The Murder of Rhoda Carter

The Murder of Rhoda Carter
News of the Times Episode 292 | 1893
1893 Watchfield in Berkshire and relatively newly married Rhoda Carter has gone missing.  It is high summer, yet John, her husband, has had a huge fire going on in the washroom giving off a terrible stench. His story of his wife going to help her pregnant sister turns out to be false.  Returning to ask more questions, John himself has vanished.
This case gripped the papers due to the extreme mutilations of the body.  As investigations are pursued, it would seem that Rhoda was wife number three who has either had a terrible accident or vanished.
The case was so famous in its time, and the crime so horrifically brutal, that the murderer’s wax effigy spent many years in Mme Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors.
We look at the background, the crime and the capture of the murderer of Rhoda carter in today’s episode of Murderous Mondays.

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