Case
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Date
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Circumstances |
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Armstrong, Herbert Rowse |
1922 |
Solicitor in Hay-on-Wye who poisoned his wife with arsenic. |
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Bartlett, Adelaide |
1886 |
Frenchwoman acquitted of poisoning her husband Edwin with chloroform |
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Beck, Adolf |
1904 |
Twice tried and convicted of fraud in a notorious case of mistaken
identity. |
Details |
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Bishop John (and William Thomas) |
1831 |
The Italian Boy Murder committed to supply
bodies for medical research |
Details |
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Brighton Trunk Murders |
1934 |
Dismembered bodies found in trunks, when
Tony Mancini acquitted of one case |
Details |
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Brill, John, murdered near Uxbridge |
1837 |
First case of Scotland Yard sending an
officer to assist a murder investigation out of London |
Details |
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Browne, Frederick and Kennedy, William |
1928 |
Convicted on ballistics evidence of the murder of Essex PC George
Gutteridge. |
Details |
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Burke and Hare |
1828 |
Body snatchers who provided corpses for medical examination. |
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Bush, Edwin |
1961 |
Convicted of murder of Elsie Batten, in
first UK use of Identikit |
Details |
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Carraher, Patrick |
1946 |
Convicted of killing John Gordon in a Glasgow gangland fight. |
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Casement, Sir Roger |
1916 |
Hanged for treason after being caught off Ireland with arms in a German
submarine |
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Chantrelle, Eugene |
1878 |
Frenchman who poisoned his wife, probably with opium |
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Chapman, George |
1903 |
Alias Severin Klosowski who poisoned three wives, linked with
Jack the Ripper. |
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Courvoisier, Francois |
1840 |
Manservant who murdered Lord William Russell
and provoked criticism of police. |
Details |
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Cream, Dr Neill |
1892 |
Preyed on prostitutes in Lambeth, giving them pills poisoned with
strychnine. |
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Crippen, Dr Hawley |
1910 |
Poisoned his wife, a music hall artiste and was caught on a ship bound
for Canada. |
Details |
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Davis, Eliza |
1837 |
Unsolved murder of barmaid at the Kings
Arms, near Regent's Park |
Details |
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Dickman John |
1910
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Shot John Nisbet on a train from Newcastle |
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Donald, Jeannie |
1934 |
Convicted of murder of 8-year-old Helen Priestly in Aberdeen on forensic
evidence |
Details |
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Dougal, Samuel |
1903 |
Murdered Camille Holland in the Moat Farm case involving ballistic
evidence. |
Details |
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Dunne John |
1988 |
Convicted of murder of Lorraine Benson
through DNA database |
Details |
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Dyer, Amelia |
1896 |
Baby Farming case |
Details |
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Field, Jack and Gray, William |
1920 |
Killed 17-year-old Irene Munro, a typist on holiday at the Crumbles,
Eastbourne |
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Fox, Sidney |
1920 |
Hanged for murdering his mother, apparently for the insurance money. |
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Gardiner, William |
1903 |
Church elder accused of the murder of the pregnant Rose Harsent at
Peasenhall. |
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Good, Daniel |
1842 |
Murdered Jane Good at Roehampton.
His escape led to forming detective department |
Details |
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Gould Richard |
1840 |
Admitted murder of John Templeman after he
had been acquitted. |
Details |
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Greenacre, James |
1836 |
Murder of Hannah Brown whose body was
dismembered and spread around London |
Details |
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Greenwood, Harold |
1920 |
A solicitor in Llanelly who poisoned his wife with arsenic |
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Grimwood, Eliza |
1837 |
Unsolved murder of a prostitute investigated
by Inspector Field |
Details |
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Heath, Neville |
1946 |
Impersonated military officers and murdered Margery Gardner in London,
and Doreen Marshall in Bournemouth |
Details |
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Hanratty, James |
1961 |
Convicted of the murder of Michael Gregsten
in the A6 murder. His posthumous appeal was lost on DNA evidence |
Details |
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Hessel, Dr Gottfried |
1872-3 |
German clergyman identified by witnesses as
murderer of Harriet Buswell at Great Coram Street. |
Details |
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Jack the Ripper |
1888-91 |
The Whitechapel Murders. The classic unsolved murder series. |
Details |
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Joyce, William |
1945 |
Hanged for treason for his wartime activities as ‘Lord Haw Haw’ |
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Kent, Constance |
1860 |
Murdered her 4-year-old brother, Saville in Road Hill House, Wiltshire |
Details |
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Knowles, Benjamin |
1928 |
Convicted of shooting his wife in the Gold Coast despite his wife
declaring it an accident. |
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Kray Brothers |
1969 |
Gangland related murders in London’s East End |
Details |
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Lamson, Dr George |
1882 |
Impoverished doctor who poisoned his brother-in-law with aconitine. |
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Ley, Thomas and Smith, Lawrence |
1946 |
Murdered John Mudie, a barman in Surrey in ‘The Chalkpit Murder’ |
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Mapleton, Percy LeFroy |
1881 |
First fugitive pictured in a newspaper after
a murder on the London-Brighton express |
Details |
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Maybrick, Florence |
1889 |
Poisoned her husband with combination of arsenic, strychnine and
hyoscine. |
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Melias, Robert |
1987 |
