by Karen | Jul 29, 2026 | Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Louisa Masset gave birth to Manfred her illegitimate son in 1896, the scandal caused her to leave her native France and settle in London. She was not the maternal type from the beginning and entrusted the care of her son...
by Karen | Jul 22, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On the 10th of February 1918, the body of Nellie Trew was found on Eltham Common. She had been violated and strangled. Two key pieces of evidence were found at the scene: a badge and a coat button. It would be these...
by Karen | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On the 14th of June, 1946, police broke down the door to a locked basement room in an elegant Belgravia townhouse. Inside, they found a grisly scene. Elizabeth McLindon sat at a table, phone in hand, a bullet in the back...
by Karen | May 27, 2026 | 1920s Cases, Unsolved
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Florence Nightingale Shore was an accomplished nurse, just like her celebrated second cousin and godmother, whom she was named after. She hadn’t been back in England long following her service abroad, when on the 12th of...
by Karen | Apr 29, 2026 | 1920s Cases, Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In October 1923, 13-year-old John Johnson was a newspaper boy, delivering to flats in Newslands Street, Coatbridge, where he encountered Susan Newell. She was a woman with a temper who had a history of being violent. ...
by Karen | Apr 8, 2026 | 1920s Cases, Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Whilst Irene was killed by 2 opportunistic men, in contrast, Emily was murdered by someone close to her, her fiancé Patrick Mahon or Derek Patterson as she knew him. However, in both cases, the motive was money. Irene...
by Karen | Mar 25, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here The Crumbles is a shingle beach between Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay, and it is the scene for 2 separate and unrelated murders 4 years apart. In 1920, Irene Munro was beaten to death by 2 local men and in 1924, Emily Kaye...
by Karen | Mar 18, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Maria Marten loved William Corder, but it was a complicated affair. William wanted to keep it a secret, but when a child was born in 1827, this was impossible. The couple eloped, or at least that’s what her family...
by Karen | Mar 11, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Gay Gibson was a stunning actress, just about to get her big break. Following a short theatre tour of South Africa in October 1947, she boarded the steamship the Durban Castle, sailing to Southampton, where a part on the...
by Karen | Mar 6, 2026 | Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Florence and James Maybrick had a troubled marriage; both parties were serially unfaithful, and neither wanted the union to continue. Then James got ill, not unusual; he was a lifelong hypochondriac, but this time, he...
