On a moonlit January night in 1870, 16-year-old Elfreda Pike began a walk home from Harbour Grace—unaware it would be her last.

Nearly 200 years ago, two young men robbed a bank in England and found themselves hiding out in St. John’s, NL. They staged a daring prison break and left Newfoundland with a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

More than 200 years ago a Sarah Singleton trekked miles through the woods to find her missing brother and came face-to-face with an axe murderer.

Murder, macabre justice and mayhem! In 18th century Newfoundland there was a punishment worse than death — the gibbet.

The story of Newfoundland’s first bank robbery.