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.
25. The Victorian poisoning trial that shocked Britain
Florence Maybrick, the American-born woman convicted of poisoning her husband James with arsenic in Liverpool in 1889. Her death sentence was commuted amid widespread doubts about her guilt, and she was released from prison in 1904 after serving 15 years | Getty Images
26. The Victorian poisoner who murdered her own family
Mary Ann Britland, who poisoned her daughter, husband and neighbour in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1886. She became the first woman to be hanged at Manchester's Strangeways Prison, where she was executed on August 9 that year | AI-enhanced archive image
27. Cheated justice
Stephen Akinmurele, the suspected serial killer linked to the deaths of elderly people in Blackpool and the Isle of Man during the 1990s. He died in his prison cell in August 1999, aged 21, before he could stand trial for murder | PA
28. 3 Orry Place, Ballasolla, Isle of Man where Stephen Akinmurele lived before moving to Blackpool
A seemingly ordinary suburban home where Stephen Akinmurele lived before moving to Blackpool | Dawn Castle Photo: Dawn Castle