Murder & homicide · 1811 · Pre-Victorian

The Ratcliff Highway Murders

In December 1811 two households in Waddington Street and Timothy Street in London's East End were brutally killed. The perpetrator, John Williams, was arrested but hanged himself before trial; he was paraded through the streets after death.

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