Scottish Mystery: The Bound Woman and the Pit That Hid the Truth | True Crime 1909
News of the Times | Episode 552 | 1909
It’s 1909 in Musselburgh, Scotland.
A woman’s body—bound, sacked, and terribly decomposed—is found deep in an abandoned coal pit. Nearby: a torn necktie, broken combs, scattered shoes, and rumours of a second attack.

Who was she? How did she vanish unseen? And what links a missing sailor, a jealous miner, and a fragment of newspaper dated June 11th?

This new News of the Times true-crime documentary pieces together Georgina “Jeannie” Burnett’s final hours from contemporary newspaper reports. From a sailor’s ruined career to a miner’s suspicious quarrel, every clue leads closer to—but never quite solves—the Musselburgh Mystery.

🕯️ Further Particulars — an Edwardian Party Gone Rogue
Stay to the very end for a palate-cleansing detour: when a hundred fashionably dressed hooligans crashed a quiet London couple’s home for a midnight dance party, the hosts simply put on their silk dressing gowns, wished everyone a pleasant evening, and went to bed.

Society rebellion met its match in frosty good manners — proof that sometimes the sharpest weapon is an impeccably raised eyebrow.

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