The Holborn Horror & Ramsgate Reckoning - Serial Murders
News of the Times Episode 400 | 1865
This case from 1865 was horrific and beyond disturbing.
A coffee shop with rooms above agrees to lodge overnight three young boys, aged 10, 8 and 6.  The man who brings them in is polite and asks that the boys stay on their own.  The café agrees.  The man takes them out for a walk during the day, feeds them, locks them in their rooms and leaves.  He promises to be back the next morning.
When he does not arrive, the staff are concerned and go up to check on the young boys.  They are horrified by what they find.  Scotland yard are called in.
Meantime, in Ramsgate, a middle-aged woman with her young daughter, is greeted by the man who had abandoned her over 8 years previously.  The initial conversations in the company of others seem to go well, and she agrees to be alone with him for a more private dialogue. Their killing is both unexpected and brutal.
The terrible series of murders left 5 dead.  The motivation which seems quite convoluted initially, turns out to be so much more petty than expected.  Or is it insanity as the defence will try to prove?
We take a look at this gruesome murder spree from 1865: The Holborn Horror & Ramsgate Reckoning
Hosted by Robin Coles.

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