In this episode, I’m bringing you a collection of short but grisly cases from the 1800s, which on their own would be too short for an episode, but they’re too intriguing not to share so I’ve put three of them together. Let’s go back in time for a whistle-stop tour of three crimes ranging from the brutal to the mysterious. If you’re looking for murders involving deceptions, an unscrupulous businessman who exterminated an entire family, an execution by guillotine, a strange letter, the death of a living scarecrow and more, this ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ episode has you covered with these bitesize blood-soaked crimes.

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Music:

"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Epidemic Sound Eternal Moment by Farrell, Wooten Trailing by Christian Andersen

Sources:
Bondeson Jan, ‘Victorian Murders’, 2017, Amberley Publishing
British Newspaper Archive
https://murderresearch.com/historic-serious-crime-and-victim-index/
https://historian416.rssing.com/chan-60133532/all_p3.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/Traupmannn.htm
https://thanatosarchive.com/2021/11/02/knick-family-murders-1869/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Traupmannn
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VKsOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-murder-in-manchester.html
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-murder-of-sarah-jane-roberts/