The Chocolate Cream Poisoner 1871

Hello and welcome to Crimes Through Time, where I talk about snapshots of crime history.  In this episode, we are travelling back to 1870’s Brighton on the English coast.

Christiana Edmunds was in love.  The object of her desire Dr Charles Beard is tall, handsome and “extremely prepossessing of demeanour” - which is 19th century English for very attractive. But when Dr Beard ended their friendship Christiana made a plan.  A plan that would leave an innocent 4-year-old boy dead.