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 | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Dr John Bodkin Adams was a general practitioner working in the seaside town of Eastbourne. He was not a talented doctor but was considered compassionate and caring by his rich clients. However, from 1935, people began to...
by Karen | Dec 24, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Caroline Walsh was 84 years old in 1831. She had fallen on hard times and had to make money by spending hours walking the streets selling ribbons and threads. When her neighbours, Elizabeth Ross and her common-law husband...
by Karen | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On Friday, the 10th of April 1835, a trial opened at Bristol Assizes that caused great excitement throughout the city. Mary Ann Burdock stood accused of the murder of Clara Anne Smith, her elderly lodger, to steal the...
by Karen | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog, Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On the 28th of August 1981, at around 8 am, Ripon Police Station in Yorkshire received a mysterious phone call. Pc John Jeffries answered, a male voice said quote “Near Scawton Moor House, you will find a decomposed body...
by Karen | May 12, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here Sarah Dazley was unlucky in love, married twice, and both men became inexplicably unwell and passed away, one in 1840 and the other in 1842. She even lost her young son to an unexplained illness. Rumours began to...
by Karen | May 5, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here In January 1923, the police would force entry to the flat above a tailor’s shop, as they did, a shot rang out from the bedroom. Cecil Maltby had taken his life. In the bath, they found the remains of his missing...
by Karen | Apr 3, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here This case was a pivot one in English Legal history. The killers of Ann and Thomas Farrow would become the first to be convicted of murder using fingerprint identification. So, let’s explore the mask murders. At...
by Karen | Mar 14, 2025 | Uncategorised
Prefer to watch the YouTube video? Click Here On the 19th of August 1951, Beatrice Alice Rimmer was enjoying an evening visit with her son Thomas. At around 9.45 pm she left his home on Madrid Street, Toxteth Liverpool. Thomas walked her to the bus stop on High Park...
