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News of the Times - Unlocking the vaults of historical crime

Welcome to News of the Times!Step into the shadowed alleyways and gaslit parlours of the 18th and 19th centuries with News of the Times — a meticulously curated journey through historical crime. Each episode draws from authentic reports and court records, bringing you the darkly fascinating tales that gripped Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain.With over 500 episodes and counting, we explore true accounts of mischief, murder, and mayhem from days gone by — all delivered with a wry nod and a

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36:24

1631Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne...

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2025/11/19

Spectral Evidence: The Chilling Case of Anne Walker’s Ghost | A Notorious November EpisodeNews of the Times | Episode 579 | 1631In 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 fingerprints or

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56:02

A Most Inconvenient Pregnancy: Class, Murder, and the...

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2025/11/17

A Most Inconvenient Pregnancy: Class, Murder, and the Doddinghurst Tragedy of 1850News of the Times | Episode 577 | 1850Step into the shadows of rural England, where a quiet field near a stile becomes the setting for a grim discovery.A young woman is found face-down in the grass. She was pregnant. And someone wanted her silence — permanent.As whispers ripple through the small 1850s community of Doddinghurst, a troubling picture emerges: a man with much to lose, a secret love affair, and the

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66:14

The Murder of Vera Page: A Case That Science Couldn't...

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2025/11/14

The Murder of Vera Page: A Case That Science Couldn't SolveNews of the Times | Episode 576 | 1931 In 1931, the disappearance of 10-year-old Vera Page sent shockwaves through Hammersmith, West London. When her body was discovered days later, concealed in a garden mere yards from her home, public outrage erupted — and police turned to their most famous forensic expert, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, to help secure a conviction.Confident in his findings, Spilsbury offered precise testimony on time of

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45:37

Murder on Wimbledon Common: The Fireside Poker...

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2025/11/12

Murder on Wimbledon Common: The Fireside Poker Killing | 1917 True CrimeNews of the Times | Episode 575 | 1917A quiet house. A brutal assault. And a killer hiding in plain sight.In November 1917, wartime London was still reeling from Zeppelin raids and rations — but nothing prepared the residents of Wimbledon Common for the horror inside Winkfield Lodge. When a maid opened the bedroom door that morning, she found her employer, Captain Edward Tighe, barely clinging to life — his skull shattered by a

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60:19

The Hay Knife Killer: Double Murder That Stunned...

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2025/11/10

The Hay Knife Killer: Double Murder That Stunned Victorian EnglandNews of the Times | Episode 574 | 1858 Welcome to News of the Times, where we delve into the darkest corners of British history. In today’s episode, we explore the chilling 1858 double murder of John and Elizabeth Bucknell — an elderly couple slain in their Somerset home under horrific circumstances. Their grandson, recently released from prison, becomes the prime suspect. Was this a desperate act of greed… or something even

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Triple Gallows at Newgate: The Shocking Crimes Behind...

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2025/11/07

Triple Gallows at Newgate: The Shocking Crimes Behind the 1896 Hanging | Scotland Yard CasebookNews of the Times | Episode 573| 1896In June 1896, a grim crowd gathered outside Newgate Prison for a rare and chilling spectacle: three men hanged side by side, their fates sealed by two of the most brutal murder cases in Victorian London.This episode dives deep into the shocking crimes that led to that triple execution:🗝️ Muswell Hill: The savage killing of 79-year-old Henry Smith, a reclusive engineer

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39:12

Too Drunk to Hang? The Brutal 1909 Murder That...

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2025/11/05

Too Drunk to Hang? The Brutal 1909 Murder That Changed British LawNews of the Times | Episode 572 |1909 In this gripping true crime episode, we head to the shadowy backstreets of Edwardian Leeds to uncover the harrowing case of Thomas Mead, a gasworker whose drunken, brutal attack on his partner Clara Howell shocked the nation — and forever altered British legal history.When Mead claimed he was “too drunk to form intent,” the courts were faced with a pressing question: can murder be excused by

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27:53

Six Failed Attempts to Kill His Mother-in-Law: The...

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2025/11/03

🔪 Six Failed Attempts to Kill His Mother-in-Law | The Spitalfields Hatchet Attack of 1874News of the Times | Episode 571| 1874Notorious NovemberLondon, 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 times to

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64:22

Found Headless on the Marshes: Scotland Yard Casebook...

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2025/10/31

Found Headless on the Marshes: Scotland Yard Casebook 1865News of the Times | Episode 570| 1865 Welcome to another chilling episode of News of the Times.In 1865, a gruesome discovery on the Plaistow Marshes stunned Victorian London: a man’s headless body, dumped in the reeds — his head buried nearby in a shallow grave. The case would soon unravel into an international mystery of betrayal, greed, and grim disposal methods, involving a heavy-set Prussian, a suspicious German companion, and two locked

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56:16

The Dundry Hill Murder: The Wedmore Brothers and the...

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2025/10/29

The Dundry Hill Murder: The Wedmore Brothers and the Death of Sarah Waterman, 1861News of the Times | Episode 569 | 1861In the winter of 1861, a savage crime shocked the quiet hills near Bristol.George and Sarah Waterman, an elderly couple known for their quiet life and kindness, were attacked in their own cottage — ambushed by two masked men. The intruders came armed, posing as a local policeman to gain entry, and what followed was a scene of unimaginable brutality.Sarah Waterman was left with her

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46:26

The Scampston Murder | The Riverbank Crime That...

