by Karen | Oct 31, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Edmund Kesteven was born in 1855 in Sutton – in- Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He was the third of 6 children born to Edwin and Dorothy Kesteven. They all worked in the family business as framework knitters. It was a...
by Karen | Sep 16, 2026 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On the 2nd of November 1917, around 8.30 am, a roadman who would be known as Jack the Sweeper was doing his work in Regent Square, Bloomsbury, London, when he discovered a bundle packaged in sacking and butchers’...
by Karen | Sep 12, 2026 | Blog
Guest post for Crimes Through Time by Ankana Das Ankana Das is the lead writer at The Case Hunter, an independent online magazine covering European unsolved and historic cases. On the night of Tuesday 18 April 1876, a thirty-year-old barrister staggered out of his...
by Karen | Sep 2, 2026 | Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Alice Arden hated her husband Thomas. She was in a long-standing affair with a local tailor, and Thomas was in the way; Alice decided the only remedy to the situation was murder. It would take 2 years and many attempts,...
by Karen | Aug 26, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In 1947, the UK, still reeling from the effects of the Second World War, faced the harshest winter on record. Thick snow covered the country for weeks, causing a national coal shortage as people tried to keep their homes...
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. ...
