"accused of crimes committed in the City and Middlesex were tried. However, in 1856, there was public revulsion at the accusations against the doctor William Palmer that he was a poisoner and murderer. This led to fears that he could not receive a fair trial in his native Staffordshire. The Central Criminal Court Act 1856 was passed to enable his trial to be held at the Old Bailey. In the 19th century, the Old Bailey was a courtroom adjacent to Newgate Prison. Hangings were a public spectacle in the street outside until May 1868. The condemned would be led along"
"Thomas Neill Cream Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims in the United States and the rest in England, and possibly others in Canada and Scotland. Cream, who poisoned his victims, was executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought him to the attention of London police. Unsubstantiated rumours suggested his last words as he was being hanged were a confession that he was Jack the Ripper—even though he was supposed to be in prison at"
"Graham Young Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990) was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims. He was sent to Broadmoor Hospital in 1962 after poisoning several members of his family. After his release in 1971 he went on to poison 7 more people, two of whom died. Young, who was known as the Teacup Poisoner later the St. Albans Poisoner, was then sent to Parkhurst Prison where he died of a heart attack in 1990. Young was born in Neasden, north west London. His mother died a few months after his"
"behavioural clues gathered from the murders all point to a person ""known to the police as David Cohen ... or someone very much like him"". Sir William Withey Gull (31 December 1816 – 29 January 1890) was physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria. He was named as the Ripper as part of the evolution of the widely discredited Masonic/royal conspiracy theory outlined in such books as """". Coachman John Netley has been named as his accomplice. Thanks to the popularity of this theory among fiction writers and for its dramatic nature, Gull shows up as the Ripper in a number of books"
"as medium) secure units in most of the health regions in England and Wales. Prior to that there had been only the high security hospitals of Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. Graham Young Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990) was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims. He was sent to Broadmoor Hospital in 1962 after poisoning several members of his family. After his release in 1971 he went on to poison 7 more people, two of whom died. Young, who was known as the Teacup Poisoner later the St. Albans Poisoner, was"
"Tracey Wigginton Tracey Wigginton (born 1965), known as the ""Lesbian Vampire Killer"", is an Australian murderer who achieved notoriety for killing Edward Baldock in 1989, supposedly to drink his blood. This was described as ""one of the most brutal and bizarre crimes Australia has ever seen"". Edward Baldock (47) was a council worker, and father of four, walking home after drinking with friends. Wigginton, who allegedly killed and drank the blood of animals, had been planning for some time to escalate to murdering a man so that she could ""feed"" on him. On the night of the murder, Wigginton (then"
"George Chapman (murderer) George Chapman (14 December 1865 – 7 April 1903), born as Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski, was a Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner. Born in Congress Poland, he moved to England as an adult, where he committed his crimes. Chapman was convicted and executed after poisoning three women, but is remembered today mostly because some contemporary police officers suspected him of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper. George Chapman was born in the village of Nagórna in the Warsaw Governorate of Congress Poland to Antonio and Emile Klosowski. His father was a carpenter. According"
"was Wigginton's second parole application. Tracey Wigginton Tracey Wigginton (born 1965), known as the ""Lesbian Vampire Killer"", is an Australian murderer who achieved notoriety for killing Edward Baldock in 1989, supposedly to drink his blood. This was described as ""one of the most brutal and bizarre crimes Australia has ever seen"". Edward Baldock (47) was a council worker, and father of four, walking home after drinking with friends. Wigginton, who allegedly killed and drank the blood of animals, had been planning for some time to escalate to murdering a man so that she could ""feed"" on him. On the night"
"William MacDonald (serial killer) William MacDonald, (17 June 1924 – 12 May 2015), known as ""the (Sydney) Mutilator"", was classed as Australia's first true serial killer. MacDonald was born in Liverpool, England in 1924. Between 1961 and 1962 MacDonald terrorised Sydney with a string of gruesome murders before being apprehended while working as a porter at Melbourne's Spencer Street railway station on 13 May 1963. His modus operandi was to select his male victims at random (mostly derelicts), lure them into a dark place, violently stab them dozens of times about the head and neck with a long bladed knife,"
"and that in this state of mind he had perpetrated the five canonical Jack the Ripper murders. Although Stowell did not directly name his suspect in the article, he described in detail the suspect's family and his physical appearance and nicknames, all of which pointed to Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Stowell wrote that following a double murder on 30 September 1888, his suspect was restrained by his own family in an institution in the south of England, but later escaped to commit a final murder on 9 November before ultimately dying of syphilis."
