Lady Justice True Crime
The 1930s was the golden age of scandal, and the Rattenbury’s were masters of the art form. Their ultimate scandal ended with blood spilt. Love triangle’s, a whodunnit murder, a suicide on the riverbank, a sex act in a public toilet and a secret kept until death conceives a case straight from a Film Noir; except it’s all true.
I did it with a mallet. It’s hidden ‘rats’ has lived too long. No, my lover did it… I will give you £10. No, I won’t bribe you
Alma Rattenbury
When a police sergeant was involved in a car accident, he had a large object wrapped in the back of his van. A few weeks later a body was recovered from a river.
I mean an evil eye
Raymond Beard
The executioner John Thrift was a hated man in London and even carried out the last beheading in English history. Curiously he was convicted of murder himself – yet was back at work as hangman merely months later.
Thrift at this time strike the deceased one blow on the left side of the head with a hanger
William Carrier
It was a white Christmas in 1938, but for the Key family, it was marred by tragedy. A robbery gone wrong had left a man dead and all that was left of the killer was his bowler hat. His motive? To buy two little girls a Christmas present.
Two-month widow of murderer is to marry again!
Daily Express
A killer so depraved was William Corder that everyone wanted a piece of him – literally. His crime against his young lover Maria Marten gave infamy to a sleepy English village and his legacy left tales of curses for the next 200 years.
I am guilty; my sentence is just; I deserve my fate; and, may God have mercy on my soul.
William Corder
It was 12:50 am on a quiet Friday morning when a man walked into a Sunderland police station and declared to the officer before him “I’ve just cut my bairns head clean off”. This is the case of little Tommy Tucknett.
Oh mister please take us with you, daddy’s cut our Tommy’s head off
Sarah Tucknutt
An outstanding centre-half, the budding Aston Villa player, Tommy Ball became the first and only active English professional footballer to be murdered. In this episode, we discuss how a quarrel over chickens in the late evening of November 11, 1923, became deadly.
I described it as arguably the greatest tragedy in the club’s history
Rob Bishop
The notorious British serial killer, Reg Christie had been known to kill at least five women by the time he came to his deadliest year – 1953. In this episode, we take a look at the 46 days in which his final murders take place, his eventual downfall and the consequences of this case.
When I murdered my wife I removed the one obstacle which for ten years had apparently held me in check. After she had gone the way was clear for me to fulfil my destiny.
John Reginald Christie
With an IQ of 128, Reg Christie was an intelligent man but an awful criminal. His need for thrill led him down a path of petty crime but when that didn’t suffice anymore, he decided he would kill.
In the first of three episodes, we take a look at the man, from childhood through to his first two known victims.
For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold . . . there is a peace about death that soothes me.
John Reginald Christie
In 1945; just a month after VE day, a 14-year-old girl decided to take a stroll on a Sunday afternoon in the sleepy Suffolk countryside.
Discovered shoved under a bush, just a few hours after leaving her family home; she was close to death after being beaten with a large branch. She was to die just a few hours later.
Daphne Bacon’s killer was someone in an occupation the country collective trusted, and it sent shockwaves nationwide.
I lay awake all night thinking of what I had done to that poor girl.
Earnest Bailey
Lady Justice True Crime