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It was inevitable that George Joseph Smith would end up in jail one day. The only question was, how long would it take for his cunning crimes to be uncovered? George was a master of deception who swindled a string of lovers out of their life savings and ensured he was named as the beneficiary in the wills of his many wives. He had a curious obsession with the sea, and it was only fitting that his method of murder would also feature water…

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Coma Visions, Martin Klem Eye For Detail, Miles Avida Even If I Go, Jay Varton

Sources:
British Newspaper Archive
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Goodman, Jonathan, ‘Seaside Murders: Thirteen Classic True Crime Stories’, 1985, Allison & Busby Honeycombe, Garden, ‘Murders of the Black Museum 1870 - 1970’, 1982, Hutchinson

When Shelly Walsh dropped her kids off at her dad’s on the evening of 30th June 2008, she had no idea it would be the last time she would ever see her son, daughter, and mother alive. What made an ordinary, loving grandfather in New South Wales, Australia, turn into a mass murderer overnight, killing his entire family without warning?

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"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:

Alexander, H, Emerson, D, and Kennedy, L, ‘Man arrested after axe murders’, June 2008, The Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/man-arrested-after-axe-murders-20080630-2zfj.html Flanagan, Padraic, ‘Viking fanatic kills lover then smothers son, 4’, January 2009, Express, https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/82051/Viking-fanatic-kills-lover-then-smothers-his-son-4 Hill, Ben, ‘Serial killer, 79, earns another life sentence for 'coldly' bashing his cellmate to death with a Sunbeam sandwich press - inside Long Bay's 'frail offenders' unit’, August 2018, Daily Mail Australia, a...

What happened to 14-year-old Thora Chamberlain, who was abducted on the way to watch a school football game one Friday afternoon? The main suspect, who had a cunning ruse and a bold disguise, went on the run across America with the FBI hot on his trail. Even after he was captured, he continued to protest his innocence until the end.



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Sources:

Good, Meaghan, ‘1948: Thomas Henry McGonigle [sic], murder without a body’, February 2018, ExecutedToday.com, https://www.executedtoday.com/2018/02/20/1948-thomas-henry-mcgonigle-murder-without-a-body/ Herhold, Scott, ‘Eerie echoes of 1945 case in Sierra Lamar’s fate’, May 2017, Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/21/a-forerunner-to-sierra-lamar-case/ Kackley, Rod, ‘The Murder of Thora Chamberlain: A Shocking True Crime Story’, December 2021, Lyons Circle Publishing Inc
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Aug 18 1957, Newspapers.com

In 1984, a serial burglar and rapist was at large in England, his crimes spanning several Home Counties as well as the northeast of the country. He was armed, masked and dangerous, and he had an unusual calling card – in every house he broke into, he built himself a blanket fort in the living room and made himself at home, watching television and drinking cups of tea. His habit of den-building and the way he slunk off into the countryside after his assaults soon led to him being given the nickname ‘The Fox’. People were fearful, and the police had a tough job on their hands as his attacks crossed multiple jurisdictions. They were learning more about him each time he struck, but they needed to catch him fast before his violence escalated. Who was The Fox, and how would they find him?

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Sources: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/malcolmfairley/whowasmalcolmfairley/
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/thirty-five-years-on-from-crime-spree-that-shook-tring-1995858
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/08/03/islander-buys-sketches-by-uks-most-violent-inmate/
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In this episode, I’m bringing you a collection of short but grisly cases from the 1800s, which on their own would be too short for an episode, but they’re too intriguing not to share so I’ve put three of them together. Let’s go back in time for a whistle-stop tour of three crimes ranging from the brutal to the mysterious. If you’re looking for murders involving deceptions, an unscrupulous businessman who exterminated an entire family, an execution by guillotine, a strange letter, the death of a living scarecrow and more, this ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ episode has you covered with these bitesize blood-soaked crimes.

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"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Epidemic Sound Eternal Moment by Farrell, Wooten Trailing by Christian Andersen

Sources:
Bondeson Jan, ‘Victorian Murders’, 2017, Amberley Publishing
British Newspaper Archive
https://murderresearch.com/historic-serious-crime-and-victim-index/
https://historian416.rssing.com/chan-60133532/all_p3.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/Traupmannn.htm
https://thanatosarchive.com/2021/11/02/knick-family-murders-1869/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Traupmannn
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VKsOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-murder-in-manchester.html
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-murder-of-sarah-jane-roberts/

When a pair of legs washed up in Clifford Pier Harbour in Singapore, the police knew something was very wrong. That same week, a South African tourist who had travelled to the country to buy the latest electronics was reported missing. He would never make it home. Somehow, in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the world and a draconian criminal justice system, he fell prey to British serial killer John Scripps, who travelled the world murdering unsuspecting tourists and butchering their bodies. Who was Scripps, and how did the police track him down?

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Awakening, An Agent Alone by https://www.purple-planet.com
"Constance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sources:
Boon, Tan Ooi, ‘Body Parts: A British Serial Killer in Singapore, 1996’, April 2019, Straits Times Press

‘Guilty As Charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them’, May 2016, The Straits Times, https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-john-martin-scripps-befriended-tourists-then-butchered-them ‘

John Martin Scripps: Body-parts murder’, Singapore Infopedia, a...