The Woman in the Water Tub: The 1915 Murder of Carrie Jubb
News of the Times | Episode 534 | 1915
At 6 a.m. on a cold February morning, a young stable hand in Huddersfield made a horrifying discovery: a woman’s body, bruised and bloodied, was found kneeling headfirst in a horse’s water tub. Her name was Carrie Jubb, a woman of no fixed abode, with a troubled past—and no one to sound the alarm when she didn’t return home.

Who killed her? And why?

In this chilling Edwardian true crime case, we examine a life lived on the margins—of class, of safety, and of society’s concern.

With abusive partners, jealous exes, and shifting witness statements, Carrie’s story is one of silent suffering and systemic failure. No one was ever brought to trial. And her killer likely walked free.

⚖️ From newspaper accounts and inquest records, we piece together the last known movements of Carrie Jubb—and the circumstantial case that nearly led to justice.

🕯️ Further Particulars Segment
After the main case, we turn to a Victorian horror of a different sort:
💀 The Dangers of Overthinking.
In our bonus tale from 1879, a young American woman’s death is blamed not on arsenic or foul play—but on astronomy, watercolours, and excessive learning.

Prepare for a tragic warning from the annals of pseudoscience: ladies, beware—too much education may be… fatal.

👤 Narrated by Robin Coles 

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