First conviction based on DNA evidence |
Details |
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Meredith, John |
1866 |
Acquitted of murdering his nephew Edward
Edwards at Duddlewick |
Details |
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Merrett, John Donald @ Chesney, Ronald |
1927 |
Tried (Not proven) of shooting his mother dead, and later killed his
wife. |
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Monson Alfred |
1893 |
A tutor involved with complex financial dealings and tried (Not proven)
for shooting a pupil, Cecil Hambrough. |
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Morrison, Stinie |
1911 |
Murdered Leon Beron whose body was found with the letter S cut on both
cheeks. |
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Müller, Franz |
1864 |
First murder on British railway and extradited from USA after a ship
chase across the Atlantic. |
Details |
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Nodder, Frederick |
1937 |
Convicted of abducting 10-year-old Mona Tinsley and later of her murder |
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Orrock, Thomas |
1882 |
Murdered PC Cole at Dalston and convicted
partly on ballistics evidence |
Details |
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Palmer, William |
1856 |
Poisoned a fellow race-goer for his winnings. First trial transferred
to London because of local feelings. |
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Payne, Roger |
1968 |
Convicted of the murder of Claire Josephs on
blood group and fibre evidence |
Details |
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Peace, Charles |
1879 |
Committed two murders in Sheffield. Caught when arrested for burglary
using false respectable identity in London. |
Details |
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Pitchfork, Colin |
1986 |
Deceived police by providing DNA sample by
proxy, and then convicted of murder. |
Details |
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Pritchard, Dr Edward |
1865 |
Glasgow doctor who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law (antimony) |
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Randall, Thomas |
1835 |
His story of firing a burglars disproved by
Henry Goddard from Bow Street. |
Details |
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Rattenbury, Alma and Stoner, George |
1935 |
George Stoner killed his employer after having an affair with his wife,
Alma. |
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Redhead, Thomas |
1841 |
Traced by Nicholas Pearce as the culprit who
murdered Mrs Jane Robinson in Eskdaleside |
Details |
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Richardson, Leonard |
1939 |
Acquitted of the murder of Pamela Coventry
where there was incomplete blood evidence |
Details |
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Richardson, Thomas |
1860 |
Linked to murder of PC Alexander McBrian in
Lincolnshire by the wadding in his shotgun |
Details |
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Rouse, Alfred Arthur |
1931 |
A bigamist who committed the Blazing Car Murder of an unidentified
victim. |
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Rush, James B |
1849 |
The ‘Killer in the Fog’ double murderer in East Anglia |
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Ruxton, Dr Buck |
1935 |
Convicted of killing his wife and maid as the result of facial
identification methods. |
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Sangret, August |
1942 |
French-Canadian who murdered Joan Wolfe in the Surrey ‘Wigwam Murder’ |
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Seddon, Frederick |
1912 |
Poisoned his lodger Eliza Barrow and made unsuccessful Masonic plea to
the trial judge. |
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Shepherds Bush Murders |
1966 |
The three police officers crewing a Q car
were murdered in a notorious police murder case |
Details |
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Slater, Oscar |
1909 |
Controversially convicted of the murder of a Miss Gilchrist in Glasgow,
and later released. |
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Smethurst, Dr Thomas |
1859 |
Poisoned his mistress with arsenic, and eventually reprieved because of
flaws in the scientific tests. |
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Smith, George Joseph |
1915 |
Convicted of the ‘Brides in the Bath’ murder. |
Details |
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Smith, Madeleine |
1858 |
Architect’s daughter from Glasgow who poisoned the lover whom her father
forbade her to see. |
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Staunton, Louis, Patrick & Elizabeth |
1877 |
Tried for murdering Harriet, Patrick Staunton’s wife by starvation and
reprieved. |
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Tessnow, Ludwig |
1903 |
First conviction using preciptin test for human blood |
Details |
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Thompson Edith, and Bywaters, Frederick |
1922 |
Murdered Edith’s husband Percy after exchanging frank love letters with
each other. |
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Thurtell and Hunt |
1824 |
Murdered William Weare after a conspiracy to cheat him of money |
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Toms, John |
1794 |
Linked to the murder of Edward Culshaw by
the paper wadding of his pistol |
Details |
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True, Ronald |
1922 |
Murdered a prostitute Olive Young in Fulham. |
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Vaquier, Jean-Pierre |
1924 |
Vain Frenchman who poisoned the husband of Mabel Jones, his mistress. |
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Veronica |
1903 |
Murders committed by the mutinous crew of the British sailing ship
Veronica |
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Wainwright, Henry |
1875 |
Murdered his mistress Harriet Lane and dismembered body. |
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Webster, Kate |
1879 |
Impersonated her employer whom she had murdered and whose body parts she
had boiled. |
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Westwood, Robert |
1839 |
Unsolved murder of Soho clockmaker
investigated by Nicholas Pearce and Charles Otway |
Details |
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Williams, John @ George McKay |
1912 |
Murder of Arthur Walls at Eastbourne in The
Hooded man case notable for ballistic evidence |
Details |
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Williams, Joseph |
1939 |
Acquitted of the murder of Walter Dinivan
despite his unusual blood group and thumb print being found at the scene |
Details |
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Wood, Robert |
1907 |
Accused of the Camden Town Murder of prostitute Emily Dimmock. First
to be acquitted after giving his own evidence. |
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