The Reverend and the Reprobate join Tea Time Crimes today for a nerdy tea review and a chilling case. Join the four of us as we navigate through London to follow the life of hard-drinking, kleptomaniac Kate Webster. In January of 1879, Kate finds work as a live-in domestic servant for the wealthy widow Mrs. Julia Thomas. But Kate has no intention of turning her life around, instead she will go to disgusting and despicable lengths to continue her life of crime. 

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