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Over the years since the Jack the Ripper murders occurred, numerous suspects have been put forward as possible contenders for having been history’s most infamous serial killer. There is, however, a general consensus that, whoever the perpetrator of […]

Jealousy was a major motive for murder in 19th century London. In fact, the court cases that were reported in the newspapers featured numerous cases where a murder had been triggered by a jealous outburst on the part […]

Just like today, murders took place all over the country in the 19th century, and many of them were equally as horrible, some more so, than those of Jack the Ripper. A report on one such crime appeared […]

On the 28th of June, 1887, Miriam Agnel was murdered at her house in Batty Street, Whitechapel. A lodger in the same house, Israel Lipski was subsequently charged with her murder, and, after a trial at the Old […]

In December, 1893, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, and elderly couple who ran a farm in Port Credit, Canada, were brutally murdered, in a crime that shocked the neighbourhood. Ultimately, a man named Walter M’Wherrel was tried, found guilty […]

There are numerous records in the Victorian newspapers that show how colourful life was in the Victorian East End in the latter half of the 19th century. The Tamworth Herald, in its edition of Saturday the 6th of […]

Victorian society saw so many leaps forward when it came to technology and science. Yet many people still clung to age old beliefs, and superstition was rife throughout the country. In the courts there were many cases that […]

The Victorian newspapers, as well as covering stories of murders and other sensational things, also published stories that really do show the mental anguish that people were suffering. One such story appeared in The Central Somerset Gazette on […]

In the 1860s, there was a great deal of debate in the newspapers as to whether or not the death penalty, even in murder cases was justified. It was being argued that, in many cases, a plea of […]

Studying various inquest reports from the 19th century, it soon becomes apparent that there were a huge number of cases that came before coroners across the country, whereby new born babies had died under suspicious circumstances, and the […]