Victorian True Crime

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    • Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
    • By: Lisa Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On Halloween night, 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century....

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    • The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    • By: Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrated by: Louise Brealey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper....

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    • The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
    • By: Glenn Chandler
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players....

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    • Giving Victims a Voice Through Forensics
    • By: Meshel Laurie
    • Narrated by: Meshel Laurie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • CSI Told You Lies is a surprisingly moving account of the real forensic pathologists at the frontline of Australia's major crime and disaster investigations. These are the men and women whose post-mortem examinations help the dead to speak....

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    • A Penguin Audiobook Original
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This audio original from the acclaimed author of American Sherlock, and the host of multiple true-crime podcasts, including Wicked Words, tells the fascinating story of the supernatural, and the club that united some of the world's most illustrious thinkers....

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    • A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal
    • By: Kim Donovan
    • Narrated by: Lucy Scott
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Great Yarmouth, September 1900: A young woman is found dead on the beach, a bootlace tied tightly around her neck. Despite her death attracting national attention in the press, nobody claims her....

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Janice McKenzie
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britain’s fascination with good quality murder....

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    • The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 16-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called 'too intelligent to be killed'—and the array of 19th-century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind....

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    • A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime
    • By: Claire Harman
    • Narrated by: Andy Secombe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house....

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    • Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England
    • By: Marcia Biederman
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut, discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman....

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    • A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery
    • By: Kathryn McMaster
    • Narrated by: Sam Warren
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This gripping historical crime fiction novel, based on fact, is set in Bradford, England, 1888. It explores the horrific murder of Johnny Gill; a murder and mutilation so gruesome, it stuns a nation....

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    • Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
    • By: Julie Kavanagh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 28-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin....

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    • The Sensational True Story of a Victorian Murder Mystery
    • By: Thomas Morris
    • Narrated by: Brendan Dempsey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station....

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    • Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
    • By: Sinclair McKay
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boardinghouse, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this ordinary veneer lurked a murderous darkness....

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    • By: Christina Croft
    • Narrated by: Tim Fearon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Among over 80 women whose stories appear in this book, some were tragic; some were evil; some were mad; and several were undoubtedly innocent of the murders for which they were hanged....

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    • The Victorian Murder Trial That Scandalised a Nation
    • By: Dean Ruxton
    • Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland’s Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the picturesque island....

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    • The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
    • By: Dean Jobb
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper....

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    • Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer
    • By: Rupert Matthews
    • Narrated by: Phil Fox
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The shocking murders carried out by an unknown serial killer in London's East End during the autumn of 1888, haunted the public imagination at the time....

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    • Love, Sex and Murder in Victorian England
    • By: James Ruddick
    • Narrated by: Alistair Petrie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It took three days in 1876 for Charles Bravo to die from the poison that burned its way through his body. The investigation revealed many people with a grudge against the young barrister....

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