The historical crimes and criminals podcast
By steven connelly
The historical crimes and criminals podcastSep 08, 2020
The Role of the Pathologist
For Many criminal cases one person has a role of uttermost importance.....that of Pathologist. in todays episode we look at what Police and Criminals lawyers need from Pathologists.
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The Corpse who escaped from Prison
Today we look at John 'Swift Nick' Nevison, a 17th Century Highwayman who's famous 200mile ride was attributed to Dick Turpins Legend in a later book. However Nevison also had a most ingenious Prison Escape from Leicester Gaol.
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The Old Bailey Sessions from 1751
In todays episode we look at a couple of the 50 cases that were heard over 5 days in the Feb/March Old Bailey sessions in 1751. These trials were over quickly and led to the term, Swift Justice.
The Hawkhurst Gang
In the first part of the 18th Century, the south coast of England had many Smuggling gangs; perhaps the most notorious was the Hawkhurst Gang. Today we read a chapter from Joseph Dragovich's book 'Hawkhurst Murder, corruption and Britains most notorious Smuggling Gang'
Many thanks to Joseph for permission to read from his book and it is available in bookshops.
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The Brighton Quickie
In English Law during the 1920s and 30s gaining a Divorce wasn't easy, but a technique was devised to secure one. It became known as a Brighton Quickie
The Nursing Home of Death
In the 1930's a Woman opened her home as a Nursing home, but her intentions weren't to help the sick.
Prostitution in 1960's London
In the 1960's a book was published which took a sideways glance at London life. One of the area's it looked at was the life of Prostitutes in their many varied forms.
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The Crown V Collins
England in 1971 saw an 19 year old man convicted of Burglary with intent to commit rape on an 18 year old woman. The case and subsequent appeal has been studied and debated by students of Law ever since.
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Samuel Pepys and his Women.
Samuel Pepys Diaries give us an insight to Daily life through the early Restoration period and he documents life during a Plague and the Great Fire of London....but his Diaries also contain his accounts of his sexual activities and they paint a picture of what we would now view as a Sexual predator.
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Pimm, G. The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys,
Pen and Sword History (2018)
A Most Bizarre Suicide
you may think stories of true crime are a modern invention, but they have always been with us....and nothing illustrates this better than a Tale of a Suicide from England in 1689 in a time when Suicide was a criminal offence.
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A Present in the Post
Merry Christmas dear listeners and as is now custom we have a fictional Christmas crime story.
This year its Cyril Hare's 1949 short story about a man who is being Blackmailed and is determined to find and gain revenge on his Blackmailer.
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The Trial Of Kitty Byron
The Old Bailey in 1902 saw the trial of a woman accused of killing her lover. She did it in plain sight and we follow the trial transcripts and witnesses who proved her guilty of Murder.
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The Outlaw who became Queen Victoria's Doctor
In todays episode, we look at the story of John forrest who went from being indicted for Body Snatching to being Queen Victoria's Doctor
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The US Nazi Spy Ring
Just a few days after the US entered into WW2 a German Spy network of 33 Spies were tried and sentenced to combination of over 300 years in Prison.
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Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard was one of the most famous criminals of 18th Century London. But it is not for his criminal exploits is he best known, but for his numerous Escapes.
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Story from: The procession to Tyburn, William McAdoo (1927)
Captain Kidd
Having recently had a pint at the Captain Kidd Pub in Wapping, London I thought I would tell you who the Real Captain Kidd was.
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A Footballing Scandal
In 1964 a footballing match fixing and betting scandal was uncovered in the UK. Football fans were appalled at such corruption in their beloved sport.
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Piper The Forger
Another Tale from the Allan Pinkerton Memoirs.
In this story we look at an American Forger called Piper.
The Lottery
After the last Battle on British soil at Culloden in 1746, the British Government had a huge amount of Prisoners held in Prison waiting for trial. They came up with a unique way to deal with this problem.
Shirley Jackson's magnificent short story, The Lotteryhttps://youtu.be/Eo6Xyaw3xGg?si=QJl4rEQ2iYWssbaz
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A Timeline of Capital Punishment in the UK
In this episode we look at a historical timeline of Capital Punishment in the UK
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The Case of the absconding Solicitor
Another case from Scotland Yard and it reads like a mix between a Sherlock Holmes short story and around the world in 80 days, with the detective chasing the suspect across the world.
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The Liquid Mathew Murder
In 1983 Miami Police found a body which they suspected to be a gang related killing...but then the case took a twist
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The Pig Faced Lady of Manchester Square
1815 in London, the talk of the town was of a rich, young Pig Faced Lady in Manchester Square. In this Regency Era she wasn't short of Suitors....
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the story of the Spaghetti trees....https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU?si=W8z4gdAZhk9eSMES
Last Meals
The world has seen many 'Last Meals'. In todays episode we look at some of the stories behind these Meals
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Tarquin of Cheapside
We know F Scott Fitzgerald for his tales of the Jazz Age, but as a Student at Princeton he wrote this tale about a man being chased through Londons dark alleys and streets.
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Chauncey Johnson: A most audacious thief
Scotsman Allan Pinkerton,founder of the Pinkerton detective agency, when writing memoirs, told this story about Chauncey Johnson
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A Classification of London Criminals in 1797
In 1797 Scottish Merchant, Statistician, Magistrate and founder of the Thames River Police published a statistical analysis of the types of London criminals.
