Name: Murder Maps
Uploaded: 2022-09-20T23:01:50.000Z
Description: Back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history.

Back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history. 

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In 1849, a man suddenly disappeared in Bermondsey, discovering that he had been brutally murdered.

The Bermondsey Horror

At the time of Jack The Ripper, London was home to some of the most terrible individuals the city has ever seen.

In The Shadow Of Jack

Having killed his wife and buried her in the basement, Dr Crippen believed he had escaped on a ship to Canada.

Finding Dr Crippen

George Smith had many aliases. He needed them for his many wives who he would soon murder in order to claim the inheritance.

The Brides In The Bath Killer

Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were convicted for murdering her husband in a case that shocked society and fascinated Alfred Hitchcock.

Terror In The Roaring Twenties

London was rocked by the Blitz from the planes flying above during the WWII and a serial killer was loose on the streets below.

The Blackout Ripper

As Europe recovered from the damage of WWII, soldiers made their way home from the front line; one man brought back all the savagery and brutality of the fighting and killed two women.

The Lady Killer

John Christie kills at least eight women during the 1940s and 1950s, including his wife, while attempting to frame his neighbour.

Notting Hill Horror (part 1)

John Christie kills at least eight women during the 1940s and 1950s, including his wife; he eluded capture for many years.

Notting Hill Horror (part 2)

On a hot summers day in 1934, a horrifying discovery was made in a trunk at the left luggage office of Brighton Train Station.

The Brighton Trunk Murders

As police investigated the disappearance of wealthy widow, Olive Durand Deacon, in early 1949, they could not have imagined the gruesome confession.

The Acid Bath Murders

The day before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a body of a teenage girl was found floating in the River Thames

The Towpath Murders

In 1955, London nightclub manager Ruth Ellis confesses to the murder of her abusive lover, then becomes the last woman to be executed in Britain.

Ruth Ellis

Peter Manuel was a Scottish serial killer who killed at least eight people between 1956 -1958 around the Greater Glasgow area in Scotland.

The Beast of Birkenshaw

Nineteenth-century serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, aka the Black Widow, travels around northeast England and murders men for their life insurance.

The Black Widow

Dr Ruxton accused his wife of infidelity for years but in September 1935 Ruxton's jealousy got the better of him.

The Jigsaw Murders

The 1966 murders of three police officers in Shepherd's Bush lead to a huge manhunt and calls for the reinstatement of the death penalty.

The Shepherd's Bush Murders

The most famous serial killer in history, the man who murdered five women on the streets of Whitechapel - and got away with it.

Jack The Ripper Part 1

An examination of the notorious crimes of Jack the Ripper, among the most infamous serial killer in history, who murdered five women in Whitechapel, England.

Jack The Ripper Part 2

In 1911, a gun battle on the streets of London, The Siege of Sidney Street, is the first breaking-news story in history.

The Siege of Sidney Street

The First World War took the lives of countless soldiers on the front line. But one man in Paris too old for combat saw this as an opportunity.

Bluebeard

An investigation into Herbert Rowse Armstrong, known to history as "The Hay Poisoner," received a conviction in 1922 of murdering his wife with arsenic.

The Hay Poisoner

Putting on the front of a kindly baby farmer, someone who takes in the children of unwed mothers for a fee, Amelia Dyer became the most prolific killer in British history.

Amelia Dyer

Cleveland, Ohio became a notorious city in the 1930s, struggling under the Great Depression, crime and corruption even before a serial killer prowled its streets.

The Cleveland Torso Murders

In 1878, a widow is killed in her own home, and the killer is her own servant; the young servant does not only kill and dismember her employer, she also steals her clothes, her property and her identity.

The Richmond Murders

Until its closure in 2016, Madame Tussauds' Chamber of Horrors was one of the museum's oldest and most popular attractions.

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