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Join me for the final episode in the Albert Pierrepoint series. In this instalment I will look at the what lead to the abolition of capital punishment, and visit some key cases, from the hanging of Edith Thompson to the final executions of Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans.
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Resources
Pierrepoint: Executioner an autobiography
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b47213&seq=673&format=plaintext Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of evidence, taken before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930, together with Appendices and Index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 9th December, 1930 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20abolish%20penal,law%20relating%20to%20the%20proceedings https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/the-clerkenwell-explosion-and-why-the-fenians-mattered/ https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/today-in-terrorism-december-13-1867-clerkenwell-outrage/ https://dbpedia.org/page/Clerkenwell_explosion http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/timeline.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/wells.html https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/modern-britain/capital-punishment-in-uk/#:~:text=The%20'new%20drop'%20gallows%20were,fell%20through%20a%20trap%20door.&text=The%20'long%20drop'%20was%20introduced,the%20convict%20dying%20by%20suffocation. https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/short%20drop.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zgx94xs/revision/4 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/longdrop.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/child.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28688474 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/36/enacted https://core.ac.uk/reader/74371960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Smith_(infanticide)#:~:text=Rebecca%20Smith%20(n%C3%A9e%20Prior%3B%20chr,publicly%20hanged%20at%20Devizes%2C%20Wiltshire. https://www.facebook.com/WiltshireMuseum/photos/tale-of-a-famous-devizes-executionthe-story-of-rebecca-smithpainting-from-the-co/10157672868944195/?locale=sr_RS&paipv=0&eav=AfYMzJaRmcd9_i1P14hgIX8I1VVyMYds1IZfwZ6oHYUG_cJbgG4fhUolv7HBDGODfMg&_rdr https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Rebecca%20Smith.html https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1931/jun/18/sentence-of-death-expectant-mothers-bill https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/21-22/24/enacted#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20prohibit%20the,for%20other%20purposes%20connected%20therewith. https://first100years.org.uk/abolishing-juries-of-matrons/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleading_the_belly https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Ann-Cotton Daily Mirror - Thursday 18 March 1982 Daily Mirror - Tuesday 12 July 1983 Western Daily Press - Wednesday 12 August 1964 Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) - Saturday 11 July 1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Alan_West https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-28687221 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/allen_evans.html https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/story-preston-men-who-were-18513267 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/britain-last-executions-hanging-criminals-low-key https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/10/the-last-executions/ https://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/evans-gwynne.htm https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/allen-peter-anthony.htm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722104/Cell-doors-flung-open-12-pace-walk-hanged-Last-moments-final-two-men-executed-Britain-remembered-50-years-on.html https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/the-two-men-who-walked-to-their-death-and-into-the-history-books-1836919 https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2015/nov/09/death-penalty-uk-fifty-years-1965-capital-punishment https://jaquo.com/last-men-hanged-britain/ https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/16431793.cumbria-murderer-was-victim-of-miscarriage-of-justice/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42370943 https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1692238/capital-punishment-gwynne-evans-peter-allen-spt https://www.lancs.live/news/local-news/cumbrian-murder-led-last-executions-18250260 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/son-last-man-hanged-britain-7080170 https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-walton-prison-saw-last-7561447 https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/a-gruesome-anniversary-in-manchester/ https://www.m-sport.co.uk/dovenby-hall-history https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1914-1945/mental-deficiency-between-the-wars/ https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap28653/stoke-park-colony https://beyondthepoint.co.uk/a-history-of-mental-asylums/ https://www.ft.com/content/754d511d-2c08-437d-b3a9-c09e2c69533d -
During the 1940's and 1950s there were a series of cases that involved children in the vicinity of Wigan, some of which remain unsolved to this day. While another perpetrated by Norman Green would be the case that became Albert Pierrepoint's final execution. Join me as I explore the solved and unsolved cases, and what led to the most recognisable executioner in British history hanging up his noose.