"Sarah Dazley Sarah Dazley (1819 – 5 August 1843), later known as the ""Potton Poisoner"", was an English murderer convicted of the poisoning of her husband William Dazley. Dazley was suspected, but not tried, in the poisoning of her first husband Simeon Mead and their son Jonah Mead in 1840. The murder of William Dazley took place in Wrestlingworth, England. Born in 1819 in the town of Potton, Bedfordshire, Sarah Reynolds was the daughter of the town barber Philip Reynolds and his wife Ann Reynolds. At the age of 7, Dazley's father died and her mother went on to date"
"and converses with D.I. John River as a ""manifest"". In the first episode (in 2000) of ""Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes,"" the young Conan Doyle and Dr Bell pursue a murder case that involves a Thomas Neill, played by the actor Alec Newman. At the end, a postscript further identifies him as Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, who attended medical school alongside the real Arthur Conan Doyle. Thomas Neill Cream Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims"
"the middle ""e"". Wainewright was the subject of the seventeenth episode of the television show ""Thriller"", ""The Poisoner"" (aired 10 January 1961), with Murray Matheson playing the role of the killer (given the fictional name Thomas Edward Griffith) and featuring Sarah Marshall as his wife. Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (October 1794 – 17 August 1847) was an English artist, author and suspected serial killer. He gained a reputation as profligate and a dandy, and in 1837, was transported to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian state of Tasmania) for frauds on the Bank of"
"prompting a strong letter of denial published in ""The People"" on 26 January 1896: Dr. Thomas Eldon Alexander Stowell, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.S. published an article in ""The Criminologist"" entitled ""'Jack the Ripper' – A Solution?"" Stowell was a junior colleague to Dr Theodore Dyke Acland, Gull’s son-in-law. He alleges that one of Gull’s patients was the Whitechapel murderer. He refers to the killer as ""S"" throughout the article without ever identifying him, but the identity of ""S"" is widely presumed to be Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, HM Queen Victoria's grandson and heir presumptive to the throne."
"Chapman killed acquaintances, and although Chapman did live in Whitechapel it was not particularly near the scene of the murders. Chapman's story was dramatised twice by Towers of London. Firstly in 1949 in ""Secrets of Scotland Yard"" as ""George Chapman... Poisoner, Publican and Lady Killer"" and then again in a 1951 episode of ""The Black Museum"" entitled ""The Straight Razor"". Both conclude with a brief argument for Chapman's identity as Jack the Ripper. George Chapman (murderer) George Chapman (14 December 1865 – 7 April 1903), born as Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski, was a Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner."
"James Maybrick James Maybrick (24 October 1838 – 11 May 1889) was a Liverpool cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of murdering him by poisoning in a sensational trial. The ""Aigburth Poisoning"" case was widely reported in the press on both sides of the Atlantic. More than a century after his death, Maybrick was accused of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, through his own words in a diary, but critics countered that the diary and confession are a hoax. Forensic tests were inconclusive. In 2017, Bruce Robinson and a team of researchers,"
"Mary Ann Cotton Mary Ann Cotton (' Robson; 31 October 1832 – 24 March 1873) was an English serial killer, convicted of, and hanged for, the murder by poisoning of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. It is likely that she murdered three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies, and many others. She may have murdered as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children. She chiefly used arsenic poisoning, causing gastric pain and rapid decline of health. Mary Ann Robson was born on 31 October 1832 at Low Moorsley (now part"
"concluded that Oxford is delusional and has been writing letters from Hanover to himself. Edward Oxford Edward Oxford (19 April 1822 – 23 April 1900) was the first of seven people who tried to assassinate Queen Victoria. After Oxford was arrested and charged with treason, a jury found that Oxford was not guilty by reason of insanity and he was detained at Her Majesty's pleasure in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum and later, in Broadmoor Hospital. Eventually given conditional release for transportation to a British colony, he lived out the remainder of his life in Australia. Edward was born in"
"was convicted of murdering 13 women (and wounding seven others), mainly those who worked as prostitutes, over a period of five years from 1975 to 1980 in northern England; and to ""Jack the Ripper"", the infamous Victorian serial murderer who also targeted prostitutes. As with previous serial killers dating back to Jack the Ripper, many sections of the media have attempted to coin a name for the presumed murderer, using the ""Suffolk Strangler"", and other terms to refer to the case. A reward was offered, first by local business Call Connection, who initially offered £25,000 and later raised it to"
"John Haigh John George Haigh (; 24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer. He was convicted for the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine. He battered or shot his victims to death and used concentrated sulphuric acid to dispose of their corpses before forging papers so he could sell the victims' possessions and collect substantial sums of money. During the investigation, it became apparent that Haigh was using the acid to destroy victims' bodies because he misunderstood the meaning of the term ""corpus"
"24 May and subsequently charged with killing the three women. After being found guilty, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Stephen Shaun Griffiths (born 24 December 1969 in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire) was arrested and in May 2010 he appeared in the magistrates' court giving his name as the Crossbow Cannibal. At a crown court appearance that afternoon he was remanded in custody until his next court appearance. He made a second appearance at crown court on 7 June via a video link from Wakefield Prison where a trial date of 16 November 2010"
