Taphophobia is the fear of being buried alive and was perhaps more likely to happen than you believe, especially in the Victorian Era. In todays episode we look at cases and the innovative inventors who invented Safety coffins to prevent premature burials.

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Burning at the Stake was probably one of the most horrific forms of Execution, yet many Countries performed it as a Means of Punishment. In todays episode of the HCCP we look at some of these practices, reasons and cases.

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1898 saw the a USA first: Murder through the Mail. A parcel of poisoned Candies were sent by a rejected woman.

Story from Thomas Samuel Duke, Celebrated Criminal cases of America

The World has many Pubs with unusual and quirky stories behind their names, and nowhere is this more true than the UK and Ireland. In todays episode we look a few of these stories.

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In English Law during the 1920s and 30s gaining a Divorce wasn't easy, but a technique was devised to secure one. It became known as a Brighton Quickie

Merry Christmas dear listeners and as is now custom we have a fictional Christmas crime story.

This year its Cyril Hare's 1949 short story about a man who is being Blackmailed and is determined to find and gain revenge on his Blackmailer.

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1815 in London, the talk of the town was of a rich, young Pig Faced Lady in Manchester Square. In this Regency Era she wasn't short of Suitors....

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the story of the Spaghetti trees....https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU?si=W8z4gdAZhk9eSMES

A tale of favourites, romance and murder in the Court of James I

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On the 9th of February, 1918, Nellie Trew walked across Eltham Common and was never seen alive again. Scotland Yard Detective, Francis Carlin solved the crime and this is his account of the case.

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Francis Carlin: Reminiscences of a Scotland Yard Detective (1927)

On August 1st, 1950, a body of a woman was found dead in Rotherham....but it turned out not to be a woman.

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Margaret Drinkall, Rotherham Murders,  Wharncliffe books (2011)

In todays episode we will look at historical Pickpockets, the Artful dodgers of the world of crime

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Palk, Deirdre (2006). "Pickpocketing". Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion 1780–1830. Great Britain: The Boydell Press.

Hitchcock, Tim; Shoemaker, Robert (2010). Tales from the Hanging Court. Bloomsbury Acadaemic

unlacethevictorians.blogspot.com/2011/04/mayhew-files-pickpockets.html

www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/juvenile-crime-in-the-19th-century