This is the curious case of a killer who handed himself in more than 20 years after committing murder. What made him come forward after so long, when he could have continued to lay low, safe in the knowledge that he was unlikely to ever be found, in the days long before the advent of DNA?

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Sources

Bondeson Jan, ‘Victorian Murders’, 2017, Amberley Publishing
Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 03 July 1857
Morning Advertiser - Thursday 16 July 1857
Leeds Times - Saturday 18 July 1857 https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-147-18551217 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/187716259 https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name=18791020