"attracted the attention of Victorian society at large. Journalists, letter writers, and amateur detectives all suggested names either in press or to the police. Most were not and could not be taken seriously. For example, at the time of the murders, Richard Mansfield, a famous actor, starred in a theatrical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's book ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". The subject matter of horrific murder in the London streets and Mansfield's convincing portrayal led letter writers to accuse him of being the Ripper. William Henry Bury (25 May 1859 – 24 April 1889) had recently"
"century after the murders, author Bruce Paley proposed him as a suspect as Kelly's scorned or jealous lover, and suggested that he'd committed the other murders to scare Kelly off the streets and out of prostitution. Other authors suggest he killed Kelly only, and mutilated the body to make it look like a Ripper murder, but Abberline's investigation appears to have exonerated him. Other acquaintances of Kelly's put forward as her murderer include her landlord John McCarthy and her former boyfriend Joseph Fleming. Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) was the"
"Raymond Edmunds Raymond Edmunds, also known as the Donvale Rapist and Mr. Stinky, born 12 March 1944 at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, is a convicted rapist and double murderer who was active in Victoria, Australia from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Edmunds was dubbed ""Mr Stinky"" by a sub-editor from Melbourne's ""Sunday Press"" newspaper due to his offensive body odour, which was believed to have been caused by a mixture of milk, manure and chemicals from his work as a sharecropping farmer on dairy properties. Edmunds was convicted of the murder of 18-year-old panel beater Garry Heywood and rape"
"Celestina Sommer Celestina Sommer (1 July 1827 – 11 April 1859) was a Victorian murderer, notorious as much for her escape from the death penalty as for the murder of her only daughter. Known as the ""Islington Murderess"", she became an international cause célèbre: examined in the world's press, both houses of the British Parliament, even Queen Victoria's inner circle. Her case, recently rediscovered, reignited the fierce debates on crime and insanity, capital punishment and crime and gender. Born 1 July 1827, she was the fourth of eight children from a respectable family of silversmiths in the north London borough"
"Thomas Stevenson (toxicologist) Thomas Stevenson (1838 – 18 January 1908) was an English toxicologist and forensic chemist. He served as an analyst to the Home Office and in England he served as an expert witness in many famous poisoning cases. These included the Pimlico Mystery, The Maybrick Case, the Lambeth Poisoner, and the George Chapman case. In 1857 Stevenson became a medical pupil to Mr Steel of Bradford. He entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1859 and graduated MB, London, in 1863 and M.D. in 1864. He won several gold medals whilst a student. He became MRCP in 1864 and"
"John Wayne Glover John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women, including Winifreda, Lady Ashton, widow of the famous English-Australian impressionist painter Sir Will Ashton (MBE), on Sydney's North Shore. Over a 14-month period in 1989/90, Glover killed six elderly women, for which he was dubbed in the press as the ""Granny Killer"". Following his arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He committed suicide by hanging himself in"
"John Gardner (British writer) John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, was for a period an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time. After a battle with alcohol addiction he wrote his first book, the autobiographical ""Spin the Bottle"", published in 1964. Gardner went on to write"
"John Gardner (British writer) John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty. Gardner, an ex-Royal Marine commando, was for a period an Anglican priest, but he lost his faith and left the church after a short time. After a battle with alcohol addiction he wrote his first book, the autobiographical ""Spin the Bottle"", published in 1964. Gardner went on to write"
"of her boyfriend. Mark Valera Mark Valera (previously Mark van Krevel) (born 24 April 1979) is an Australian murderer who was convicted in 2000 of the murders of David O'Hearn and Frank Arkell at Wollongong, New South Wales. David O'Hearn was murdered in his Albion Park home on 12 June 1998. His head was smashed in with a wine decanter. He was then decapitated, with his head later found in the kitchen sink. His hand was cut off, and he had been partially disemboweled. Valera had used O'Hearn's hand to draw several satanic pictures on the living room walls. Frank"
"the yellow ruffs, which Turner had supposedly taught Hibbins how to make. Anne Turner is a character in the novel ""The King's Minion"" (also known as ""The Minion"") by Rafael Sabatini, which is about the Overbury murder. Anne Turner (murderer) Mrs Anne Turner (5 January 1576 – 15 November 1615), aka Mistress Anne Turner or Mrs. Anne Turner, was the widow of a respectable London doctor who was hanged at Tyburn for her role in the famous 1613 poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury referenced in the plays ""A New Trick to Cheat the Devil"", ""The Widow"", ""The World Tossed at"
"refers to the Stratton Brothers who were the first men to be convicted in Great Britain for murder based on fingerprint evidence John George Haigh was an English serial killer, active between 1944 and 1949 Neville Heath, an English killer who was responsible for the murders of at least two young women who was executed in London in 1946 Dennis Nilsen, a serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer, who committed the murders of 15 young men in London, England Thomas Neill Cream, also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-born"
"Mark Valera Mark Valera (previously Mark van Krevel) (born 24 April 1979) is an Australian murderer who was convicted in 2000 of the murders of David O'Hearn and Frank Arkell at Wollongong, New South Wales. David O'Hearn was murdered in his Albion Park home on 12 June 1998. His head was smashed in with a wine decanter. He was then decapitated, with his head later found in the kitchen sink. His hand was cut off, and he had been partially disemboweled. Valera had used O'Hearn's hand to draw several satanic pictures on the living room walls. Frank Arkell, a former"