2025 Roundup
Every Case!
It's Christmas, and I am in the final throes of editing my PhD. Whose idea was the NYE hand-in?? My kids break up this afternoon, Mariah is in full voice, and I’m on at least one mince pie a day.
The Friday Murders return on 9th January, and I’ve got some absolute crackers lined up.
As has become a tradition, rather than pollute your inbox with fresh horror just in time for making merry, my last post of the year is a review of every murder covered.
The joy of being a PhD student in the UK means that your stipend stops as soon as you hand your thesis in, even though you haven’t done your viva or corrections, so I will be penniless come 1st January.
So, a huge thank you if you have subscribed to the newsletter, or if you’ve read and shared my work on social media. It really does make all the difference.
I hope you have a lovely break!
I’ve published twenty-one stories of murder this year, with thirty-six victims. These are their names:
Frances Smaller, Boston, 1818 [Free]
Mary Alice Attenborough, Boston, 1818 [Free]
Lucy Wilson, Chesterfield, 1907 [Free]
William Martin, John Lacey, John Thomas Colman, Alfred Ebbage, Norwich, 1875/1876.
Mary Ann Sarah Cook, Agnes Josephine Cook, Eugenie Cook, Louisa Elizabeth Cook, Windsor, 1864.
An International Women’s Day special [Free]
William Langley, Northampton, 1892.
Annie Pritchard and Percy Anderson, Northampton, 1892
Nathaniel Bacon, Ann Bacon, Edwin Fuller Bacon and Sarah Ann Bacon, Stamford and London, 1854-1856.
Elizabeth Gardner and her unborn child, London, 1862. [Free]
Jane Lewis and her unborn child, Ystrad, 1862.
Amelia Litchfield, Northampton, 1880.
Susannah Hutton, Liverpool, 1883.
Sarah Millson, London, 1862.
A special on legal defence in the nineteenth century [Free]
William Bushby, George Bushby and John Bushby, Ponteland, 1866.
Jane Mary Lovett, Costessey, 1845.
Annie Rebecca Brownsell, Butleigh, 1898.
John Thomas Cooper, Thornaby, 1883.
William Woollard, Saffron Walden, 1898. [Free]
Hannah Hamshaw, Liverpool, 1883.
Henry Gilbert Colburt, Hail Weston, 1878.
Isabella Crosby Taylor, Sunderland, 1889.
Thanks again for reading and for supporting me.
See you in 2026!