Murder & homicide · 1879 · Victorian

Kate Webster, the Richmond Murderess

In 1879 Irish servant Kate Webster killed and dismembered her employer Julia Martha Thomas at her home in Richmond, London. Webster was convicted and hanged; the victim's skull was found years later in the garden of a local pub.

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