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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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00:49:47

The Putney Mystery: The Death of Ellen Matilda...

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2026/03/18

In October 1892, a young woman arrived quietly at a respectable house in Putney.Within four days she was dead.The death certificate appeared entirely straightforward — embolism, thrombosis, and chronic kidney disease. Natural causes. The body was buried, and the matter might easily have ended there.But suspicion soon began to grow.Within weeks the Home Secretary ordered the grave to be opened, and what Victorian forensic surgeons discovered during the post-mortem revealed that the medical

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00:53:24

The Cambridge Pudding Mystery: The Suspected...

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2026/03/13

Today we travel to Cambridge in the summer of 1871, where a young labourer collapsed after his morning meal and died within hours.The symptoms pointed unmistakably to poison.The chemistry insisted there was none.And between the two, a newly married wife found herself facing the full weight of public suspicion.This is the story of Henry Day — a sudden death that baffled doctors, divided neighbours, and revealed just how uncertain early forensic science could be.A case of meat pudding, mixed evidence,

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01:10:41

The Death of Ellen Warder: A Victorian Poisoning...

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2026/03/11

Tonight we travel to Brighton in the summer of 1866, where the sudden illness of a newly married woman set in motion one of the most troubling Victorian inquests of the decade.Ellen Warder’s decline was abrupt, her symptoms baffling, and every doctor who attended her agreed on one unsettling point: nothing about her illness could be explained by natural causes.But it was only when investigators began looking more closely at her husband’s past that the real unease began. For Ellen was not his first

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00:53:46

The Blue Anchor Inn Mystery | True Crime 1924

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2026/03/09

A quiet Surrey hotel. A routine morning remedy. And within minutes, a respected publican is dead on the floor in violent convulsions. When the doctor arrives, nothing makes sense: the salts taste bitter, the bottle has been mysteriously rinsed clean, and strange white crystals are scattered across the bar parlour.This is the Byfleet Poisoning of 1924 — a case that led detectives from a village inn to a French chemist’s shop, a Biarritz hotel, and finally to one of the most dramatic murder trials of

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01:05:40

The Green Bicycle Mystery: The Murder of Bella Wright...

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2026/03/06

A quiet summer evening in 1919.A country lane in Leicestershire.A young woman found beside her bicycle… and a mystery that would grip Britain for the next year.In this episode, we unravel the Green Bicycle Mystery — a case that began as a presumed cycling accident but quickly deepened into one of the most perplexing investigations of the early 20th century. A bullet overlooked for nearly a day, a vanished cyclist on a distinctive green B.S.A., and a courtroom battle led by the formidable Sir Edward

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00:46:41

The Pranzini Case: The Triple Murder on the Rue...

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2026/03/04

Today, we travel to Paris in the spring of 1887, where an elegant apartment off the Rue Montaigne became the centre of one of the most sensational investigations of the Belle Époque.A courtesan of considerable means, her trusted housekeeper, and a twelve-year-old girl were found murdered behind locked doors — no struggle, no intruder seen, and only the faintest collection of clues left behind.What followed was a case that gripped Europe: a chase across France, a courtroom overflowing with

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00:43:23

The Harvard Murder: The Disappearance of Dr George...

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2026/03/02

Today we travel back to Boston in 1849, to one of the most unsettling disappearances of the Victorian age.Dr George Parkman — a man known for his precision, his routine, and his unshakeable punctuality — leaves home one afternoon and never returns. The last place he was seen? The quiet, red-brick halls of Harvard Medical College.What follows is a mystery that gripped Boston, unsettled Harvard, and pushed the courts into the earliest days of forensic science. Locked rooms, burning furnaces, shifting

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01:01:29

The Love That Led to Family Murder: The Arsenic Death...

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2026/02/27

n 1844, the quiet town of Crewe was shaken by a crime that startled even seasoned Victorian magistrates. When Richard Gallop fell suddenly and violently ill, suspicion soon turned to the person closest to him: his young daughter, Mary.What began as a family dispute over a forbidden romance spiralled into one of the era’s most unsettling arsenic cases. Drawing entirely from surviving inquest testimony, courtroom reporting, and contemporary medical evidence, this episode traces the final days of

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00:50:52

The Finsbury Park Shooting: The Jealousy Murder of...

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2026/02/25

London, October 1880.A quiet walk in Finsbury Park ends in horror when three gunshots echo across the lake and a young woman collapses to her knees. Her name was Jane Messenger, twenty-nine years old, respectably dressed, navigating a troubled marriage and an increasingly fraught entanglement with her brother-in-law, William Herbert.What followed was one of the Victorian era’s most startling public murders — a broad-daylight shooting witnessed by families, park-goers, and off-duty officers. In this

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00:43:43

The Butcher’s Wife Mystery (1881)

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2026/02/23

In the spring of 1881, a quiet butcher’s shop in Slough became the centre of one of Victorian England’s most baffling crimes. Mrs Reville, the butcher’s wife, was found murdered in her own back room — no struggle, no witness, and barely a minute in which her killer could have acted.The shop layout offered no hidden corners. The doors were visible from her desk. Anyone entering would have been immediately seen. And yet, within this impossibly narrow window of time, an assailant struck four blows,

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01:06:12

The Warminster Poisoning: The Death of Elizabeth...