Resources Pierrepoint: Executioner an autobiography Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 17 June 1942 Bradford Observer - Wednesday 17 June 1942 Liverpool Evening Express - Thursday 18 June 1942 Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 19 June 1942 The Scotsman - Wednesday 01 September 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 01 September 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 31 August 1954 The Scotsman - Thursday 14 October 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 08 September 1954 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 28 August 1954 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 01 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Monday 06 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 07 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 14 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 09 November 1954 Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 22 September 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Saturday 28 August 1954 Manchester Evening News - Friday 17 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 08 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Monday 30 August 1954 https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=31073&gallery=Scholes&offset=0 Belfast News-Letter - Monday 21 June 1954 Daily Mirror - Monday 21 June 1954 Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 21 June 1954 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 19 July 1954 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 21 June 1954 Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 20 June 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Friday 01 October 1954 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 01 October 1954 Daily News (London) - Monday 21 June 1954 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 19 July 1954 Manchester Evening News - Monday 21 June 1954 https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6026743.the-madman-who-was-never-caught/ Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 21 November 1945 Daily Dispatch (Manchester) - Thursday 22 November 1945 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 20 December 1945 Daily Mirror - Wednesday 24 October 1945 Manchester Evening News - Monday 21 August 1944 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 19 December 1944 Manchester Evening News - Monday 28 August 1944 Daily Herald - Wednesday 14 April 1948 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 23 August 1944 Daily Mirror - Tuesday 22 August 1944 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 12 September 1944 Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 19 September 1944 Manchester Evening News - Friday 01 September 1944 Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 24 October 1945 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 06 September 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Sheila_Fox https://historicbolton.yolasite.com/sheila-fox.php https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/06/helencarter http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=2513&termRef=Sheila%20Fox https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/732dfuk.html https://medium.com/@yasminscherrer/she-wanted-to-walk-back-home-from-school-a8ecd9a24638 https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/search-continues-60-years-on-1119203 https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6022930.the-last-time-i-saw-sheila-alive/ https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6025598.heartbreak-missing-sheilas-sister/ https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6026474.she-left-the-classroom-and-was-never-seen-again/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-51530/Garden-dig-body-girl-vanished-57-years-ago.html https://www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/unsolved-mysteries-the-girl-in-the-green-mac/ https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30014732.html https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-dig-goes-on-in-hunt-for-missing-1186258 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727259/The-people-vanished-without-trace-Anguish-unsolved-missing-persons-cases.html Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 13 April 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 11 July 1955 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 16 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 12 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 14 April 1955 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 12 April 1955 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=5.0&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&b=1 Maps Lower Ince 1907, Published: 1908 (OS 25 inch 1892-1914) Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 27 July 1955 Western Mail - Friday 01 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 07 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 30 June 1955 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 12 April 1955 (photo of Back Hope Street) Liverpool Echo - Thursday 14 April 1955 Daily Herald - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Monday 04 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 14 May 1955 Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 06 July 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 27 July 1955 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 06 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 02 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Monday 27 June 1955 Liverpool Echo - Thursday 12 May 1955 Leicester Evening Mail - Thursday 30 June 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 15 April 1955 Manchester Evening News - Friday 23 April 1948 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 03 June 1948 Manchester Evening News - Saturday 17 April 1948 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 08 February 1949 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 08 February 1949 https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6019700.murdered-boys-friend-recalls-stabbing-horror/ https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6026743.the-madman-who-was-never-caught/ http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=876&termRef=Norman%20William%20Green Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 11 May 1955 Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Thursday 07 July 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Friday 29 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 16 April 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 07 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 14 May 1955 Manchester Evening News - Friday 22 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 11 May 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 06 May 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 27 July 1955 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 16 April 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 11 July 1955 Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 02 July 1955 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 06 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 11 May 1955 -
Mangler du episoder?
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Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, but her story was not a simple one, with it being likely that experiences she had throughout her life may have contributed towards her actions on Easter Sunday 1955.
Join me for this the third part of the Ruth Ellis story.
Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/newsid_2525000/2525427.stm#:~:text=The%20strike%20has%20kept%20newspapers,which%20is%20printed%20in%20Manchester.
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091 https://abortionrights.org.uk/history-of-abortion-law-in-the-uk/ https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion/examining-the-arguments-what-about-backstreet-abortions https://www.historyandpolicy.org/docs/abortion_act_1967.pdf https://peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/birth-control-on-the-nhs/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141218-birth-control-pill-contraception-science-medicine-ngbooktalk#:~:text=In%20the%201940s%2C%20available%20birth,and%20intrauterine%20devices%20(IUDs).&text=When%20Pincus%20and%20Rock%20first,obtaining%20women%20for%20their%20trials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/sep/12/health.medicineandhealth#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20the,ages%20of%2016%20and%2049. https://youtu.be/Wo1tVpaNxmw https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16903503.ruth-ellis-basingstoke-connection-last-woman-executed-uk/ https://www.churchannulment.com/blog/a-guide-to-adultery-and-catholic-annulment#:~:text=Wondering%20whether%20you%20can%20get%20a%20Catholic%20annulment%20after%20you,as%20if%20it%20never%20existed. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20encephalitis%20lethargica,a%20year%20after%20the%20illness. https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/#:~:text=Modern%20reports%20suggest%20that%20perhaps,results%20in%20serious%20neurological%20disability. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-93.html#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20an%20estimated%20six,%2D1918%2C%20Bruges%3A%E2%80%A6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/refugees-tracing-the-belgian-refugees#:~:text=The%20largest%20influx%20of%20refugees,the%20conflict%20after%20Germany%20invaded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/ruth-ellis-files-bbc-documentary-murder-case-cant-let-go https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/ruth-ellis-the-model-who-smiled-at-her-executioner-1.3690704 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ruth-ellis-tragedy-little-boy-27590506 https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ruth-ellis-hanging-capital-punishment-death-penalty/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-woman-hanged-for-murder-in-great-britain -
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, but her story was not a simple one, with it being likely that experiences she had throughout her life may have contributed towards her actions on Easter Sunday 1955.
Join me for this the second part of the Ruth Ellis story.
Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091 https://abortionrights.org.uk/history-of-abortion-law-in-the-uk/ https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion/examining-the-arguments-what-about-backstreet-abortions https://www.historyandpolicy.org/docs/abortion_act_1967.pdf https://peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/birth-control-on-the-nhs/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141218-birth-control-pill-contraception-science-medicine-ngbooktalk#:~:text=In%20the%201940s%2C%20available%20birth,and%20intrauterine%20devices%20(IUDs).&text=When%20Pincus%20and%20Rock%20first,obtaining%20women%20for%20their%20trials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/sep/12/health.medicineandhealth#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20the,ages%20of%2016%20and%2049. https://youtu.be/Wo1tVpaNxmw https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16903503.ruth-ellis-basingstoke-connection-last-woman-executed-uk/ https://www.churchannulment.com/blog/a-guide-to-adultery-and-catholic-annulment#:~:text=Wondering%20whether%20you%20can%20get%20a%20Catholic%20annulment%20after%20you,as%20if%20it%20never%20existed. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20encephalitis%20lethargica,a%20year%20after%20the%20illness. https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/#:~:text=Modern%20reports%20suggest%20that%20perhaps,results%20in%20serious%20neurological%20disability. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-93.html#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20an%20estimated%20six,%2D1918%2C%20Bruges%3A%E2%80%A6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/refugees-tracing-the-belgian-refugees#:~:text=The%20largest%20influx%20of%20refugees,the%20conflict%20after%20Germany%20invaded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/ruth-ellis-files-bbc-documentary-murder-case-cant-let-go https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/ruth-ellis-the-model-who-smiled-at-her-executioner-1.3690704 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ruth-ellis-tragedy-little-boy-27590506 https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ruth-ellis-hanging-capital-punishment-death-penalty/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-woman-hanged-for-murder-in-great-britain -
Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, but her story was not a simple one, with it being likely that experiences she had throughout her life may have contributed towards her actions on Easter Sunday 1955.
Join me for this the first part of the Ruth Ellis story.
Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091 https://abortionrights.org.uk/history-of-abortion-law-in-the-uk/ https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion/examining-the-arguments-what-about-backstreet-abortions https://www.historyandpolicy.org/docs/abortion_act_1967.pdf https://peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/birth-control-on-the-nhs/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141218-birth-control-pill-contraception-science-medicine-ngbooktalk#:~:text=In%20the%201940s%2C%20available%20birth,and%20intrauterine%20devices%20(IUDs).&text=When%20Pincus%20and%20Rock%20first,obtaining%20women%20for%20their%20trials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/sep/12/health.medicineandhealth#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20the,ages%20of%2016%20and%2049. https://youtu.be/Wo1tVpaNxmw https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16903503.ruth-ellis-basingstoke-connection-last-woman-executed-uk/ https://www.churchannulment.com/blog/a-guide-to-adultery-and-catholic-annulment#:~:text=Wondering%20whether%20you%20can%20get%20a%20Catholic%20annulment%20after%20you,as%20if%20it%20never%20existed. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20encephalitis%20lethargica,a%20year%20after%20the%20illness. https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/#:~:text=Modern%20reports%20suggest%20that%20perhaps,results%20in%20serious%20neurological%20disability. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-93.html#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20an%20estimated%20six,%2D1918%2C%20Bruges%3A%E2%80%A6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/refugees-tracing-the-belgian-refugees#:~:text=The%20largest%20influx%20of%20refugees,the%20conflict%20after%20Germany%20invaded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/ruth-ellis-files-bbc-documentary-murder-case-cant-let-go https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/ruth-ellis-the-model-who-smiled-at-her-executioner-1.3690704 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ruth-ellis-tragedy-little-boy-27590506 https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ruth-ellis-hanging-capital-punishment-death-penalty/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-woman-hanged-for-murder-in-great-britain -
Styllou Christofi was the penultimate woman to hang in England, although she received little media interest, despite the fact that her crime was arguable more brutal, and sensational than that committed by Ruth Ellis the final woman to go to the noose, six months later. Join me as I delve into the case of Styllou Christofi, a true mother in law from hell.
Resources
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry Dundee Courier - Wednesday 15 December 1954 The Scotsman - Thursday 16 December 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Friday 13 August 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Thursday 26 August 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Wednesday 04 August 1954 The Scotsman - Tuesday 14 December 1954 Dundee Courier - Wednesday 25 August 1954 Evening Despatch - Thursday 28 October 1954 https://cyprusscene.com/2015/08/11/cypriot-culture-and-traditions-of-the-past-by-ismail-veli/ https://www.roughguides.com/cyprus/culture-etiquette/ https://sammiswinton.com/2021/06/09/what-you-should-know-about-cypriot-culture-norms-traditions/ https://www.justaboutcyprus.com/traditions/?utm_content=cmp-true https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6066/1/416825.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styllou_Christofi https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/bbc-the-story-of-styllou-christofi-the-penultimate-woman-to-be-executed-in-the-uk/ https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/british-judge-rules-on-styllou-s-conviction https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/christofi.html https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/christofi-styllou.htm https://www.cyprusalive.com/en/the-story-of-styllou-the-cypriot-murderer-which-as-a-bride-killed-her-mother-in-law-and-as-a-mother-in-law-killed-her-daughter-in-law https://lifestylelibre.blogspot.com/2021/05/murderous-mother-in-law-case-of-styllou.html https://en.famagusta.news/lifestyle/tileorasi/stylloy-christofi-i-kypria-fonissa-se-ntokimanter-toy-bbc-me-protovoylia-toy-eggonoy-tis/ https://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crimearticle/murdering-mother-in-law-goes-to-the-gallows/ https://gizmodo.com/the-case-of-the-killer-who-really-really-hated-her-in-1721361474 https://thecinemaholic.com/is-styllou-pantopiou-christofi-dead-or-alive/ The_Bewildered_Peasant_Family_Migration.pdf The bewildered peasant: family, migration and murder in the Greek Cypriot community in London By Panikos Panayi De Montfort University, United Kingdom Andrekos Varnava Flinders University, Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wuppertal_in_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Silverman Daily Mirror - Thursday 28 October 1954 https://www.ojpas.com/2011_2_2_42-fulltext.html#:~:text=Non%20systematized%20delusion%20extends%20into,a%20plan%20to%20harm%20them. Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 May 1955 The Scotsman - Wednesday 06 July 1955 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/lloyd.html http://www.blackkalendar.nl/c/16447/Sarah%20Lloyd Newcastle Journal - Saturday 07 May 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 10 February 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Bradford Observer - Saturday 12 March 1955 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 08 February 1955 Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 10 February 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 05 May 1955 The Scotsman - Saturday 07 May 1955 Bradford Observer - Friday 06 May 1955 Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 22 June 1955 -
17 years after Albert Pierrepoint assisted his Uncle Tom in the execution of Dorothea Waddingham he would act as the main executioner for Louisa May Merrifield another woman whose chosen weapon was poison.
Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
Bradford Observer - Tuesday 21 July 1953 Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 22 July 1953 Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 04 August 1953 Shields Daily News- Friday 04 September 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 27 April 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Saturday 25 July 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 20 July 1953 Yorkshire Evening Post - Thursday 06 August 1953 The Scotsman - Wednesday 12 August 1953 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 27 July 1953 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 25 April 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 22 April 1953 Liverpool Echo - Thursday 30 April 1953 Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 15 May 1953 Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 23 April 1953 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 16 May 1953 Daily News (London) - Monday 20 April 1953 Bradford Observer - Monday 20 April 1953 Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 20 April 1953 Dundee Courier - Monday 20 April 1953 Daily Record - Monday 20 April 1953 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 20 April 1953
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Merrifield https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/merrifield-louisa.htm https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-poisoner-drunkard-who-murdered-17079890 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/merrifield.html https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/spoonful-jam-rat-poison-story-25417279 https://www.personsunknown.net/p/the-strange-case-of-louisa-merrifield https://beyondtheblackpool.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/louisa-may-merrifield/ https://blackpoolcrime.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/mrs-merrifield-and-mrs-ricketts-1953/ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Louisa_May_Merrifield https://crimescribe.com/2018/09/18/on-this-day-in-1953-louisa-merrifield-the-blackpool-poisoner/comment-page-1/ -
In today’s episode I delve into the part Albert Pierrepoint played after the war crime tribunals which occured at the close of the Second World War, and the 1948 execution of a transgender man, whose identity and sexuality may have contributed to them not having their sentence commuted to life in prison.
Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Monday 30 August 1948 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Daily Mirror - Friday 24 September 1948 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 23 September 1948 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 12 January 1949 https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6066/1/416825.pdf DEAD WOMAN WALKING: EXECUTED WOMEN IN ENGLAND & WALES 1900-1955 Anette Ballinger Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 1997 https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/allen-margaret.htm https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/margaret-bill-allen-menopausal-man-25743029 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/allen.html https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/16165677.odd-man-bus-conductor-maggie-allen-really-commit-murder/ https://murderworld771665864.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/the-last-five-women-to-be-hanged-in-britain-no-4-margaret-bill-allen/ https://www.executedtoday.com/2018/01/12/1949-margaret-bill-allen-transgender/ https://www.rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/new-book-places-question-marks-14519762 https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2020/10/margaretbill-wanted-a-smoke.html Liverpool Echo - Thursday 02 September 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 04 January 1949 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 12 January 1949 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 13 January 1949 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 18 September 1948 Western Morning News - Monday 30 August 1948 Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Dundee Courier - Monday 30 August 1948 Yorkshire Evening Post - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Daily News (London) - Monday 30 August 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 18 September 1948 Daily Mirror - Thursday 02 September 1948 Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday 23 September 1948 Gloucester Citizen - Monday 30 August 1948 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 30 August 1948 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 31 August 1948 https://murderworld771665864.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/the-last-five-women-to-be-hanged-in-britain-no-4-margaret-bill-allen/
http://www.bergenbelsen.co.uk/pages/trial/TrialContents/TrialContents.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belsen_trial -
In today’s episode I cover the case of the woman, whose execution would be the first female hanging Albert would witness while working as an assistant for his uncle, and lead executioner, Thomas Pierrepoint.
Resources
Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 30 January 1936 Daily Mirror - Saturday 18 January 1936 Daily Herald - Thursday 30 January 1936 Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 07 February 1936 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1449357&resourceID=19191 https://www.workhouses.org.uk/BurtonUponTrent/ http://www.burton-on-trent.org.uk/belvedere-road-workhouse-general-history Daily News (London) - Wednesday 26 February 1936 Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 29 March 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 28 February 1936 Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 04 March 1936 Western Mail - Tuesday 31 March 1936 Gloucestershire Echo - Monday 30 March 1936 Daily News (London) - Monday 24 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 28 February 1936 Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 22 September 1936 Daily News (London) - Thursday 20 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 07 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Thursday 16 April 1936 Dundee Courier - Friday 10 April 1936 Daily News (London) - Thursday 23 January 1936 Cornishman - Thursday 06 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 14 February 1936 Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 13 April 1936 Daily Herald - Friday 14 February 1936 Illustrated Police News - Thursday 24 February 1938
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
https://juletrwsll.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/the-lover-the-nurse-and-the-thief-incredible-story-of-three-criminals-hanged-for-murder-at-birmingham-prison/ https://institutionalhistory.com/homepage/prisons/major-prisons/hmp-birmingham-or-birmingham-county-gaol/ https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-10120449.html https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ANGEL+OF+DEATH%3B+Revealed+after+70+years+...+the+Shipman-like+killings...-a0116126885 https://thecinemaholic.com/louisa-baguley-and-ada-baguley-murders-how-did-dorothea-waddingham-die/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/waddingham-dorothea-1899-1936 https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tragic-story-last-woman-hanged-13992671 https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/waddingham-dorothea.htm https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/local-news/burton-nurse-murder-executed-892388 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/wadding.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Waddingham#:~:text=Despite%20a%20recommendation%20of%20mercy,by%20his%20nephew%20Albert%20Pierrepoint. -
Join me in this episode as I delve into the capture, confessions and conviction of John Christie.
