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Blog 6: Wadhurst 1914 - A Mother gone Insane
Ellen Medhurst kills her Daughter Olive Ellen Medhurst was the 5th of 8 children born to William Medhurst, an engineer Blacksmith from...

Sarah Warren
Feb 23, 202415 min read
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Blog 5: Biddenden 1899 - Murdered by the Reverend Daughter
John Whibley is shot dead by Bertha Peterson, the Daughter of Rev. Peterson On Sunday 5th February, a shocking murder occurred in the...

Sarah Warren
Feb 18, 202426 min read
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Blog 4: Cranbrook 1912 - Murder by Insanity
The Murder of Mary Forward by Heskett Swatland Mary Jenner was born on 5 Jun 1853 in Sissinghurst, Kent. Mary was the 4th of 6 children,...
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Feb 16, 202411 min read
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Blog 3: Tunbridge Wells 1866 - Hanged for her sons murder
Ann Lawrence and the revenge murder of 4 year old Jessie Lawrence Ann was born in Farningham Kent to Lucy Church and Joseph Milton in...

Sarah Warren
Feb 10, 202420 min read
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Blog 2: Tunbridge Wells 1903 - Infanticide & suicide case
The case of a mother who strangled her 5 month old son Ada Anne was born in 1866 in Lympne, Kent, England. to George Alfred Fordred, a...

Sarah Warren
Feb 6, 20249 min read
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Blog 1: Maidstone 1875 - The case of Uxoricide
A Bargeman is charged with murdering his wife Kate Bell age 21 Harriett of Maidstone Kent, daughter of William Gardner, an engineer at...

Sarah Warren
Feb 4, 202411 min read
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