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2025/10/27

The Scampston Murder | The Riverbank Crime That Shocked Edwardian England (1903) News of the Times | Episode 568 | 1903A quiet Yorkshire village. A missing maid. A borrowed revolver.When 16-year-old Annie Marshall failed to return after Sunday evensong in 1903, no one expected the tragedy that followed. Two days later, her body was found in the reeds of the River Derwent — shot twice, violated, and with her mouth stuffed full of grass.The prime suspect? A jealous young farmhand with a secret, a

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49:19

The Honeymoon Poisoning: The Chilling Case of...

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2025/10/24

The Honeymoon Poisoning: The Chilling Case of Catherine FosterNews of the Times | Episode 566 | 1846It began as a village wedding in the golden lanes of Suffolk.Three weeks later, the bride was on trial for her husband’s murder.In 1846, Catherine Foster—just 17 years old and newly married—served her childhood sweetheart a dumpling for supper. By dawn, he was dead. What followed became one of the most sensational arsenic poisoning cases in Victorian England, ending with Catherine’s public execution

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54:54

The Limehouse Mystery — The 1867 Case That Divided...

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2025/10/22

The Limehouse Mystery — The 1867 Case That Divided Victorian London News of the Times | Episode 565 | 1867 A young woman found dead.A slashed throat.And a chilling claim from her lover — that she did it to herself.But the neighbours heard something different: a scream in the night, the unmistakable cry of murder.By the time the police arrived, her body was already cold… and the timeline didn’t match his story.In this gripping case from Limehouse, 1867, we revisit the murder trial of a lighterman

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49:40

The Malthouse Murder | Wolverton’s Burning Secret (1867)

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2025/10/20

The Malthouse Murder | Wolverton’s Burning Secret (1867)News of the Times | Episode 564 |1867 Welcome to News of the Times — where true crime meets smoke, suspicion, and a suspiciously well-stacked pile of coal.In the early dawn of 1867, the villagers of Wolverton awoke to smoke curling from the local malthouse — but the scent wasn’t malted barley. Beneath the flames, they uncovered a charred horror: the half-burned body of Martha Britten, her wedding ring glinting defiantly through the soot. Her

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50:13

Sarah Chesham: The Essex Poisoner Who Changed British...

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2025/10/17

Sarah Chesham: The Essex Poisoner Who Changed British Law (1847–1851)News of the Times | Episode 563 | 1851 In the sleepy village of Clavering, Essex, two young boys died days apart — sudden, wrenching illness, no clear explanation. Locals whispered… but the law shrugged.Then a neighbour’s infant died.Then her husband.All had one visitor in common.Her name was Sarah Chesham — but to the press, she became Sally Arsenic, a domestic poisoner whose quiet kitchen rewrote the rules of Victorian

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41:28

Bayonet Madness in Batley: A Victorian Double Murder

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2025/10/15

Bayonet Madness in Batley: A Victorian Double MurderNews of the Times | Episode 1865 | 562When heartbreak met a bayonet in Batley, the result was a tragedy that shook all of Yorkshire.In August 1865, 19-year-old Eli Sykes seemed the very picture of respectability — steady, polite, a proud member of Queen Victoria’s volunteer corps. But when the young woman he loved, Hannah Brook, told him no, something inside him splintered.By nightfall, Hannah and her mother lay dying in their own doorway — stabbed

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41:23

He Slept Beside His Brother… Then Butchered Him With...

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2025/10/13

He Slept Beside His Brother… Then Butchered Him With an Axe | The 1857 Maidstone FratricideNews of the Times | Episode 561 | 1857 In March 1857, the quiet town of Maidstone was shaken by a killing so savage that even the local coroner faltered in describing it. Two brothers, one bed, one axe — and a brutal act that tore a working-class family apart.By dawn, one son was dead.The other… vanished into the woods.Was it a calculated murder years in the making — or a sudden, frenzied explosion from a

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54:17

The Paris Poisoning Scandal: Madame Tiquet's Fall...

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2025/10/10

The Paris Poisoning Scandal: Madame Tiquet's Fall from Society to the Scaffold (1699)News of the Times | Episode 560 | 16999 💀 From Drawing Rooms to the Death Sentence – The Scandal That Shook Paris 🥀In 17th-century Paris, a city alive with powdered wigs, whispered gossip, and deadly ambition, one woman’s rise and fall scandalised high society. Madame Tiquet had it all — wealth, status, and a husband she couldn’t stand. When poison entered the picture, it wasn’t just her marriage on the line…

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55:36

Arsenic, Bonnets and Betrayal: The 1869 Dudley...

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2025/10/08

Arsenic, Bonnets and Betrayal: The 1869 Dudley Poisoning of Joseph OliverNews of the Times | Episode 559 | 1869 It began, as so many Victorian poisonings did, with an ordinary cup of milk and a sudden sickness.In the quiet town of Hart’s Hill near Birmingham, Joseph Oliver — a healthy, hard‑working boilermaker — fell violently ill in the spring of 1869. Within weeks he was dead, and his young wife, Fanny Frances Oliver, was weeping at his funeral. But behind closed doors, something far darker was

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38:26

A Ghost Story Without a Ghost: The Chelsea Parlour...

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2025/10/06

A Ghost Story Without a Ghost: The Chelsea Parlour Murder of 1833News of the Times | Episode 558 | 1833 In 1833, 70‑year‑old Catherine Elms lived quietly in a tiny Chelsea flat. She was well liked, friendly, and poor, with only a few modest possessions.But one winter night she was found brutally slaughtered — her face split open by repeated blows with a sword and a hatchet, her rooms ransacked — and yet not a single thing of value was missing.And the true puzzle:Every door locked and bolted.Shutters

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