Victorian Master Criminal - Hanrahan David C.
Victorian Master Criminal - Hanrahan David C. On August 2, 1876, a young policeman named Constable Cock was shot dead while walking "the beat" in Manchester. Charles Peace was Victorian Britain's…
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Victorian Master Criminal - Hanrahan David C.
On August 2, 1876, a young policeman named Constable Cock was shot dead while walking "the beat" in Manchester. Charles Peace was Victorian Britain's most infamous cat-burglar and murderer. A few months later, Arthur Dyson, an engineer, was murdered in his own backyard in Sheffield.
Katherine Dyson identified him as her husband's murderer, and as the police searched Peace was living a life of luxury under another identity in London. He was a complex man: ruthless, devious, dangerous, charming, intelligent, and creative. One of these murders became the most notorious and scandalous case of the Victorian age, with a tale of illicit romance and a nationwide hunt for Britain's most wanted man; the other was to become an infamous landmark in British legal history.
These two sensational murder cases would turn out to be tied together in a way that shocked Victorian society to its