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In November 1966, respected Buckinghamshire doctor Helen Davidson was brutally murdered while walking her dog in Hodgemoor Woods, leaving her fox terrier as the sole witness. There was no clear motive for the strange killing. The local police, assisted by Scotland Yard detectives, initially focused on Helen's husband and their housekeeper. Later, more information would come to light, along with other tragic deaths connected to the case and the discovery of a further key suspect. 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/dr-helen-davidson-murder/ 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616 📺 Subscribe for video versions: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 📬 Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap  ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap  💵 PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🎧 Check out my other show Curious Britain Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of the UK https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousBritainPodcast 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Sources: Ancestry.co.uk October 1917 Helen Davidson, London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1925 1921 England Census 1933 Electoral Role for Herbert and Ruby Baker 1939 England and Wales National Register 1965 Ordnance Survey Map Probate Record for Ruby Baker Various historic postcards from my private collection (Prash Ganendran) Birmingham Evening Mail 11 Nov 1966 Bucks Examiner 19 February 1960, 16 Feb 1962, 19 Jul 1962, 31 Aug 1962, 18 Nov 1966, 10 Nov 1967, 15 Nov 1968, 20 Oct 1969 Bucks Free Press 18 Nov 1966, 25 Nov 1966, 2 Dec 1966, 15 Nov 1968 Daily Express 11 Nov 1966 Daily Mirror 11 Nov 1966, 12 Nov 1966, 14 Nov 1966 Leicester Daily Mercury 11 Nov 1966 Weller, Monica. Injured Parties: Solving the Murder of Dr Helen Davidson. The History Press. Time Team, Chesham Bois, S14 E10 – Tony Robinson. Music: "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Promising Relationship" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In the summer of 1912, 21-year-old Minnie Morris left London for a working holiday picking fruit in the quiet fenland village of Walsoken. When her body was discovered beside a country lane, suspicion fell on fellow fruit-picker Robert Galloway, who had already made a surprising confession but went on to change his story. 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616 📺 Subscribe for video versions: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/walsoken-murder-minnie-morris/ Listen to the 1885 Botched Execution of Robert Goodale https://open.spotify.com/episode/260m3qyWQFlfsI98Vrp28J 📬 Subscribe to my free newsletter and read more true crime articles: https://prashganendran.com 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap  ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap  💵 PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap   🎧 Listen to my other podcast Curious Britain Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast   🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License  "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License "Ominous" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: 1891,1901,1911 England Census Robert Galloway, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 Robert Galloway, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 Cambridgeshire Times, 26 July 1912, 25 Oct 1912 Downham Market Gazette, 20 July 1912 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 17 July 1912 Eastern Evening News, 17 July 1912, 19 October 1912, 28 October 1912, 5 November 1912 The East Suffolk Gazette, 30 July 1912 Lynn Advertiser, 26 July 1912 The Daily Mirror 16 July 1912 The Daily News and Leader, 19 July 1912 The Weekly Standard 26 July 1912 The Weekly Times, 21 July 1912

In January 1990, Ontario was gripped by one of Canada’s largest manhunts in 15 years. Peter John Peters, a violent ex-convict known as ‘The Tattoo Man’, terrorised the province for several days, leaving a trail of theft, assault and murder. From the brutal killing of a 63-year-old cleaner to the stabbing of two young women and a bank robbery, his crime spree tested law enforcement and left communities in fear. 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616 📬 Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap 💵 PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for watching. Your support helps keep Prash’s Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music:  "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Epidemic Sound Sources: Ancestry Crime Stories — Peter John Peters (2007) Niagara Falls Review — 2 February 1990; 21 December 1990 North Bay Nugget — 30 January 1990; 8 February 1990 The Expositor — 23 January 1990; 8 January 1991; 27 August 2005; 29 August 2005 The Hamilton Spectator — 25 January 1990; 21 December 1990 The Sault Star — 8 February 1990 The Spectator — 1 December 1990 The Standard — 1 February 1990; 27 August 2005; 29 August 2005 The Toronto Star — 25 January 1990; 26 January 1990; 27 January 1990; 14 February 2007; 2 December 2013 The Toronto Sun — 26 January 1990 The Tribune — 2 December 2013 The Windsor Star — 25 January 1990