resource
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/european-history/austrian-hungarian-empire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikanischer_Schutzbund https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-36906504 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817312/ http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/bad-voslau.htm https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/christies-life-in-halifax/ http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm https://youtu.be/7wBIU_dXs_A https://youtu.be/Za1C7_7n4ko https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christie-john.htm https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/a-timeline-of-john-christies-crimes-and-their-discovery-and-the-bits-rillington-place-missed-out/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/timothy-evans-john-christie https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/plymouth-girl-murdered-sick-necrophile-2336843 Frenzy Neil Root The Murders myths and reality of 10 Rillington place. John L Curnow https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/31/christie-and-evans/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(serial_killer)s -
After the death of his wife, Ethel, John Chrsite claimed that “after she had gone, the way was clear for me to fulfil my destiny.”
in the proceeding weeks Christie would go on to commit three murders, but before they were his victims they were Rita Nelson, Kathleen Maloney and Hectorina Mclennan each had her own story which I explore in this episode.
Resources
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/how-killers-trail-of-death-led-to-ulster/28076551.html https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-true-crime-podcast-55-the-other-side-of-10-rillington-place-part-eight-rita-elizabeth-nelson https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/christie/trial_10.html https://youtu.be/_I3aTSUWqHE?si=_loDgw9670LVpOKR the sinking of the Princess Victoria
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/european-history/austrian-hungarian-empire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikanischer_Schutzbund https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-36906504 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817312/ http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/bad-voslau.htm https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/christies-life-in-halifax/ http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm https://youtu.be/7wBIU_dXs_A https://youtu.be/Za1C7_7n4ko https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christie-john.htm https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/a-timeline-of-john-christies-crimes-and-their-discovery-and-the-bits-rillington-place-missed-out/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/timothy-evans-john-christie https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/plymouth-girl-murdered-sick-necrophile-2336843 Frenzy Neil Root The Murders myths and reality of 10 Rillington place. John L Curnow https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/31/christie-and-evans/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(serial_killer) -
At the conclusion of Timothy Evans' trial, his mother confronted John Christie, branding him a murderer to which his wife Ethel responded “Don’t you dare call my husband a murderer, he’s a good man.”
I wonder how much Ethel truly believed these words as she spoke them, whether deep down she had a gnawing suspicion that something was wrong, that just yards from her bedroom window lay the bodies of two women, and that within 3 years of Evans’ trial she too would die at her husbands hand.
Join me I as I explore the life of Ethel Christie.
Resources
http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm UK Census
John Christie of Rillington Place - Biography of a Serial Killer by Jonathan Oates
Murder with a Difference - Molly Lefebure (1958) Find My Past Sheffield Indexers Sheffield History Forum Daily Mail (London); Jul 9, 1998; p. 32 Sunderland Echo dated 22rd April 1953 and 22nd June 1953 https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/742961/rillington-place-ethel-christie-know-about-john-murders-bbc-2016 https://www.crimetraveller.org/2022/02/10-rillington-place/ https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12316289/rillington-place-murders-brother-claims-real-killer/ https://www.murdermap.co.uk/historical-murders/ten-rillington-place-the-home-of-john-reginald-christie/ https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/John_Christie_(murderer)#Murder_of_Ethel_Christie https://razs-midnight-macabre.com/2022/08/29/real-life-horror-john-christie/ -
in the second part of this 5 part miniseries, covering the crimes of John Christie I cover the stories of Ruth Fuerst and Muriel Eddy who died at the hands of the infamous serial killer.
episode resources
https://www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/view-item?i=209962&WINID=1688988551430 https://chrissyhamlin.blogspot.com/2017/09/george-lansbury-and-history-of-hutton.html https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/visit-canning-town-east-london/ https://londonsroyaldocks.com/centenary-1917-silvertown-explosion-happened/ https://heritagecalling.com/2017/01/19/the-silvertown-tragedy-explosion-on-the-home-front/ https://www.iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/19/20-may-1918 https://greatwarlondon.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/riots-and-hooligans/ https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/poplar-upper-north-street-school-disaster/ https://timedetectives.blog/2018/07/05/terror-from-the-skys-in-the-20th-century/ -
Join me for this first part of a 5 part miniseries, in which I cover the life and crimes of John Reginald Halliday Christie who would ultimately met his end at the hands of Albert Pierrepoint. In this episode I look into the early life and crimes of Christie.
