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Blog 9: New Romney 1867 - Murdered by a Jealous Stepmother
Frances Kidder hanged for the murder of her Stepdaughter Frances Kiidder born Frances Drury in Brenchley Kent, in the last Quarter of...

Sarah Warren
Mar 22, 202426 min read
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Blog 8: Tunbridge Wells 1902 - Sequel to Harold Apted Blog - The letters
The culprit of the threatening letters was caught. The follow-on from last weeks blog on Frances O'Rourke's Murder On Friday 14th March a...

Sarah Warren
Mar 15, 20249 min read
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Blog 7: Tonbridge 1901 - The New Years Eve child murder
The murder of Francie Eliza O'Rourke by Harold Apted John Laney O'Rourke whose father John O'Rourke was a journeyman tailor had moved his...

Sarah Warren
Mar 8, 202437 min read
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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,...
crimehistorykent
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 5, 202411 min read
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