News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Robin Coles
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Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631 In 1630s County Durham, the dead didn’t just whisper… they testified. This is the gothic true crime story of Anne Walker — a young servant girl who vanished, only for her ghost to return, describe her murder, name her killers, and send shockwaves through a superstitious society. Incredibly, the courts listened. And a conviction followed. In an era before fingerpr...
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Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631 In 1630s County Durham, the dead didn’t just whisper… they testified. This is the gothic true crime story of Anne Walker — a young servant girl who vanished, only for her ghost to return, describe her murder, name her killers, and send shockwaves through a superstitious society. Incredibly, the courts listened. And a conviction followed. In an era before fingerpr...
Six Failed Attempts to Kill His Mother-in-Law: The Spitalfields Hatchet Attack of 1874
News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
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Six Failed Attempts to Kill His Mother-in-Law: The Spitalfields Hatchet Attack of 1874
🔪 Six Failed Attempts to Kill His Mother-in-Law | The Spitalfields Hatchet Attack of 1874 News of the Times | Episode 571| 1874 Notorious November London, 1874. A quiet Spitalfields lodging. A knock at the door. And a furious son-in-law armed with a pistol, a hatchet, a knife, a shoemaker’s last, a bag of stones, and — why not — some gunpowder for flair. What followed was one of the most bizarre and dogged murder attempts ever committed in Victorian England. George French tried six separate...
News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime
Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November Episode News of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631 In 1630s County Durham, the dead didn’t just whisper… they testified. This is the gothic true crime story of Anne Walker — a young servant girl who vanished, only for her ghost to return, describe her murder, name her killers, and send shockwaves through a superstitious society. Incredibly, the courts listened. And a conviction followed. In an era before fingerpr...