Resources
John Christie of Rillington Place: Biography of a serial killer by Johnathan Oates
Frenzy by Neil Root
The Murders myths and reality of 10 Rillington place. byJohn L Curnow
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/european-history/austrian-hungarian-empire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikanischer_Schutzbund https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-36906504 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817312/ http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/bad-voslau.htm https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/christies-life-in-halifax/ http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm https://youtu.be/7wBIU_dXs_A https://youtu.be/Za1C7_7n4ko https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christie-john.htm https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/a-timeline-of-john-christies-crimes-and-their-discovery-and-the-bits-rillington-place-missed-out/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/timothy-evans-john-christie https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/plymouth-girl-murdered-sick-necrophile-2336843 https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/31/christie-and-evans/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(serial_killer) -
At the time of his execution few had sympathy for Timothy Evans’ plight, after all he had been charged with the murders of his pregnant wife and 13 month old daughter. Add to this reports that he had been verbally and physically abusive to his wife throughout their marriage, on the surface he appeared to be the type of person the death penalty had been designed for, in that it removed a violent and dangerous individual who posed a threat to the public. However three years after his execution, new revelations would call into question whether he should have gone to the noose.
Join me as I delve into the story of Timothy Evans, and the murders of his wife Beryl and daughterGeraldine.
Episode resources
John Christie of Rillington Place: Biography of a serial killer by Johnathan Oates
Frenzy by Neil Root
The Murders myths and reality of 10 Rillington place. byJohn L Curnow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_Merthyr_Tydfil http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/MountPleasant.htm https://www.merthyr-history.com/?tag=merthyr-vale https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1953/jul/29/evans-case-report-of-inquiry https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18636293.brother-murdered-beryl-evans-reveals-story-inside-rillington-place/ https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/arts-and-culture/books/west-sussex-man-reveals-truth-about-his-sisters-murder-in-10-rillington-place-2959838 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/beryl-susanna-thorley-24-1dk871q https://www.10-rillington-place.co.uk/the-principal-characters/ https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-true-crime-podcast-50-the-other-side-of-10-rillington-place-part-three-beryl-susanna-evans https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/timothy-evans-rillington-place-murder-18051253 https://medium.com/@andrewpaulshakespeare/timothy-evans-an-innocent-man-hanged-for-murder-he-did-not-commit-8418b336dba4 https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2021/09/crime-of-the-century-the-case-of-timothy-evans/ https://www.southwales.ac.uk/research/research-news/criminologist-explores-life-trial-and-execution-timothy-evans/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/cdc56160-91eb-366d-ae0e-5d9c5a676fe2 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1961/jun/15/timothy-john-evans https://allthatsinteresting.com/timothy-evans-john-christie https://owlcation.com/humanities/Timothy-Evans-Wrongfully-Executed https://georgepallas.com/blog/2021/07/timothy-evans/ https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/timothy-evans-45501.php https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/rillington-place-the-tragic-real-life-story-of-the-trial-of-timothy-evans/ https://flashbak.com/christie-done-it-the-last-words-trial-and-official-murder-of-timothy-evans-in-1950-17935/ https://www.buggedspace.com/timothy-evans/ https://thecrimewire.com/institutional/Timothy-Evans-Wrongfully-Executed https://headstuff.org/culture/history/timothy-evans-convicted-killer/ https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/opinion/leader/4650878.righting-wrongs/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rillington-place-murders-brother-victim-22469318 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 January 1950 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 14 January 1950 Leicester Evening Mail - Thursday 15 December 1949 Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 04 December 1949 Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 15 July 1953 Bradford Observer - Friday 16 October 1953 Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 15 October 1953 Shields Daily News - Friday 26 June 1953 The Scotsman - Friday 13 January 1950 The Scotsman - Wednesday 08 March 1950 Shields Daily News - Friday 06 November 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Saturday 10 June 1961 https://cadw.gov.wales/sites/default/files/2019-05/Merthyr%20Tydfil-%20Understanding%20Urban%20Character_1.pdf -
During what Albert Pierrepoint would refer to as the “stormiest period of my life.” a number of key trials, and an inquiry into the validity of the death penalty would impact the increaing support for its abolition.
In this episode I will explore a case that bacame known as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in English law. When 19 year old Derek Bentley was hanged for the murder of PC Sidney Miles, despite the fact that Derek had not fired the fatal shot.
resources
Executioner: Pierrepoint
https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/joint-enterprise-debate-pack.pdf http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/http:/www.nickelinthemachine.com/2010/02/sample-post.html/blackfriars-road/ https://nelsonsquare.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/blog-post-title-3/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/71/a2029871.shtml http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/BristolKingswoodRfy/ How FOUR words got this man HANGED | The Case of Derek Bentley | Well, I Never https://youtu.be/n0Utx75Hnqs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley,_London Derry Journal - Monday 03 November 1952 Shields Daily News - Monday 17 November 1952 Bradford Observer - Tuesday 18 November 1952 Western Mail - Tuesday 18 November 1952 Bradford Observer - Friday 07 November 1952 Daily Herald - Wednesday 05 November 1952 Daily Record - Friday 07 November 1952 Croydon Times - Saturday 08 November 1952 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/newsid_3393000/3393807.stm https://www.derekbentley.com/ https://www.derekbentley.com/chron_crime.html https://www.derekbentley.com/db_stmt.html https://nswbar.asn.au/docs/webdocs/BN03_2016_Bentley.pdf https://www.thejusticegap.com/a-victim-of-british-injustice-derek-bentley-remembered/ https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/history/let-him-it-bristol-connection-7412084 https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/crime-and-punishment-in-britain/derek-bentley-case/ https://daily.jstor.org/sentenced-to-death-and-other-tales-from-the-dark-side-of-language/ https://www.barrybaines.co.uk/derek-bentley-miscarriage-of-justice/ https://www.lawteacher.net/cases/r-v-craig-and-bentley.php https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1525505017304833 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1953/jan/28/fromthearchive Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 11 December 1952 Dundee Courier - Wednesday 28 January 1953 Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 20 July 1998 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 02 October 1992 Sunday Independent (Dublin) - Sunday 06 October 1991 Shields Daily News - Saturday 03 August 1957 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 03 November 1997 Shields Daily News - Tuesday 15 September 1953 Shields Daily News - Thursday 22 January 1953 Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 14 January 1953 Sunday Mirror - Sunday 04 February 1990 Daily Record - Friday 12 December 1952 Dundee Courier - Wednesday 29 January 1992 Liverpool Echo - Thursday 01 October 1992 Croydon Times - Friday 03 December 1954 Croydon Times - Friday 12 February 1954 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 02 November 1991 Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 31 July 1998 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6522705/sidney-miles https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9835248.book-retells-controversial-death-of-croydon-copper/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072819/bio https://www.edwardianteddyboy.com/page7.html https://learninglink.oup.com/static/5c0e79ef50eddf00160f35ad/casebook_45.htm http://netk.net.au/UK/Bentley.asp -
John George Haigh would claim the lives of 6 individuals, with his disposal method earning him the monika of "The Acid Bath Killer" his belief he had committed the perfect murders would however lead him to his death at the hands of Albert Pierrepoint.
