Talk:List of unsolved murders (before 1900)

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Section sizes

Section size for List of unsolved murders (before 1900) (4 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	222	222
Before 1800	11,082	11,082
1800s	25,896	25,896
References	228	228
Total	37,428	37,428

Well, duh!

This is a list of unsolved murders (it's right there in the name), it is therefor rather silly (putting it nicely) how many of these listings say "her murderer was never caught", "it remains unsolved to this day", and such. I plan on rewriting this in the next day or so, but if anybody else wants to give it a crack before I can get to it, go for it. --Khajidha (talk) 12:30, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Bravo's murder remains unsolved. Could be added to this list. Anlegov (talk) 10:41, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Syzygy (talk) 11:22, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

All pre-19th century murders

The entire section "Before the 19th century" should be drastically trimmed. There are far too many archaeological and anthropological instances where not only the prospect of them ever being "solved" is moot but even the use of the term "murder" potentially doubtful. All of the bog bodies and similar are not helpful. The only remaining ones in this section should be the ones that there is some historical documentation for, e.g., Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, or Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:25, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll kick all the bog bodies with just a generic mention to this type of killings. --Syzygy (talk) 11:22, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Someone saw a need to duplicate the better part of the List of bog bodies here. I removed most of them and restored just a short description of what bog bodies are, plus three example, which should be enough. --Syzygy (talk) 09:11, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]