The Trouble with Harriet - Two Murderous Tales
News of the Times Episode 398 | 1836 & 1843
In today’s episode we look at two cases involving women named Harriet.
Our first case from 1836 involves 21-year-old unhappily married Harriet Tarver. Harriet’s husband, Thomas, has abandoned her at least once and has only come back with some forceful parish pressure. A bit of a do-it-yourself health enthusiast, he has taken a few tablets of his own concoction, as well as the rice pudding Harriet has left him and died shortly afterwards. Was it his self-medication? Or the rice pudding that had been purchased?
In our second case from 1843, Harriet Monkton has been found, poisoned, in the toilet room next ot the church which she regularly attends. It is found that she pregnant and the initial suspicion is that she had been overcome with the shame and took matters into her own hands. But if this is the case, where is the phial that the poison would have been contained in? It cannot be found in the privy or on the grounds of the church anywhere.
Two murderous tales involving a troublesome, or troubled, Harriet is today’s episode.
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Disturbing Cases of Severed Heads
News of the Times Episode 53 | 1880 - 1885
In today’s episode we dip further into disturbing tales with three stories where scientists of the time, inspired by Marry Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, look to re-animate heads of criminals who faced the guillotine.

In Victorian society, there was no punishment worse than having one’s body interfered with in unnatural experimentation.

Our first story from 1880 is a crime so infamous and disturbing, it was referenced in initial criminal behaviour medical annals for decades after his death.

The second case from 1884 of the murder of a policeman’s widow, seemed to have more to do with the possibility of further scientific experiments on the heels of the previously mentioned crime. Dog lovers, look away.

In our last story of a treble murderer from 1885, the scientist involved in the creepy re-animation of the head would, for over a decade, swear that he had managed to bring back consciousness to the decapitated head although he had initially promised he would not due to the horror that would entail.

For those who like the weird and strange, (or stranger in this case!), check out our further particulars section at the end of the episode where we recount a house, under a barrage of stones which come from an unseen hand where the source, despite intense efforts, cannot be traced. The onslaught lasted for days.

Three creepy Halloween tales involving guillotined heads is today’s episode.
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The Creepy Case of the Shaftesbury Avenue Murder
News of the Times Episode 396 | 1894
In today’s episode, it is 1894 London. Mr Rasch has come home from his walk only to discover his house burgled of all its valuables whilst the children were playing downstairs.
Seeking his wife, he finds her in the bedroom, her ankles tied together with considerable bruising around the face. She is dead, although her body is still warm.
As police and the medical examiner arrive on the scene, what comes out is a highly disturbing account involving getting the young 8 year old daughter to play the piano loudly at the request of one of the murderous team - in effect, asking the daughter to play to cover the screams of her mother whilst she is being murdered.
The case was considered highly shocking at the time and impacted the community for weeks.
We take a look at the background, the crime and the capture, involving Scotland yard, in the The Creepy Case of the Shaftesbury Av Murder,
For those who are gearing up for the forthcoming halloween, check out our further particulars segment where we take a look at some of the superstitions from long ago which some still follow here in England including how to make your house lucky.
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EPISODE
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