It seemed like a normal evening at the Beehive pub in St John’s Hill, Battersea. Just a few regulars nursing their drinks while the hits of 1968 played on the jukebox. Then at around 9pm the barmaid Eileen Pooley took a drink out of her half pint of Guinness and… You must be a paid …
Category archives: Historical Murders
The Waterloo Bridge Mystery
London: 11.30pm, 8 October, 1857. Out of the darkness shuffled an elderly woman carrying a large, heavy bag. The toll keeper on the Strand side of the Thames, Henry Errington, watched as she laid a halfpenny on the iron plate and struggled to push through the stile. The bag was… You must be a paid …
Fingerprints: The murders of Thomas and Ann Farrow
The first British murder case to be solved using fingerprints took place in Detpford, south London, on 27 March 1905.