To welcome new listeners to Behind The Crimes, every day this week I’m highlighting some of the incredible stories we have covered in the last year. This is a replay of an episode from June 2023.

In the early hours of October 4th 1922, a woman who was about to become Britain’s most notorious murder suspect walked home from the theatre with her husband.

Edith Thompson was 28, she was beautiful, had a career, a good social life… and a lover 8 years her junior.

Freddy Bywaters leapt from the shadows and stabbed her husband to death. Edith was terrified. She didn’t want her husband dead, she hadn’t held the knife.

But why did detectives charge her with murder?

In what ways did her love letters scandalise puritanical Post-War society? And as the hangman’s noose awaited a guilty verdict, how important was that opinion on the jury?

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This podcast is based on an interview with Laura Thompson, whose book ‘Rex vs Edith Thompson, a Tale of Two Murders’ can be bought here in the UK and here in the USA.

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