In June 1928, a newly married Chinese couple arrived in the Lake District to enjoy their honeymoon. Days later, 28-year-old Wai Sheung Siu was found strangled in woodland near Derwentwater. Suspicion fell on her husband as hidden jewellery, cryptic notes, and reports of mysterious men and secret societies became part of a sensational murder case. 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616 📺 Subscribe for video versions: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/the-1928-lake-district-murder-chung-yi-miao-wai-sheung-siu/ 📬 Subscribe to my free newsletter and read more true crime articles: https://prashganendran.com 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap 💵 PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🎧 Listen to my other podcast Curious Britain Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast   🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: Epidemic Sound "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Ancestry.co.uk Two Chinese Domestic Murders – H. J. Lethbridge UK, Calendar of Prisoners, 1868–1929 New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1928 The Scotsman – Thursday 4 August 1927 Edinburgh Evening News – 21 June 1928 Reynolds's Newspaper – Sunday 22 July 1928 Newcastle Daily Chronicle - Thursday 02 August 1928 Sheffield Daily Telegraph – 2 August 1928 Cumberland and Westmorland Herald – Saturday 4 August 1928 Gloucestershire Echo - Tuesday 23 October 1928 The Nottingham Journal – 24 October 1928 Barrow News – Saturday 27 October 1928 Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser – Saturday 27 October 1928 Evening News (London) – 20 November 1928 Shields Daily News – Tuesday 20 November 1928 Evening Standard – 20 November 1928 The Journal – 21 November 1928 Dundee Weekly News – Saturday 24 November 1928 The News – 1 December 1928 The Sunday People – Sunday 2 December 1928 Daily Express – Saturday 8 December 1928 Liverpool Echo – Saturday 8 December 1928 The Cincinnati Enquirer – 25 December 1928 The Sunday People – Sunday 6 January 1929 The Sunday Sun – 6 January 1929 Tuesday Express – Tuesday 26 March 1929

On 1 July 2026, we were interviewed by Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe about our latest book, Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, which examines the 1944 crime spree that culminated in the shooting of private car hire driver George Edward Heath, known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder'. This is the recording of the interview in which we briefly explore several aspects of the case, including crime and society in wartime London, American servicemen in Britain during the Second World War, and the lives of Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten who were aged 18 and 22 at the time of their crime spree. Available as a hardback or e-book: 👉From the publisher (Pen & Sword): https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334 👉From Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1036129616 📚 Read more about our research https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ www.youtube.com/@TRETalkRadioEurope https://www.talkradioeurope.com Talk Radio Europe holds the copyright to the audio in this interview. Unauthorised reproduction, copying, downloading or redistribution of this content is strictly prohibited.

In June 1982, the murder of Police Constable David Haigh sparked the largest manhunt Britain had seen at that time. As fugitive Barry Prudom moved through the forests and villages of North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, he left more victims in his wake, including Sergeant David Winter. Hundreds of police officers, helicopters, armed units and a specialist wilderness tracker joined the search, which culminated in the ‘Siege of Malton’. But how did a reserved former electrician and family man become one of the country’s most dangerous fugitives, known as the Phantom of the Forest? Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 📘 Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616 📺 Subscribe for video versions: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Ancestry.co.uk Murder Casebook Volume 4 by Prash Ganendran Headline Crime: The Malton Manhunt Manhunt The Phantom Cop Killer Peter N. Walker's account as Liaison Officer for North Yorkshire Police Aldershot News, 14 May 1982 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 17 May 1982 Reading Evening Post, 18 May 1982 Lincolnshire Echo, 23 June 1982 Lincolnshire Echo, 24 June 1982 Daily Mail, 28 June 1982 Daily News, 28 June 1982 Lincolnshire Echo, 28 June 1982 Daily Mirror, 29 June 1982 Daily Post, 29 June 1982 Liverpool Daily Post, 29 June 1982 Western Daily Press, 29 June 1982 Daily Post, 30 June 1982 Lincolnshire Echo, 30 June 1982 The Scotsman, 30 June 1982 The Sunday People, 4 July 1982 Daily Mirror, 5 July 1982 Daily News, 5 July 1982 Daily Post, 5 July 1982 Hull Daily Mail, 5 July 1982 Western Daily Press, 5 July 1982 Daily Mirror, 6 July 1982 Liverpool Daily Post, 8 July 1982 Liverpool Daily Post, 19 July 1982 Daily Post, 27 August 1982 Huddersfield, 8 October 1982 Lincolnshire Echo, 30 March 1983