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The Favourite
A tale of favourites, romance and murder in the Court of James I
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The Eltham Common Murder
On the 9th of February, 1918, Nellie Trew walked across Eltham Common and was never seen alive again. Scotland Yard Detective, Francis Carlin solved the crime and this is his account of the case.
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Francis Carlin: Reminiscences of a Scotland Yard Detective (1927)
The Bloody Benders
In the Old Wild West travellers were going missing. suspicion fell on the Bender Family who owned an Inn. Legend now knows them as the Blood Benders.
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Britain's first 'Wanted' Poster
Percy Lefroy Mapleton holds an important part in British Criminal History: In 1881, He was the first man to appear in the newspapers as a composite sketch as a 'Wanted' man. Moreover, his execution was graphically detailed by one newspaper.
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The Rotherham Transvestite Murder
On August 1st, 1950, a body of a woman was found dead in Rotherham....but it turned out not to be a woman.
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Margaret Drinkall, Rotherham Murders, Wharncliffe books (2011)
The Mistletoe Murder
Merry Christmas to all the listeners.
PD Jame's Classic short story of murder at Christmas.
Historical Pickpockets
In todays episode we will look at historical Pickpockets, the Artful dodgers of the world of crime
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Palk, Deirdre (2006). "Pickpocketing". Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion 1780–1830. Great Britain: The Boydell Press.
Hitchcock, Tim; Shoemaker, Robert (2010). Tales from the Hanging Court. Bloomsbury Acadaemic
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A Real Victorian Locked Room Mystery
1848 in Glasgow saw an audacious Jewellery robbery. No-one could work out how it had been perpetrated: it was a Real locked room mystery
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Glasgow: The real mean City: true crime and punishment from the second city of the empire, 2013, Black and white publishing, Malcolm Archibald:
Pubs, What's in a name(Part 3)
There are many curiously named pubs in the world, many with interesting stories. in todays episode we look at a few of these.
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www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/fun-stuff/11-brilliant-funny-stories-straight-14927009
deadpubs.co.uk/Lodges/index.shtml
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The Notting Hill Riots
Notting Hill is one of London's most desirable locations to live with all the charm of a Hugh Grant Film. However, 1958 it was essentially a slum which housed many Caribbean Immigrants. It was in this area that we saw the Notting Hill riots.
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academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbac012/6568867?login=false
warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/racism/riots/
www.mynottinghill.co.uk/the-1958-race-riots-of-notting-hill/
The Bobbed Haired Bandit
10 years before Bonnie Parker became the most famous female robber in America's history, another woman caused a sensation in New York, with her series of robberies. She was called Celia Cooney but the Newspapers called her the Bobbed Haired Bandit.
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Half hanged Smith(and other stories)
Hanging was the traditional execution throughout England and Scotland for Centuries, but it wasn't always successful. In todays episode we look at some who survived the process. They were known as the 'Half-Hanged'.
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www.executedtoday.com/2008/12/24/1705-john-half-hanged-smith-half-hanged/comment-page-1/
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The D-Day Crossword Puzzle
In 1944 during WW2 codenames for the D-Day operation started appearing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Was this a German spy at work? M15 were determined to find out.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/05/d-day-clues-hitler-had-done-telegraph-crossword/
www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/crossword-puzzle-nearly-ended-dday.html
www.history.co.uk/articles/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-d-day-puzzles
Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness is one of the United States most infamous serial killers, yet her story remains shrouded in mystery. In todays episode we look at the story behind this monster.
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(More) Statues of London
London is a city of Statues. In todays episode we will look at some more of these.
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The Convict Hulks
After the American colonies fought independence in 1775, it caused one big problem for Great Britain...we had nowhere to send our convicts. So, what was the answer?
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www.digitalpanopticon.org/Convict_Hulks
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staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/10/a-day-in-the-life-convicts-on-board-prison-hulks/
George Orwell's 'The Spike'
In 1931 George Orwell wrote an essay on his life as a tramp and a Spike he stayed in overnight. Spikes were the slang name for Workhouses.
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London's grave issue
By the 19th century Londons population had exploded and it simply had no more space for its dead. What was to be the answer?
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Knight charles, london burials
The Rev Hackman
A Tale of obsession, stalking and Murder in Georgian era London.
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Charles Dickens pets(...and other stories)
Charles Dickens had a considerable amount of pets and he generally gave them the same unusual names reserved for his literary creations....
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unbelievable-facts.com/2016/10/facts-about-famous-historical-figures.html/4
https://www.rd.com/list/bizarre-historical-coincidences/
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The Rasputin of Manhattan
New York in the 1930's saw a gang trying to kill an Irish Drunk for his life insurance: but the plan didn't go as expected.
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listverse.com/2008/04/22/top-10-amazing-people-who-cheated-death/
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Jonathon Wild, Part 3
Jonathon Wild had reached the top by 1725. He controlled London's Criminal networks. In todays episode we see his downfall.
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Jonathon Wild (Part 2)
We continue our story in 18th century London with the criminal who would inspire Sherlocks Moriarty.
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