After a chaotic catch-up involving friendship break-ups, ignored WhatsApp messages, and the glamour of eating Super Noodles in the bath, we take a sharp turn into the gas-lit streets of Victorian Lambeth.

This week, we’re heading back to 1891 to meet Thomas Neill Cream – a doctor with a taste for power, poison, and blackmail. Known to history as The Lambeth Poisoner, Cream left a trail of women dead across three continents, fuelled by arrogance and strychnine. From letters to MPs and absurd ransom notes to his infamous final words on the gallows, this is the story of the man who thought he was cleverer than everyone else — and very nearly got away with it.

Grab a drink (preferably not from a stranger in Lambeth) and join us as we unravel one of South London’s most chilling Victorian murder sprees.

Sources include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Neill_Cream 

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co179113/metropolitan-police-letter-and-photographs-of-dr-neill-cream-the-lambeth-poisoner-england-1890-1907

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/240221

https://web.archive.org/web/20130806111409/http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/08/lambeth-poisoner.html

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92296172

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-evil-deeds-of-dr-cream

https://thejacktherippertour.com/casebook/suspects/dr-neill-cream/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/true-crime-case-of-murderous-dr-cream-review/2021/08/11/1fd00dc0-f93d-11eb-8a67-f14cd1d28e47_story.html

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