In September 1907, Emily Dimmock was found murdered in her rented rooms in Camden Town, her throat cut while she slept. Known to some as “Phyllis,” she lived a double life in Edwardian London, moving between respectability and survival.

This episode explores Emily’s final days, the trial that followed, andwhy the Camden Town Murder remains unsolved more than a century later.

Source Materials

Napley, Sir David. The Camden Town Murder. In Great Murder Trials of the Twentieth Century. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion.

Barber, John. The Camden Town Murder.

Barber, John. “The Camden Town Murder.” Ripperologist, no. 44 (December 2002). Reprinted at Casebook.org.

Grant, Thomas. Court Number One: The Old Bailey, the Trials and Scandals. London: John Murray, 2019.

Oates, Jonathan. Unsolved Murders in Victorian and Edwardian London. Barnsley: Wharncliffe, 2007.

Melville, Elizabeth. “The Camden Town Murder.” Medium.com.

Tilstra, Elizabeth. “A Killer in London: The Camden Town Murder.” The Line-Up.

Contemporary newspaper coverage including The News of the World, Illustrated Police News, and The Penny Illustrated Paper (1907).