Dickens for the Defense of a She-Devil in the Dock (In Stereo)
CLEWS The World's Worst Femmes Fatales - Season One
English - November 04, 2021 03:00 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBTrue Crime History true crime old true crime murder suspense literature Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
CLEWS takes you to the Old Bailey for the trial of killer Emma “Kitty” Byron, a beauty who stabbed a stock broker to death in broad daylight. The mandatory penalty for murder is death by hanging. It should have been an open-and-shut case. But Miss Byron is lovely, and her attorney is the son of Charles Dickens, who once said that some murders are highly popular. Will Dickens save her, or will Kitty swing?
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Drawing by William Hartley of Kitty Byron in the dock at the Old Bailey (1902) (cropped). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, from Jackie Keily and Julia Hoffbrand, The crime museum uncovered: inside Scotland Yard's special collection. I.B. Tauris & Co (2015).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty_Byron_in_the_dock.jpg
Photograph of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens in the public domain, from the National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia commons,
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