Tag: last

• On This Day in 1949; Germaine Leloy-Godefroy, last French woman to face the guillotine.

  

  She was the last woman in France to face the dreaded ‘Timbers of Justice.’

  CrimeScribe

  April 21, 2018

  History, True Crime

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• I wrote a book.

  

    It’s been quite some time since I last posted ere, but I have been extremely busy with paid work and earning a living. Part of that has been writing my first book. Criminal Curiosities is a collection of crooks, all with something about their crime, trial or punishment that is singular to them. The…

  CrimeScribe

  October 19, 2017

  True Crime

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