Crimes Through Time

When a woman's body is found on a secluded street in 1890 following a savage attack, fear ran high that Jack the Ripper was back.
The murderer was Mary Pearcey, the victim her love rival but then speculation began could Jack the Ripper really be Jill and Ripper and if so was it Mary Pearcey who was responsible for the Whitechapel murder spree just 2 years previous.

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In this episode, we are travelling back to 1923, to the Savoy Hotel London. On the night of a thunderous storm that rocked the city, following a loud and raucous argument, a wife shoots her husband dead. She is discovered with the gun in her hand and admitted to the murder immediately. She committed the crime, no doubt about it. Then how was she found not guilty at trial? 

This case has it all, privilege, money, royalty and affairs.

Hello and welcome to Crimes Through Time, where I talk about snapshots of crime history.  In this episode, we are travelling back to 1870’s Brighton on the English coast.

Christiana Edmunds was in love.  The object of her desire Dr Charles Beard is tall, handsome and “extremely prepossessing of demeanour” - which is 19th century English for very attractive. But when Dr Beard ended their friendship Christiana made a plan.  A plan that would leave an innocent 4-year-old boy dead.

1944 London was a scene of devastation, after years of being bombarded from the air as World War 2 raged.  The people though were standing strong, united in fighting the common enemy.  This backdrop makes the crime spree which culminated in the murder of George Edward Heath - the man with the cleft chin even more cowardly and selfish.  It rightly outraging the nation.  

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