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Episode 195: Straight to the Heart
🕑 Added 2022-03-28 04:01:04 +0000 UTCWhen a series of gruesome murders leaves one community feeling threatened and afraid, it was only through the reenactment of folklore that they eventually found relief.
Written and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with research by Sam Alberty, and music by Chad Lawson.
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Further Reading
- “Meet Lausanne's First Woman Night Watch In 600 Years,” Hodinkee, September 2020, https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/meet-lausannes-first-woman-night-watch-in-600-years.
- Brain, Jessica. “Bow Street Runners.” Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Bow-Street-Runners.
- “Enforcing Law and Order.” BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z9f4srd/revision/2.
- Flanders, Judith. The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Deadth and Detection and Created Modern Crime. Kindle Edition. Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.
- “Horrid and Unparalleled Murders!” The Morning Chronicle (London). 12/9/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/392111680/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “Interment of John Williams.” The Times (London). 1/1/1812. Page 4. https://www.newspapers.com/image/32925856/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- James, P. D., and T. A. Chritchley. The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811. New York: The Mysterious Press, 1971.
- Jeffries, PC Bob. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, December 1811.” Thames Police Museum. http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.html.
- “The Late Atrocious Murders.” The Morning Chronicle. 12/26/2811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/392113398/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “The Late Horrible Murders.” The Morning Post (London). 12/25/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/396848676/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- Liddell, Stephen. “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” 10/29/2018. https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2018/10/29/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders.
- “More Murders.” The Times (London). 12/21/1811. Page 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/32827523/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “The Murder in Ratcliffe Highway.” The Morning Post (London). 12/10/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/396847873/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “The Murder in Ratcliffe Highway: Coroner’s Inquest.” The Morning Post (London). 12/11/1811. https://www.newspapers.com/image/396847920/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “Murders in New Gravel Lane.” The Morning Chronicle (London). 12/24/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/392112964/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “Murders in New Gravel Lane.” The Morning Chronicle (London). 12/25/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/392113073/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “The Murders at Ratcliff.” The Morning Chronicle (London). 12/27/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/392113472/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “The Murders at Ratcliff.” The Morning Chronicle (London). 12/28/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/392113563/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- “The Murders in Ratcliffe Highway.” The Times (London). 12/11/1811. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/32826009/?terms=Marr&match=1.
- Nicholas, Dean. “200th Anniversary of the Ratcliffe Highway Murders.” Londonist. 12/7/2011. https://londonist.com/2011/12/200th-anniversary-of-the-ratcliffe-highway-murders.
- Radzinowicz, L. “The Ratcliffe Murders,” The Cambridge Law Journal, 14.1 (Apr., 1956), pp. 39-66.
- “The Ratcliffe Highway in the Nineteenth Century.” The Ratcliffe Highway. 4/21/2015. https://theratcliffehighway.wordpress.com.
- White, Jerry. London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God. Vintage Books, 2011. Kindle Edition.
- “The Hammersmith Ghost and the Strange Death of Thomas Millwood,” Crime Magazine, April 2015, http://www.crimemagazine.com/hammersmith-ghost-and-strange-death-thomas-millwood.