On Christmas Day 1872, the body of 31-year-old Harriet Buswell was discovered in a Bloomsbury lodging house, her throat brutally cut inside a locked room. As detectives reconstructed her final hours, conflicting witness statements and rumours of a mysterious ‘German gentleman’ sent the investigation spiralling in the wrong direction. In this episode, we examine this baffling unsolved case that bears striking similarities to the later Jack the Ripper murders, and the tragic story of a young woman whose killer was never found. 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334 📺 Subscribe for video versions: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: Epidemic Sound "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources:   National Archives, Murder of Harriet Buswell at Great Coram Street MEPO 3/111 and 3/114 Birmingham Mail - Saturday 28 December 1872 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 29 January 1873 Tromp, Marlene. “A Priori: Harriet Buswell and Unsolved Murder Before Jack the Ripper, 24-25 December 1872.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web.

In October 1946, 48-year-old Dagmar Peters was found murdered on Wrotham Hill in Kent after a lorry driver spotted a blue shoe at the roadside. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, later immortalised in the TV series Fabian of the Yard. Suspicion fell on lorry driver Sidney Sinclair, a man with multiple aliases whose story soon unravelled under questioning. 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/dagmar-peters-murder/ 📘 My latest book: Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 📺 Subscribe for video versions YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Music: Epidemic Sound "Promising Relationship" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: National Archives: MEPO 3/2743; PCOM 9/740 Ancestry.co.uk Murder at Wrotham Hill. Quercus, 2012 Daily Mirror – Friday 11 December 1908 Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) – Saturday 12 December 1908 Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser – Friday 25 December 1908 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – Friday 01 November 1946 Daily News (London) – Monday 04 November 1946 Evening News (London) – Saturday 23 November 1946 Derby Daily Telegraph – Friday 20 December 1946 Daily Mirror – Saturday 01 March 1947 Evening News (London) – Tuesday 18 March 1947 Western Morning News – Wednesday 19 March 1947 Maidstone Telegraph – Friday 21 March 1947 The People – Sunday 03 August 1947

In 1885, in the Fenland village of Walsoken near Wisbech, Bathsheba Goodale was last seen alive with her husband, Robert. That night, he returned home alone, his trousers soaked and his boots thick with mud. He showed little concern when his wife failed to come back from the fields, and his strange indifference quickly stirred suspicion among the villagers. The discovery of Bathsheba’s body at the bottom of a well was followed by a murder charge, a trial, and a guilty verdict. Robert Goodale was condemned to death. Yet it was not the crime that would secure his place in history, but its notorious aftermath. His execution became infamous as one of Britain’s worst botched hangings. 📖 Read the full article: https://prashganendran.com/penny_dreadfuls/walsoken-murder/ 📬 Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 📺 Watch the video version: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: Epidemic Sound "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  Sources:  Ancestry.co.uk Census Records (1851, 1861, 1871, 1881) Lincolnshire Free Press, Tuesday 22 September 1885 Lynn News & County Press, Saturday 26 September 1885 Eastern Evening News - Saturday 14 November 1885 Eastern Evening News, Saturday 28 November 1885 Norfolk News, Saturday 5 December 1885 Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 10 November 1888 The A-Z of Curious Norfolk, Sarah Doig Norfolk Murders, Neil R. Storey Trove, National Library of Australia, newspaper article: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111013766

