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In his 2002 book The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London, R. Michael Gordon suggests there may be a link to a murder in Paris in 1886, as well as to another murder in London in 1902. In November 1886, a woman's torso was found on the steps of the Montrouge church in Paris, missing the head, legs, right arm, left breast and uterus. [31]
The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, dubbed the "Barnes Mystery" or the "Richmond Murder" by the press, was one of the most notorious crimes in the Victorian period of the United Kingdom. Thomas, a widow in her 50s who lived in Richmond , London , was murdered on 2 March 1879 by her maid Kate Webster, a 30-year-old Irishwoman with a history of theft.
Price had reportedly received 200 criminal convictions before murdering Vukotic. [103] Shortly after murdering Vukotic, Price went on a crime spree, including rape, robbery, and an attempted carjacking. [102] 5 April 2015, English and drama teacher Stephanie Scott was raped and murdered in Leeton NSW, on the school grounds by janitor Vincent ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of Australian people who have been convicted of serious crimes. Bank robbers Australians convicted of bank robbery ...
The following is a list of serial killers i.e. a person who murders more than one person, [1] in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons [2] [3] who began committing their crimes before 1900.
Pursuant to the so-called "Bloody Code", by the 1770s some 222 crimes in Britain carried the death penalty. [12] Almost all of these were crimes against property, including such offences as the stealing of goods worth over 5 shillings, the cutting down of a tree, the theft of an animal, even the theft of a rabbit from a warren.
Statistics released by the Crime Statistics Agency in September 2018 showed a 7.8% drop in the overall crime rate. The statistics showed the criminal incident rate fell to 5,922 cases per 100,000 people in the previous year, continuing a trend of reduction in the overall number of criminal incidents from the previous year, with significant falls in theft, burglaries and drug dealing.
Charles Peace (14 May 1832 – 25 February 1879) was an English burglar and murderer, who embarked on a life of crime after being maimed in an industrial accident as a boy. After killing a policeman in Manchester , he fled to his native Sheffield , where he became obsessed with his neighbour's wife, eventually fatally shooting her husband.