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...
by Karen | Feb 25, 2026 | Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In the strongly patriarchal society of the early 18th century. Men were considered more valuable than women. The Treason Act of 1351 stated that the murder of a husband by his wife was an assault on the majesty of the...
by Karen | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Unsolved
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Around 4.15 am on the 20th of December 1888, Police Sergeant Robert Golding and Constable Thomas Costello were on patrol when they came across the lifeless body of a woman in Clarke’s Yard, Poplar, London. She was lying...
by Karen | Feb 15, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here The Ratcliff Highway got its name from the red cliffs that descend from the plateau on which the road was situated, but in the 19th century, it was more of a district than a road, one with a history of vice and violence. ...
by Karen | Feb 4, 2026 | Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In the early morning hours of the 6th of November 1930, two men walking home spotted a fire burning in the distance. Nothing aroused their suspicions after all; it had just been Guy Fawkes Night. Until they encountered...
by Karen | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Elizabeth Brownrigg was a respected midwife, living with her husband and son in London in 1767. Such was the regard for her work that Saint Dunstan’s Parish appointed her overseer of women and children; she was...
