104 - The Thames Torso Murders

The annals of late Victorian era crime are usually dominated by one name, but another series of murders, ones lesser-known but more grisly, took place from 1886-1889 with some outlying cases that may or may not have been connected. Were these murders all the work of the same offender? In some cases, were they even murders at all?

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―. East Kent Gazette, September 15, 1888.

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―. La Lanterne (Paris), November 26, 1886.

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―. Central Somerset Gazette, June 11, 1887.

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