband, James Maybrick, a Liverpool cotton merchant. She was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death, but the penalty was commuted to life imprisonment. She spent fourteen years in prison in England, though there was doubt about her guilt. A print from the Illustrated London News. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
The trial of Mrs Maybrick at Liverpool, 1889. Florence Maybrick (1862-1941) was an American citizen accused of poisoning her British husband, James Maybrick, a Liverpool cotton merchant. She was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death, but the penalty was commuted to life imprisonment. She spent 14 years in prison in England, though there was doubt about her guilt. A print from the Illustrated London News | Print Collector/Getty Images