The Limehouse Mystery — The 1867 Case That Divided Victorian London
News of the Times | Episode 565 | 1867

A young woman found dead.
A slashed throat.
And a chilling claim from her lover — that she did it to herself.

But the neighbours heard something different: a scream in the night, the unmistakable cry of murder.
By the time the police arrived, her body was already cold… and the timeline didn’t match his story.

In this gripping case from Limehouse, 1867, we revisit the murder trial of a lighterman accused of killing his sweetheart in a cramped East End bedroom. With blood on the walls and suspicious wounds of his own, the suspect insisted it was suicide — but the evidence pointed elsewhere.

🔎 Was it murder, self-inflicted tragedy… or a calculated cover-up involving the entire household?

Join us as we unpick the contradictions, follow the inquest testimony, and explore a case that shocked Victorian London to its core — complete with ghostly rumours, courtroom theatrics, and one very unsettling post-mortem.

👤 Narrated by Robin Coles 

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📚 Related cases from the archive: 
1876: The Butler, the Gun, and the Judge: A Shocking Welsh Murder in 1876 |  EP526
https://youtu.be/Wx1uLMVe8Sk
1874: The Baffling Case of Margaret Ball - Found Hanging — But Did He Kill Her?  |  EP527
https://youtu.be/qFitIfeXqDI
1872: Pushed to Her Death:  Murder on London Bridge |  EP529
https://youtu.be/KT94zNl440g

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