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 love for the curious corners of the past.
🕵️ For those with a taste for the peculiar, you may also enjoy our new side project: Volume 1: Slightly Unreliable Memoirs — a whimsical collection inspired by the lives (and occasional misadventures) of our research team. Think cravats, crumpets, and the occasional cactus on the lam. Intrigued? Find it here:
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Episodes
721 episodes
The Limehouse Mystery — The 1867 Case That Divided Victorian London
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.Bu...
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The Malthouse Murder | Wolverton’s Burning Secret (1867)
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...
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Sarah Chesham: The Essex Poisoner Who Changed British Law (1847–1851)
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...
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Bayonet Madness in Batley: A Victorian Double Murder
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 se...
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He Slept Beside His Brother… Then Butchered Him With an Axe | The 1857 Maidstone Fratricide
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 f...
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The Paris Poisoning Scandal: Madame Tiquet's Fall from Society to the Scaffold (1699)
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, ...
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Arsenic, Bonnets and Betrayal: The 1869 Dudley Poisoning of Joseph Oliver
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 ...
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A Ghost Story Without a Ghost: The Chelsea Parlour Murder of 1833
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 mo...
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The Woman in Black and the Murder of Augusta Dawes | True Crime 1894
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’...
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The Nolagh House of Horror: Ireland’s 1898 Family Massacre
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 doo...
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The Scissors Murder Mystery: Unsolved Brixton Crime Shocks Edwardian London
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...
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The 1913 Sun Inn Pub Murders | True Crime
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 tragedie...
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Scottish Mystery: The Bound Woman and the Pit That Hid the Truth | True Crime 1909
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 aba...
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The Actress Who Tried to Kill Her Mother | True Crime 1909
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...
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Scotland Yard Casebook: Harold Jones – The Boy Killer Who Fooled a Town
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 t...
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Strangled by a Rejected Love: The 1909 Cornwall Murder of Emily Tredrea | True Crime 1909
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 bruta...
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The Shocking Murder of Harriet Farmer – Bound and Gagged Above Her Shop (1904) | True Crime
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 re...
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The 1900 Beeston Murder: Mary Ann Blewitt Found Dead in Her Chair | True Crime
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...
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The Riviera Murderer Who Lured Women to Their Deaths | True Crime 1902
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-...
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Scotland Yard Casebook: The Jealous Seamstress Who Stabbed Her Lover in Broad Daylight | True Crime
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 knif...
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Body Under the Bed: The 1920 Murder That Shook Little Marlow
Body Under the Bed: The 1920 Murder That Shook Little MarlowNews of the Times | Episode 544 |1921When police forced their way into a silent riverside cottage in Little Marlow, they made a chilling discovery: the body of a young woma...
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Scotland Yard Casebook The Locked Garage Murder – A Chilling 1929 Crime Mystery
Scotland Yard Casebook The Locked Garage Murder – A Chilling 1929 Crime MysteryNews of the Times | Episode 543 | 1929 In the winter of 1929, Southampton held its breath. Behind the padlocked doors of a quiet garage, the decomposed body ...
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Scotland Yard Casebook: The Hotel Murder That Baffled London (1922)
Scotland Yard Casebook: The Hotel Murder That Baffled London (1922)News of the Times | Episode 542 | 1922London, 1922. A respected widow is found in her bed at the Spencer Hotel near Oxford Street — her skull fractured, her life slippin...
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Sisters, Poison, and Betrayal: The Forfar Murder Case of 1827
Sisters, Poison, and Betrayal: The Forfar Murder Case of 1827News of the Times | Episode 540 | 1827IIn the quiet Scottish town of Forfar, 1827, a tragic case unfolds — one shrouded in domestic routine, whispered secrets, and the quiet h...
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Confessed After 22 Years — The Victorian Murder That Refused to Stay Buried
Confessed After 22 Years — The Victorian Murder That Refused to Stay BuriedNews of the Times | Episode 539 | 1879 Step into the shadowy world of Victorian secrets, where murder doesn’t always stay in the past. In today’s chilling tale, ...
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