John George Haigh references
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-acid-bath-murders/ http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Haigh.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-george-haigh https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/john-george-haigh-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-acid-bath-murderer-and-his-links-to-wakefield-2914653 https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/john-haigh-the-acid-bath-murderer https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/yorkshire-choirboy-acid-bath-killer-21591695 http://www.crawleysussex.co.uk/miscellaneous/john-george-haigh-the-acid-bath-murderer https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/sick-london-serial-killer-who-22250234 https://www.aahorsham.co.uk/content/acidbath https://www.grunge.com/474673/the-dark-story-of-john-george-haigh-the-acid-bath-killer/ https://serialkillershop.com/blogs/true-crime/john-george-haigh-timeline https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/acid-bath-murderer-whose-ghoulish-4311167 The Scotsman - Tuesday 19 July 1949 Lincolnshire Echo - Tuesday 19 July 1949 Bradford Observer - Wednesday 20 July 1949 Leicester Evening Mail - Friday 25 March 1949 Daily Mirror - Saturday 12 March 1949 Gloucester Citizen - Friday 22 July 1949 Manchester Evening News - Saturday 02 April 1949 Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday 18 July 1949 Leicester Evening Mail - Friday 29 July 1949 Londonderry Sentinel - Saturday 26 March 1949 Evening Despatch - Monday 18 July 1949 https://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/ https://outwoodcommunityvideo.co.uk/a-walk-along-ledger-lane.html https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/17788271.walk-past-clacks-family-heart-acid-bath-murder/ https://www.alittlebithuman.com/acid-bath-murderer-john-george-haigh/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Alexandre_Sarret https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/FArgus-1 https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/case-study-the-right-to-vote/the-right-to-vote/birmingham-and-the-equal-franchise/1928-equal-franchise-act/ https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-podcast-82-sulphuric-6-henrietta-helen-olivia-robarts-durand-deacon -
As the 2nd World War came to an end, Albert Pierrepoint was settling down to married life, while running a pub in Lancashire. But he was still carrying out his duties as an executioner, and in this episode I delve into what led up Neville Heath's date with the hangman's noose.
Neville heath references https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93005343/margery-aimee_brownell-gardner https://blackpoolcrime.wordpress.com/tag/margery-gardner/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zgmf2nb/revision/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_in_the_United_Kingdom https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol37/pp258-275 https://www.theministryofhistory.co.uk/historical-biographies/nevilleheath https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14585940.neville-heath-murderer-who-brought-horror-to-bournemouth-70-years-ago/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/angel-face-sadistic-killer-handsome-12583385 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296704/Neville-Heath-suave-psycho-killer-New-book-examines-turned-charming-man-savage-murderer.html https://www.truecrimeedition.com/post/neville-heath https://www.murderuk.com/neville-heath.html https://www.murdermap.co.uk/historical-murders/neville-heath-murder-margery-gardner-notting-hill/ https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/snapshotsofthepast/9543337.the-tragic-tale-of-wren-doreen-marshall-who-was-murdered-in-bournemouth/ Frenzy!: Heath, Haigh and Christie - How the Tabloid Press Turned Three Evil Serial Killers into Celebrities by Neil Root Published by Random House, 2012 Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 11 July 1946 Western Morning News - Wednesday 10 July 1946 Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Tuesday 09 July 1946 Northern Whig - Wednesday 10 July 1946 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 09 July 1946 The Scotsman - Wednesday 07 August 1946 The Scotsman - Tuesday 30 July 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 10 July 1946 Dundee Courier - Tuesday 09 July 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 16 July 1946 Nottingham Journal - Wednesday 10 July 1946 Northern Whig - Tuesday 09 July 1946 Londonderry Sentinel - Tuesday 16 July 1946 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 15 July 1946 Daily News (London) - Wednesday 10 July 1946 The People - Sunday 14 July 1946 Bradford Observer - Monday 15 July 1946 Daily News (London) - Tuesday 09 July 1946 Western Morning News - Monday 08 July 1946 https://www.opcdorset.org/BranksomeParkFiles/BranksomePark.htm https://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2016/06/a-dorset-life-for-me-17/ Daily News (London) - Tuesday 30 July 1946 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 14 October 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Friday 20 August 1937 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 08 October 1946 Bradford Observer - Wednesday 25 September 1946 Larne Times - Saturday 28 August 1937 Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 24 September 1946 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 24 September 1946 Daily Record - Thursday 15 August 1946 Bradford Observer - Thursday 15 August 1946 Northern Whig - Thursday 17 October 1946 Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 06 August 1946 Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 24 September 1946 Staffordshire Sentinel - Thursday 26 September 1946 Birmingham Daily Gazette - Friday 27 September 1946 Daily Herald - Thursday 26 September 1946 Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 22 September 1946 Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 14 August 1946 Harrow Observer - Thursday 08 August 1946 Western Gazette - Friday 01 October 1937 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 24 June 1946 Leicester Evening Mail - Friday 20 August 1937 Sunday Post - Sunday 07 July 1946 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 08 July 1946 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 October 1946 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 14 August 1946 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Wednesday 02 October 1946 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 16 October 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Friday 