In 1960s Kraków, Poland, a string of random, brutal stabbings shocked the city and left police hunting a killer with no apparent motive. At first, nobody suspected Karol Kot; a polite, intelligent teenager hiding an obsession with knives and violence. The two murders and multiple attempted murders he committed would earn him the nickname ‘The Vampire of Kraków.’ 📘 Learn more about my latest book Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334 Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 📺 Subscribe for video versions YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap  🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash’s Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: Epidemic Sound "Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Karol  Kot – Wizja Lokalna, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-et-kqwcJwc Seryjni mordercy – Był sobie chłopiec – Karol Kot (2008) Karol Kot. Wampir z Krakowa. Przed maturą chodził… polować M jak morderca. Karol Kot – wampir z Krakowa, Przemyslaw Semczuk Murder Casebook Volume 2, Prash Ganendran “Case 95: The Vampire of Kraków”, Casefile Podcast, 2019 Nucleus, “#0289, Vampire of Kraków Karol Kot”, November 2021, The True Crime Database “The Vampire of Krakow, Karol Kot, Poland”, Evidence Locker Podcast, 2022 Harriet Williamson, “In cold blood: sex maniac teen serial killer dubbed ‘Vampire of Kraków’ went on stabbing spree so he could drink victims’ blood”, The Sun, October 2018, https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7626084/teen-serial-killer-vampire-of-krakow/

In Victorian London, 15-year-old Agnes Norman was working as a nursemaid when a 14-month-old girl in her care died suddenly and mysteriously. When suspicions were raised, police uncovered a disturbing pattern. Over the previous three years, Agnes had worked in several households, and each time, a string of sudden deaths – children and pets alike - followed in her wake. Was it cold-blooded murder, or a stunningly tragic coincidence? 📖 Read the full article: https://prashganendran.com/penny_dreadfuls/the-murderess-of-newington-butts-the-strange-case-of-agnes-norman/ 📬 Subscribe to my free newsletter and read more true crime articles: https://prashganendran.com 📺 Watch the video version: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio-only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash's Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: Epidemic Sound "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - ending Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Sources: Ancestry.co.uk, including Census Records for 1851, 1861, and 1871. England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1954, FamilySearch. Old Bailey Online. Sun & Central Press, Saturday 6 May 1871. Norwood News, Saturday 13 May 1871. Public Opinion, Saturday 2 September 1871. Essex Times, Wednesday 19 July 1871.  Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 20 May 1871. Simon Read, Scotland Yard: A Bloody History (Headline). Paul Thomas Murphy, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane.

In November 1884, 68-year-old Emma Ann Whitehead Keyse was brutally murdered in her home in Babbacombe, Devon. As investigators pieced together the crime, suspicion fell on a household member, leading to a trial that gripped the public. But the story didn’t end in the courtroom, as the fate of the accused would take an extraordinary turn that made headlines across Victorian England. 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/penny_dreadfuls/john-babbacombe-lee/ 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ 📺 Watch the video version: YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash’s Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: "Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Long Note Two” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Ancestry.co.uk Home Office Records, HO 144/148//A38492: Criminal Cases: Lee, John Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams - Monday 19 September 1881 Express and Echo - Monday 17 November 1884 Wigan Observer and District Advertiser - Friday 21 November 1884 Herald of Wales - Saturday 06 December 1884 North London News - Saturday 07 February 1885 North Devon Journal - Thursday 28 January 1909 Rope, Knife and Chair by Guy Logan, 1928 The Man They Could Not Hang: The True Story of John Lee by Michael Holgate, 2005

Eugen Weidmann, a German-born criminal, carried out a spree of theft, kidnapping, and murder in Paris in the late 1930s, in a case that involved foreign victims, buried bodies, ransom notes, and multiple accomplices. His calm, deceptive charm helped him evade the police for two years before he was finally captured. In 1939, Weidmann became the last man to be publicly guillotined; a controversial method of execution that would remain in use in France until 1977. 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/eugen-weidmann-last-public-execution-france/ 📘 Learn more about my latest book Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ Subscribe to my free newsletter: https://prashganendran.com 📺 Subscribe for video versions YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash’s Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: “Long Note Two” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Ancestry.co.uk Daily Herald – Thursday 30 December 1937 San Francisco Chronicle – Sunday 25 December 1938 Bradford Observer – Tuesday 14 March 1939 Bradford Observer – Wednesday 15 March 1939 Daily News (London) – Thursday 16 March 1939 Daily Express – Friday 17 March 1939 Daily Express – Thursday 30 March 1939 Birmingham Mail – Saturday 01 April 1939 Leicester Evening Mail – Tuesday 16 May 1939 Hull Daily Mail – Saturday 17 June 1939 Halifax Evening Courier – Saturday 17 June 1939 Sunday Post – Sunday 18 June 1939 https://www.guillotine.dk/pages/history.html

