The Murder of Dr Helen Davidson (Hodgemoor Woods, 1966)
Dr Helen Davidson was reported missing on Wednesday 9 November 1966, after failing to return home from her weekly dog walk in Hodgemoor…
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The 1912 Walsoken Murder of Minnie Morris
Background 1912 was an unsettled year in Britain. The suffragette movement had intensified, with women arrested for smashing windows and damaging property in…
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The 1928 Lake District Murder: Chung Yi Miao & Wai Sheung Siu
The Lake District. Home to rolling fells, sheep, woodland, water, boats and plenty of tourists, its peaceful landscape seems one of the least…
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The Manhunt for Barry Prudom
Murder of PC David Haigh On Thursday 17 June 1982, Police Constable David Haigh left Harrogate Police Station in North Yorkshire at around…
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Behind the Book: Researching Karl Hulten and Elizabeth Jones
It was the case famously described by George Orwell in his 1946 essay, Decline of the English Murder, in which he characterised the…
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The Murder of Dagmar Peters (Kent, 1946)
The year 1946 in England was one of uneasy transition. The Second World War had ended the previous year, but rationing remained, bomb…
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Eugen Weidmann and the Last Public Execution in France
Eugen Weidmann was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on 5 February 1908. His father, Fritz Weidmann, was a businessman, but little else is known…
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Lock Ah Tam and the Chinatown Tragedy
Lock Ah Tam was born in September 1872 in Canton, Southern China. It was the Year of the Monkey, a sign associated with…
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The Ethel Major Murder Case (Lincolnshire, 1934)
Early Life Ethel Lilly Brown was born in August 1892 in the tiny hamlet of Muckton, near Little Cawthorpe in Lincolnshire, on England’s…
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George Brain and the Wimbledon Lovers’ Lane Murder
A Body Discovery In Wimbledon On Thursday 14 July 1938, less than two weeks after the Wimbledon Championships had concluded, a murder was…
