Tag: Crime

• Breakfast, Then Death

  

  This work of short fiction by Claire L. Smith centres on the death of a victim of domestic abuse. Her trauma so embedded, she mindlessly continues her everyday life as she dies. Please note that although this post does not contain graphic descriptions of violence, it does contain graphic descriptions of injury. 

  Death and the Maiden

  11/01/2018

  Guest Post

  Claire L. Smith, Crime, Death, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Murder, Short Fiction, Story, Victim, Writer

• Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex

  Helen Barrell examines the lives of three apparently ordinary women: Sarah Chesham, Hannah Southgate, and Mary May. 1840s Essex became notorious as a place where women stalked the lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic, though much of the reported horror remains unfounded.

  Death and the Maiden

  31/10/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Arsenic, Burial, Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Essex, Helen Barrell, History, Investigation, Law, Lethal, Murder, Poison, Press, Punishment, Scandal, Trials, Victorian, Writer

• Sweet Fanny Adams

  

  On this day 149 years ago, eight year old Fanny Adams was brutally murdered by Frederick Baker, a 29 year old solicitor’s clerk. Her grave still stands in Alton Cemetery, adorned lovingly with teddies, tea lights and flowers. Perhaps her name is familiar to you. Maybe you have heard the phrase “Sweet Fanny Adams” or “Sweet…

  Death and the Maiden

  24/08/2016

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Alton, Alton Cemetery, Burial, Cemetery, Child Death, Child Murder, Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, England, Expression, Grave, Hampshire, History, Murder, Saying, Sweet FA, Sweet Fanny Adams

• Leila & Mary Rachel Bryan

   Driven by a need to unravel mysteries, particularly those that require some dissection of human behavior, Jennifer Darling embarked on her latest project: And They Were. Profiling cases involving missing persons, unidentified remains, and other “cold” investigations as well as providing a means to satisfy her curiosity. For Death & the Maiden, Jennifer presents the disappearance of…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/06/2016

  Guest Post

  And They Were, Cold Cases, Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Investigation, Leila & Mary Rachel Bryan, Missing, Missing Women, North Carolina, Unsolved Cases

• The Crime Museum Uncovered

  Yesterday, after six months this long awaited exhibition at the Museum of London came to an end. With plans for New Scotland Yard to close the future of the Metropolitan Police’s infamously known “Black Museum” is uncertain. This carefully curated exhibition allowed the public to experience a selection of the items found inside. Many still…

  Death and the Maiden

  10/04/2016

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Ethics, Exhibits, Forensic, History, Investigation, London, Metropolitan Police, Murder, Museum, Museum of London, Object Biography, Objects, Public Display, Society, The Crime Museum, Weapons

• Murder She Crafted

  Dolly Stolze introduces Frances Glessner Lee, a pop culture inspiration who many believe was the inspiration for Jessica Fletcher, the crime-solving mystery novel author in Murder She Wrote. Lee’s Nutshell Studies also inspired an episode of CSI where miniature crime scenes were left behind by a serial killer as clues. Lee is known as the…

  Death and the Maiden

  04/05/2015

  Guest Post

  Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Design, Doll House, Dolls, Forensic, Frances Glessner Lee, Gender Roles, Investigation, Legal Medicine, Murder, Police, The Nutshell Studies, Unexplained Death, Violent Death