Tag: Home Secretary

• Graham Young – The Teacup Poisoner.

  

  Crowthorne, Bovingdon, Sheerness, St. Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Newport on the Isle of Wight. All small English towns in leafy, quiet places, all forever linked by the dark legacy of one man; Graham Young. One of the most notorious serial poisoners in English history and feared even by other convicts, Young’s trail of terror links them…

  CrimeScribe

  May 27, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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• On This Day in 1934, Ethel Lillie Major.

  

  Normally this time of year would be cause for celebration, a time of Christmas cheer and goodwill to all men. That wasn’t the case for Ethel Major who stood condemned for the murder of her husband Arthur. For her the previous couple of days had been spent sobbing and incoherent as she pondered her imminent…

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  December 19, 2019

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• Doctor George Henry Lamson, the ‘Sleight of Hand Poisoner’; Not as clever as he thought.

  

  All in all, a sorry fate for a man who'[d once shown such promise.

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  April 28, 2018

  True Crime

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