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  • 81 | Murder at the Garibaldi Inn: The True Crime Story of Constable Herbert Burrows

    81 | Murder at the Garibaldi Inn: The True Crime Story of Constable Herbert Burrows
    2025/10/24
    In November 1925, police constable Herbert Burrows was found guilty of murdering publican Ernest Laight, his wife Doris, and their young son Robert at the Garibaldi Inn in Worcester. The discovery was made by the family’s charwoman, who raised the alarm after finding the doors unlocked and the till emptied. The case exposed the calculated betrayal of trust within a small community and led to Burrows becoming the last person from Worcester to be executed by hanging.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry.co.uk
    Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 03 February 1926
    Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 February 1926
    Evening News 21 January 1987
    Evening News (London) - Tuesday 26 June 1917
    Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer - Saturday 05 December 1925
    Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 29 June 1917
    Illustrated Police News - Thursday 25 February 1926
    Dundee Courier - Friday 18 December 1925
    Kingston Times - Saturday 30 January 1926
    Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 06 December 1925, Sunday 21 February 1926
    Sunday Express - Sunday 29 November1925
    Daily News (London) - Monday 30 November 1925
    Thomson's Weekly News - Saturday 05 December 1925
    Westminster Gazette - Thursday 18 February 1926

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    "Ominous" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  • 80 | The Hednesford Ripper: Henry Thomas Gaskin

    80 | The Hednesford Ripper: Henry Thomas Gaskin
    2025/10/06
    When career criminal Henry Thomas Gaskin returned from serving with the Royal Engineers, tunnelling under the trenches of the Western Front during WWI, he was furious to discover his wife’s infidelity. He lured her to a meeting place under the pretence of discussing their marriage, and Lizzie Gaskin was never seen alive again. This true crime case remains one of the West Midlands’ most brutal, yet often forgotten, murders.

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    Sources:
    Walsall Observer - Saturday 02 June 1906
    Lichfield Mercury - Friday 27 July 1906
    Oxford Journal - Wednesday 13 March 1912
    Lichfield Mercury - Friday 15 March 1912
    Loftus Advertiser - Friday 12 April 1912
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  • 79 | History’s Deadliest Gunshot: Gavrilo Princip and the Sarajevo Assassination That Sparked WW1

    79 | History’s Deadliest Gunshot: Gavrilo Princip and the Sarajevo Assassination That Sparked WW1
    2025/09/24
    In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a young Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip fired a shot which would become the deadliest in history. With the help of co-conspirators from underground nationalist group Young Bosnia, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie during their imperial visit to the capital. Their deaths set off a domino effect of ultimatums, alliances, and mobilisations across Europe, and within weeks, the continent was engulfed in World War I (The Great War), a conflict that ultimately claimed millions of lives. Was Princip a terrorist, a freedom fighter, or simply a desperate youth caught in history’s tide? This episode explores the life, motives, and legacy of the 19-year-old whose pistol transformed Bosnia’s struggle into a global war. Few individuals have altered the course of history so suddenly, or so tragically.

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    Sources:
    Dedijer, Vladimir. The Road to Sarajevo. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.

    Butcher, Tim. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War. London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.

    Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. The Desperate Act: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. London: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

    Additional references:
    Aichelburg, Wladimir. Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und Artstetten. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1986.

    Woolf, Alex. Assassination in Sarajevo. Oxford: Heinemann, 2002.

    Ullman, Harlan. A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace. New York: Potomac Books, 2014.

    Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel. World War I: The “Great War”

    Culpin, Christopher. Making History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
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  • 78 | The Murdered Watchmaker of Norfolk: The 1853 Case of Lorenz Beha

    78 | The Murdered Watchmaker of Norfolk: The 1853 Case of Lorenz Beha
    2025/09/16
    In 2025, two pocket watches were sold at an auction, prompting renewed interest in a 170 year old East Anglia murder case. They were made by skilled German craftsman Lorenz Beha, who came to England to set up his watchmaking business in Norfolk. On a cold November day in 1853, Beha was found murdered on a quiet country road by a local labourer who happened to be one of his customers. The timepieces are not the only reminders of this forgotten piece of history, as the killer’s death mask survives as a gruesome relic of this tragic case.