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2026/02/20

A young wife collapses in agony inside her Warminster cottage, and within minutes she is gone. Arsenic in the house, strychnine in the chemist’s shop, and whispers of fear and family tension stirred a scandal that gripped Victorian England. In this episode, we follow the final hours of Elizabeth Pearce, a 25-year-old newlywed whose sudden death in 1886 set off one of the era’s most troubling poisoning investigations.With conflicting witness accounts, uncertain forensic evidence, and a household

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00:42:50

The Arsenic Murders of Lancaster Castle: The Deaths...

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2026/02/18

The spring of 1911 brought one of Britain’s most disturbing domestic mysteries into the ancient walls of Lancaster Castle. Three members of the Bingham family died suddenly, each showing the same violent gastric symptoms. As whispers of arsenic poisoning spread, suspicion fell upon the last surviving daughter, Edith Agnes Bingham — a quiet woman already viewed by neighbours as “simple” and vulnerable.In this episode, we return to the original Edwardian newspaper reports to follow the case exactly as

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00:45:27

Accident or Murder? The Death of Mary Cremen |...

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2026/02/16

A quiet Sunday in the Liverpool suburbs took a shocking turn in 1882 when a young maid, Mary Cremen, was found shot in the scullery of a respectable Crosby home. Her employer, Arthur Golding, immediately presented himself at the police station, insisting the death was a tragic accident. But as investigators examined the revolver, questioned the household, and uncovered a tangle of jealousies and clandestine relationships, the tidy façade of middle-class respectability began to crumble.Was this truly

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01:02:51

The St Mellons Mystery: The Murder of Susan Gibbs (1874)

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2026/02/13

Step back into Victorian Wales, where quiet lanes and morning mist concealed one of the era’s most disturbing disappearances. In 1874, Susan Gibbs — a hardworking Cardiff housekeeper — travelled to St Mellons to meet her young husband, James, a butler with ambition and secrets to protect. Three weeks later, her body was discovered beneath a tangle of briars, so hidden and decomposed that even the cause of death was uncertain.What followed was a landmark investigation built not on forensics, but on

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00:55:58

The Churchill Cottage Murder: Fire, Blood & a Fatal...

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2026/02/11

In the winter of 1879, the quiet Somerset parish of Knowle St Giles was shaken by a death that seemed, at first glance, to be nothing more than a tragic household accident. Eighty-three-year-old Samuel Churchill was found burned beside his hearth, his wife insisting he had fallen into the fire during a fit.But the scene told a different story.There was blood on the walls.Defensive wounds on Samuel’s hand.A bill-hook hidden beneath a chair.And the very morning he died, Samuel had dressed in his best

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00:39:07

The Dunn Case: The Evidence That Exposed a Deadly Lie...

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2026/02/09

In 1927 County Durham, a miner calmly declared that his wife had taken her own life.But from the moment police stepped inside the cramped kitchen of 2 Lumsden Buildings, nothing about his story made sense.A rope that didn’t fit.A noose too small to pass over the victim’s head.A bed he claimed to have slept in—yet had never been touched.And the quiet, devastating testimony of a child who heard far more than any child ever should.This episode unravels the forensic evidence, contradictions, and

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00:49:06

The Meader Case: The Death of Mabel Meader & the...

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2026/02/06

The Meader Case (1922) is one of those rare British true-crime stories where everything feels uncertain: a troubled marriage, a blind ex-soldier, a fatal struggle behind a closed door — and a courtroom battle led by the legendary Sir Edward Marshall Hall.Was Mabel Meader the victim of murder?A tragic accident?Or did early 20th-century medical science misunderstand a death that hinged on a single, extraordinary detail?In this episode, we explore:• The Meaders’ strained post-war marriage• Alfred

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00:40:48

The One-Penny Wife: Starvation, Poison, and the Law...

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2026/02/04

In 1829, English law allowed for a remarkable—and troubling—possibility: a person could be condemned for murder even when the victim survived.This week we explore the case later known as The One-Penny Wife, a story in which domestic hardship, early forensic science, and a deeply unusual legal statute entwined to produce one of the strangest verdicts of the late Georgian era.Mary Jardine lived on a starvation allowance of a single penny a day. When she collapsed after drinking her morning tea, her

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01:13:17

The Ashton Love Triangle Murders: A Victorian...

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2026/02/02

A quiet Victorian street. Three sudden deaths. One woman at the centre of them all.In the spring of 1886, Turner Lane in Ashton-under-Lyne was the sort of place where neighbours knew everything — or believed they did. But when a daughter, a husband, and finally a well-liked young wife died in violent, agonising circumstances, the small community began to sense a pattern too troubling to ignore.Their suspicions would spark one of the most striking poisoning cases of the Victorian age.In this episode,

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01:05:42

The Car Murder That Stunned Britain: Alfred Rouse and...

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2026/01/30

On a cold November night in 1930, a small saloon car was found blazing on a quiet Northamptonshire lane. Inside lay the charred body of a man, burned beyond recognition. But when police traced the registration number, the supposed victim walked into a London police station — very much alive.So began one of the most extraordinary investigations of the early 20th century.Tonight, we follow the case of Alfred Rouse, the travelling salesman with a tangled private life, mounting financial pressures, and

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