Cozy Crime

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the fate of Lady Harriet Mordaunt, a young Scottish woman whose private confession to her husband in the spring of 1869 set in motion one of the most extraordinary legal scandals of the Victorian era, drawing a future king into a witness box and ending with Harriet herself disappearing into a series of private asylums from which she would never return.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the life of Evelyn Nesbit, the young woman at the centre of one of the most examined crimes in American history, and what it cost her to survive it.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores how a seventeen-year-old clerk in a London law office spent a year and a half forging Shakespeare's handwriting, producing love letters, legal deeds, a Protestant profession of faith, and ultimately two complete plays, all to give his father the thing his father most wanted, and what happened when one of England's greatest actors delivered a single line on the night of April second, 1796.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most genuinely unresolved cold cases in the world: two royal children who entered the Tower of London in the summer of 1483 and were never seen publicly again, leaving behind five centuries of competing theories, managed history, and a question that modern science could potentially answer but has so far chosen not to ask.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the life and crimes of Dr. William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffordshire, a trusted physician, compulsive gambler, and the man Victorian England came to know as the Rugeley Poisoner.

Formally convicted of a single murder, Palmer was suspected of killing as many as thirteen or fourteen people over the course of a decade, among them his wife, his brother, and several creditors. He was hanged at the age of thirty-one, and the country was so afraid he might escape justice that Parliament changed the law specifically because of him.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most audacious financial frauds in British history: a company that barely moved a single legitimate cargo, convinced a nation to pour its savings into a fiction, and then collapsed, leaving tens of thousands of ordinary people with nothing.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the three trials of Oscar Wilde in the spring of 1895, and the quiet, ordinary moment that set them all in motion: a calling card left at a London gentlemen's club, slipped into an envelope by a hall porter who couldn't quite make out the handwriting, and left on a shelf for ten days.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the 1924 murder of Bobby Franks, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago's South Side, and the long, complicated aftermath of the case that followed his death.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most consequential unsolved crimes in American history: a bomb thrown into a crowd on a Chicago street in 1886, eight men tried for murder, four of them hanged, and not one of them ever proven to have done it.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the strange and still-unsolved death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a trusted London magistrate who walked out of his house on a grey October morning in 1678 and never came home.

His body was found five days later on a hill north of the city, his own sword driven through his chest - yet the sword had barely drawn a drop of blood.