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    Sources:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmr362p53o
    A Brief History of Tittleshall People Compiled by Robert Box
    Morning Advertiser - Friday 25 November 1853
    Norfolk News - Saturday 26 November 1853
    Norfolk Chronicle - Saturday 26 November 1853
    Worcester Journal - Saturday 26 November 1853
    Norwich Mercury - Saturday 25 March 1854
    Evening Mail - Monday 27 March 1854
    London Evening Standard - Monday 10 April 1854
    Lynn Museum, https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk
    Norwich Castle Museum, https://www.norwichcastle.norfolk.gov.uk
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  • 77 | Murder at Edencroft Hostel: The Tragic True Crime Story of Stephanie Baird

    77 | Murder at Edencroft Hostel: The Tragic True Crime Story of Stephanie Baird
    2025/08/21
    Just days before Christmas 1959, the Edencroft Hostel in Birmingham became the scene of a shocking murder. Stephanie Baird, 29, was brutally killed by 27-year-old Patrick Byrne, a man hiding a history of stalking and violent sexual fantasies. The case revealed the terrifying progression from secret obsession to murder, leaving investigators to confront one of Britain’s most disturbing true crimes.

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    Sources:

    Ancestry
    Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 25 February 1960
    Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 11 February 1960
    Birmingham Evening Mail Wed, 23 Mar 1960
    Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 24 March 1960
    Daily Mirror - Thursday 24 March 1960
    Daily News (London) - Friday 25 March 1960
    Newcastle Journal - Friday 25 March 1960
    Sunday Express - Sunday 27 December 1959
    Birmingham Weekly Mercury - Sunday 05 December 1999
    Birmingham Murder Hunt, British Pathe
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  • 76 | Who Killed Kent Reeks? A Murder Mystery in Wolverhampton

    76 | Who Killed Kent Reeks? A Murder Mystery in Wolverhampton
    2025/08/12
    In January 1914, the industrial town of Wolverhampton became the backdrop to a baffling mystery when 24-year-old ship’s engineer Kent Reeks was found shot dead near a disused mine shaft — 90 miles from the Liverpool hotel where he had been staying. Just days earlier, he had arrived from Canada, carrying a large sum of money and travelling in the company of a mysterious man. This little-known true crime case follows Kent’s journey from Australia to England, the cryptic clues left in his wake, and the strange trail of money, ammunition, and unanswered questions that still surround his death.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry
    UK and Ireland Incoming Passenger Lists 1914
    The Birmingham Post Mon, 26 Jan 1914
    Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 26 January 1914
    Western Daily Press - Monday 02 February 1914
    Evening Sentinel Tue, 10 Feb 1914
    Lancashire Evening Post - Tuesday 10 February 1914
    The Birmingham Post Wed, 11 Feb 1914
    Liverpool Echo - Saturday 21 March 1914
    Westerham Herald Sat, 28 Mar 1914
    Manchester Courier - Wednesday 28 January 1914
    Evening News (London) - Monday 16 February 1914
    Detroit Free Press, 5 December 1916
    Walter Reeks – Naval Architect, Yachtsman and Entrepreneur by Nicole Mays & David Payne
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  • 75 | Murder in Sovell Woods

    75 | Murder in Sovell Woods
    2025/08/02
    In 1913, the little known hamlet of Gussage St. Michael in Dorset, southwest England, became the scene of a shocking discovery when a young woman’s body was found buried in woodland. This obscure true crime case explores the lives of killer William Burton and his victim, Winifred Mitchell, and how she came to be buried in a shallow grave in one of England’s most rural counties.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry
    National Archives HO 144/1272/23900
    Daily Mirror - Monday 05 May 1913
    Daily News (London) - Wednesday 07 May 1913
    London Evening Standard - Thursday 08 May 1913
    Illustrated Police News - Thursday 15 May 1913
    Daily Mirror - Friday 16 May 1913
    Southern Times and Dorset County Herald - Saturday 21 June 1913
    Daily Mirror - Tuesday 27 May 1913
    Larne Times - Saturday 31 May 1913
    Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 04 June 1913
    Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 11 June 1913
    Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 22 June 1913
    Shields Daily News - Wednesday 25 June 1913
    Grantham Journal - Saturday 28 June 1913
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  • 74 | Murder at The Crumbles

    74 | Murder at The Crumbles
    2025/07/24
    In the summer of 1920, Irene Munro chose a solo holiday in Eastbourne, on the south-east coast of England, over joining her mother in Edinburgh. Days later, her body was found buried on the remote Crumbles beach by a family on holiday. She had been violently murdered. As police investigated, newspapers suggested she had led a double life. With the help of witnesses, detectives began to piece together what happened and who was responsible.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry
    British Newspaper Archive
    National Archives
    Newspapers.com
    Oates, Jonathan. Irene Munro and the Beach Murder of 1920
    Seaside Murders by Jonathan Goodman

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    ES_Maximum state by Ethan Sloan
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    26 分