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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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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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43:58

The Woman in Black and the Murder of Augusta Dawes |...

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2025/10/03

The Woman in Black and the Murder of Augusta Dawes | True Crime 1894News of the Times | Episode 557 | 1894🕯️ A 19th-century mystery that begins with a murder... and spirals into urban legend.In the winter of 1894, one of London’s most refined boroughs was struck by two chilling tales — one whispered behind lace curtains, the other screamed across the front pages.First: a shocking early-morning discovery near Addison Road Bridge. A woman found dead in the street — throat slashed, blood pooling on

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50:01

The Nolagh House of Horror: Ireland’s 1898 Family...

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2025/10/01

The Nolagh House of Horror: Ireland’s 1898 Family Massacre News of the Times | Episode 556 | 1898 On a bitter January night in 1898, neighbours in rural County Cavan made a grim discovery: a silent farmhouse, a smashed-in door, and a scene of almost unspeakable horror.Inside, the bodies of Mary Reilly, her daughter Mary King, and two small children lay motionless on the straw-strewn floor. Their skulls had been crushed with a heavy spade. One child had been smothered beneath its mother's

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42:20

The Scissors Murder Mystery: Unsolved Brixton Crime...

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2025/09/29

The Scissors Murder Mystery: Unsolved Brixton Crime Shocks Edwardian LondonNews of the Times | Episode 555| 1900 In May 1900, the body of Mary Waknell was discovered in a quiet Brixton basement — savagely stabbed nearly forty times, many wounds inflicted with her own sewing scissors. No forced entry. No signs of struggle. And no one was ever convicted.Was her killer a jealous husband? A man known only as “Jack”? Or one of many nighttime visitors society refused to acknowledge?In this episode of News

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58:03

The 1913 Sun Inn Pub Murders | True Crime

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2025/09/26

The 1913 Sun Inn Pub Murders | True CrimeNews of the Times | Episode 553 | 1913 In the quiet village of Bedlington, April 1913, a dispute over beer stock and a £30 bond exploded into one of Edwardian England’s most shocking pub tragedies.Publican John Vickers Amos, recently dismissed from the Sun Inn, refused to leave quietly. Within hours, two police officers lay dead, a landlady was mortally wounded, and a rifle-wielding manhunt had begun.This meticulously sourced documentary draws from 1913

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50:25

Scottish Mystery: The Bound Woman and the Pit That...

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2025/09/24

Scottish Mystery: The Bound Woman and the Pit That Hid the Truth | True Crime 1909News of the Times | Episode 552 | 1909It’s 1909 in Musselburgh, Scotland.A woman’s body—bound, sacked, and terribly decomposed—is found deep in an abandoned coal pit. Nearby: a torn necktie, broken combs, scattered shoes, and rumours of a second attack.Who was she? How did she vanish unseen? And what links a missing sailor, a jealous miner, and a fragment of newspaper dated June 11th?This new News of the Times

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40:30

The Actress Who Tried to Kill Her Mother | True Crime...

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2025/09/22

The Actress Who Tried to Kill Her Mother | True Crime 1909News of the Times | Episode 551| 1909In this astonishing Edwardian crime, a young woman named Winifred Kirk lured her own mother to a secluded country road — and attempted to end her life with a rope and a shoemaker’s knife.What began as a secret letter turned into a national scandal. Was this premeditated matricide... or a moment of madness, born of family disgrace, scandal, and emotional collapse?This gripping episode includes:Letters of

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65:24

Scotland Yard Casebook: Harold Jones – The Boy Killer...

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2025/09/19

Scotland Yard Casebook: Harold Jones – The Boy Killer Who Fooled a TownNews of the Times | Episode 550 |1920 📺 SPECIAL EXTENDED EPISODE — TWISTS, TRAGEDY & A TOWN DECEIVEDIn this gripping extra-long episode of News of the Times, we explore one of Britain’s most chilling true crime cases: the 1921 murders committed by 15-year-old Harold Jones, a boy so charming he was celebrated as a hero — after his first acquittal.But just two weeks later, another child vanished.🕯️ Discover how a small Welsh

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46:22

Strangled by a Rejected Love: The 1909 Cornwall...

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2025/09/17

Strangled by a Rejected Love: The 1909 Cornwall Murder of Emily Tredrea | True Crime 1909News of the Times | Episode 549 | 1909 In this chilling Edwardian murder case from the heart of Cornwall, 16-year-old Emily Tredrea was brutally strangled by a man who refused to be rejected. The year was 1909. The setting: the quiet village of St Erth. The witness? Her 9-year-old brother.🎙️ Join us as we unravel the tragic story of Emily’s short life, the obsessive courtship that turned deadly, and the trial

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38:16

The Shocking Murder of Harriet Farmer – Bound and...

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2025/09/15

The Shocking Murder of Harriet Farmer – Bound and Gagged Above Her Shop (1904) | True CrimeNews of the Times | Episode 548 | 1904Step into the shadows of interwar Britain as we uncover the horrifying 1921 murder of Harriet Farmer — a respectable shopkeeper found bound, gagged, and beaten to death in her modest flat above the store.Set in the quiet town of Maldon, Essex, this chilling case shocked the nation: a quiet Sunday morning, a silent shop, and upstairs — a scene of unspeakable violence

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47:24

The 1900 Beeston Murder: Mary Ann Blewitt Found Dead...

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2025/09/12

The 1900 Beeston Murder: Mary Ann Blewitt Found Dead in Her ChairNews of the Times | Episode 547 | 1900 In the summer of 1900, the quiet village of Beeston near Leeds was shaken to its core. Mary Ann Blewitt, a hardworking mill hand, was discovered dead in her own kitchen chair — her throat cut, her body left untouched for days. Her husband Charles had vanished, leaving only a shaved moustache, bloodstained boots, and whispers of a troubled past.As the manhunt spread from Leeds to Halifax, the case

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43:43

The Riviera Murderer Who Lured Women to Their Deaths...

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2025/09/10

The Riviera Murderer Who Lured Women to Their Deaths | True Crime 1902 News of the Times | Episode 546 |1902The French press once whispered his name alongside Jack the Ripper’s — but Henri Vidal was no criminal genius. Instead, this so-called “Riviera Murderer” left a trail of bloodied clothing, stolen trinkets, and shameless lies across southern France in 1902. From Marseilles to Nice, he lured vulnerable women under false names and empty promises… only to meet his downfall through sheer

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49:52

Scotland Yard Casebook: The Jealous Seamstress Who...

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2025/09/08

Scotland Yard Casebook: The Jealous Seamstress Who Stabbed Her Lover in Broad Daylight | True Crime 1902News of the Times | Episode 545 | 1902A bustling London street. A young man lies bleeding. A woman, once in love, now holds the knife.In this gripping 1902 case from the Scotland Yard Casebook, we uncover the dramatic story of a seamstress whose jealousy turned deadly — and the scandal that followed. From courtroom theatrics to a surprising twist in motive, this real-life tale of love, betrayal,

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