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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2064
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 2:01 pm: | 
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Having just stumbled by chance on a most extraordinary case of mutilation and murder from 1891, I thought it politic to share the case with others.
A young girl of 5 or 6 is the poor victim, she is brutally murdered, and then stripped, and then mutilated by the young man with a penknife, who it seems actually carves patterns into her body with the said knife, and then with the connivance of his mother, the body is bundled up and dumped elsewhere.
As the case unfolds there are dramatic insights into how the police and police surgeons of the LVP reacted to such brutal cases, and their fair knowledge of forensic detail is well worth the study.
It is a very sad case, but I think dramatically highlights the ’killing’ mood of the LVP.
The sad tale kicks off in The Times on June 13th 1891. |
Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 643
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 8:22 pm: |
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Hi Stan,
That is the case of William Lewis Turner of Leeds, for killing Barbara Waterhouse. He was executed for it, and his mother sentenced to prison as an accomplice. Turner was also suspected of another child murder, of a boy named Johnny Gill in Bradford in 1891, but nothing was proved.
Jeff |
Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 644
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 8:23 pm: |
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Sorry A.P., I got my greetings confused.
Jeff (the sometimes unconscious). |
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