Murder, Mystery and My Family

The case of Charlotte Bryant, who was arrested and hanged for the murder of her husband Frederick Bryant by arsenic poisoning in the 1930s.

Devlin and Burns were sentenced to death for the murder of Beatrice Rimmer in 1951.

Alfred Moore was sentenced to death for murdering two policemen in Huddersfield in 1951, but no murder weapon was found and there were a number of other suspects in the frame.

John Dickman convicted for a brutal murder in 1910.

Percy Thompson was stabbed to death in 1922, his wife and boyfriend were convicted of the crime.

A seaside case of murder and mistaken identity from Great Yarmouth in 1900, in a case involving false names, suspicious journeys and 100-year-old evidence.

An alleged false confession that led to the hanging of William Burtoft for the brutal murder of Frances Levin in her home in 1933 Manchester.

Henry Seymour's conviction for the violent burglary and murder of Annie Louisa Kempson in 1931.

A gang-related murder in Clapham Common, 1953 left a teenager dead and another man convicted.

John Twiss from County Kerry was convicted and hanged in February 1895, for murder.