Murder & Misadventure

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Gatton: Three Bodies, A Paddock And A Right Muddle

They found three dead people in a Queensland paddock in 1898 and the whole place acted like it had never seen trouble before.Read More

The Girl Who Took a Nap and Never Woke

A routine toe job, a bottle of chloroform, and a Victorian hospital that looked utterly gormless afterward.Read More

They Burned Her For Being A Fairy

An Irish cottage, old superstition and a husband who decided his wife had been nicked by the fair folk - gruesome and daft in equal measure.Read More

Frances Coles and That Night in Swallow Gardens

A small lane, a sloppy cutting, and a police team that made everyone ask 'give over' out loud.Read More

Terriss and the Stage Door Stabber

A theatrical death, a household grievance, and one man who thought revenge smelled marvellous and then gruesomely did it.Read More

The Day the Motor Took a Life at Crystal Palace

A summer demonstration turned grim when an early motorcar struck Bridget Driscoll and Victorian Britain discovered there were downsides to progress.Read More

Martha Tabram and the Night at George Yard

A bit of Whitechapel that refused to behave quietly, a woman with a shabby life and a peculiar headline appetite from the press.Read More

Stanfield Hall and the man who tried to rewrite his debts

A Norfolk house, a crooked plan, and a bloke whose impulse to solve cash problems went shockingly viral for 1848-this is messy, dramatic, actually wild.Read More

When an Electric Telegraph Tattled on a Murderer

A domestic spat, a cup of prussic acid, and the new-fangled telegraph making policemen look frighteningly competent.Read More

Constance Kent The Girl Who Confessed

I keep coming back to a house where silence got violent and gossip did a slow murder-side hustle.Read More
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