After a birthday celebration in Birkenhead in 1925, the Tam family’s life of respectability and success suddenly unravelled in a violent tragedy. This episode explores the life of Lock Ah Tam, his role as a respected figure in Liverpool’s Chinese community, and the fateful events that led to one of the most shocking family murders of the era, set against the backdrop of Liverpool’s Chinatown and surrounded by the eerie coincidences that haunted the case long afterwards. 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/lock-ah-tam-and-the-chinatown-tragedy/ 📘 Learn more about my latest book Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ 📺 Subscribe for video versions YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash’s Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: "Long Note Three", "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Ancestry.co.uk National Library of Wales Liverpool Echo – Wednesday 02 December 1925 Lancashire Evening Post – Wednesday 02 December 1925 Evening Express – Thursday 03 December 1925 Northampton Chronicle and Echo – Friday 22 January 1926 Liverpool Evening Express – Wednesday 27 January 1926 Liverpool Echo – Friday 05 February 1926 Westminster Gazette – Saturday 06 February 1926 Leeds Mercury – Saturday 06 February 1926 Daily Express – Monday 08 February 1926 Shields Daily Gazette - Wednesday 13 August 1924 Daily Express – Monday 08 February 1926 (duplicate entry) Widnes & Runcorn Chronicle – Saturday 27 March 1926 Sunday Sun – Sunday 28 March 1926 Illustrated Police News - Thursday 10 December 1925 Witness History – “The Scandal of Liverpool’s Missing Chinese Sailors”, 2020 LiverpoolEcho.co.uk – January 2022 Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 11 February 1926 Daily Express - Wednesday 24 March 1926 Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer Sat, Nov 25 The Curious Disappearance of Mr Foo (Podcast), 2023 Murder Casebook 86 Friends of Flaybrick Memorial Gardens https://flaybrick.org/catherine-cecelia-and-doris-tam-1926/ Seal, L. & Neale, A., (2019) “Race, Racialisation and ‘Colonial Common Sense’ in Capital Cases of Men of Colour in England and Wales, 1919–1957”, Open Library of Humanities 5(1), 64. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.471

On the streets of Folkestone, Kent, amid World War II, 18-year-old Caroline Trayler disappeared after being seen drinking at the local pub one Sunday evening in June 1943. When Police Constable Lewis entered a bombed-out grocer’s shop several days later in the hunt for the missing woman, he discovered a tragic scene which confirmed that the missing person’s case had now become a murder enquiry. 📘 Learn more about my latest book Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/ 📖 Prefer to read? Full article: https://prashganendran.com/the-wartime-murder-of-caroline-trayler-by-dennis-leckey-1943/ 📺 Subscribe for video versions YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap 💡 Support my work Patreon (audio only ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap 🙏 Thank you for listening. Your support helps keep Prash’s Murder Map going and is very much appreciated. Music: "Long Note Three", "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources: Ancestry https://www.ancestry.co.uk Professor Keith Simpson: An Autobiography, 1978, Harrap Ltd A Lance for Liberty, J.D. Casswell, George Harrap & Co Ltd British Newspaper Archive, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Daily News 22 June 1943 Folkestone Herald, 24 July 1943 Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald - Saturday 25 September 1943 Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 02 November 1943 Daily Mirror - Tuesday 02 November 1943 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 November 1943 Sunday Sun (Newcastle) - Sunday 07 November 1943 Daily Herald - Saturday 24 February 1945 Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 24 February 1945 Stockport Advertiser and Guardian - Friday 23 March 1945 Kensington News and West London Times - Friday 23 August 1946 Wells Journal - Friday 04 October 1946 https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/dennis-leckey?category=19 https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/cambridge-house-knowl-view-rochdale/part-f-other-institutions/dennis-leckey.html