27 September 1946 Daily News (London) - Tuesday 25 June 1946 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 27 September 1946 Bradford Observer - Thursday 03 October 1946 Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press - Saturday 29 June 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 09 November 1937 Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 24 June 1946 Daily Mirror - Friday 12 November 1937 Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) - Wednesday 02 October 1946 Daily Herald - Friday 28 June 1946 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 26 June 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 16 October 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 13 July 1938 Dundee Courier - Tuesday 15 October 1946 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 10 October 1946 Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 22 June 1946 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 26 September 1946 https://www.mylearning.org/stories/women-at-war-the-role-of-women-during-ww2/478? https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/05/04/women-and-the-second-world-war/ https://www.forces.net/services/raf/raf-pilot-honoured-quick-thinking-during-kabul-evacuation-mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haigh#:~:text=After%20feigning%20interest%20in%20a,it%20in%20his%20next%20crime. -
Joan was a troubled 19 year old whose young life had been tainted by grief. Living a nomadic life, she believed she had found love, only for her life to be taken from her, and in the papers of the time, she even lost her name, instead becoming known as "The Wigwam Girl"
Episode resources
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sangret-august.htm https://www.haslemereherald.com/news/75-years-on-after-wigwam-murder-185746 https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/09/august-sangret/ https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/10/09/the-wigwam-murder-a-ww2-murder-case/ https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Universal_Carrier https://elsteadvillage.co.uk/elstead-military-land/ https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-4.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankley_Common#:~:text=In%20September%201942%2C%20Hankley%20Common,as%20%22the%20Wigwam%20Murder%22. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-access-to-military-areas#hankley-and-elstead-commons http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004371.pdf https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/intriguing-history-once-formidable-atlantic-19596566 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMsWMdpvQo4 Liverpool Echo - Friday 26 February 1943 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 20 January 1943 Daily News (London) - Wednesday 13 January 1943 Dundee Courier - Monday 07 December 1942 West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 04 March 1943 West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 14 January 1943 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 02 March 1943 Shields Daily News - Friday 26 February 1943 Shields Daily News - Thursday 29 April 1943 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 12 January 1943 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 03 March 1943 Belfast Telegraph - Monday 19 October 1942 Belfast Telegraph - Monday 01 March 1943 Dundee Courier - Tuesday 08 December 1942 Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 20 January 1943 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 13 January 1943 Dundee Courier - Wednesday 20 January 1943 Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 02 March 1943 Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 01 March 1943 Sunday Mirror - Sunday 18 October 1942 Daily Record - Saturday 27 February 1943 Daily Mirror - Friday 26 February 1943 Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 17 October 1942 Derby Daily Telegraph - Saturday 17 October 1942 Gloucestershire Echo - Monday 07 December 1942 Leicester Evening Mail - Thursday 25 February 1943 Kent & Sussex Courier - Friday 23 October 1942 Liverpool Evening Express - Tuesday 12 January 1943 Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 02 March 1943 Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 19 January 1943 Daily Mirror - Monday 30 November 1942 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 17 October 1942 Birmingham Mail - Tuesday 02 March 1943 Birmingham Mail - Saturday 17 October 1942 Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 12 January 1943 Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 09 January 1943 Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 12 January 1943 Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 13 September 1955 Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 05 October 1960 Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 09 March 1955 Birmingham Mail - Wednesday 24 February 1943 Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 17 April 1943 Surrey Advertiser Saturday 23 January 1943 – Daily Herald - Tuesday 13 October 1942 Daily Herald - Tuesday 09 August 1932 The Scotsman - Monday 01 August 1932 Northern Whig - Saturday 30 July 1932 Northern Whig - Thursday 28 July 1932 Dundee Courier - Saturday 30 July 1932 https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/153489
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As the Second World War began, Blackouts were enforced, with the aim of offering protection from the German bombs, but the darkness was also the perfect cover for those with ill intentions, including Gordon Cummins who would gain the moniker, The Blackout Ripper.
Gordon Cummins resources
A special thanks goes to Mike, the host of Murder Mile, whose episodes and Youtube videos aided in researching this episode.
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Shields Daily News - Friday 13 February 1942
Shields Daily News - Thursday 12 February 1942
Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 11 February 1942
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Friday 13 February 1942
Leicester Evening Mail - Friday 13 February 1942
Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Wednesday 11 February 1942
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Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 24 April 1942
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 28 April 1942
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 12 March 1942
Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 10 March 1955
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