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 | Nov 19, 2025 | 1920s Cases, Blog
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Francis Percy Toplis was a career criminal starting in childhood. He was a bully, a thief and eventually a murderer. But there would be no trial or conviction. Percy would be shot and killed in a standoff with the...
by Karen | Jun 22, 2022 | 1920s Cases, Blog, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch this case on YouTube? Watch here For this case, we are travelling back to 1923, to the Savoy Hotel London. On the night of a thunderous storm that rocked the city, following a loud and raucous argument, a wife shoots her husband dead. She is...
by Karen | Jun 15, 2022 | 1920s Cases, Female Criminal
Prefer to watch this case on my YouTube channel? Watch here Christiana Edmunds was in love. The object of her desire Dr Charles Beard tall, handsome and “extremely prepossessing of demeanour” – which is 19th century English for very attractive. But when Dr...
by Karen | Jul 28, 2018 | 1920s Cases, Blog, Unsolved
Murder or mishap? On the 30th June 1926, James William White, age 43 and 2 acquaintances were at Acorn Wood in Nottinghamshire. Spying on a romantic liaison between a couple laid on the grass beside their motorbike at the roadside. Just before midnight, the couple...
