Author: jennifer pegg
Sunday, 03 March 2002 - 04:47 am |        |
hello everyone,
i am trying to find out a little more about the so called brighton trunk murder. all i know is that the trunk of a woman was found possible in brighton train station in 1887.
does anyone know anything else about it?
was the murderer caught?
jennifer |
Author: cue
Sunday, 03 March 2002 - 07:00 am | |
HI
There were two in 1934, first one unsolved the second one a man was tried and aquitted, but confessed 40 years later.
THE MAMMOUTH BOOK OF UNSOLVED CRIME
BY ROGER WILKES
The womans body was found in a trunk left at the station.
cue |
Author: cue
Sunday, 03 March 2002 - 07:53 am | |
Couldn't find anything from 1887 about Brighton trunk murders.
cue |
Author: Jack Traisson
Sunday, 03 March 2002 - 10:50 pm | |
Hi Jennifer, Cue,
There were actually two railway trunk murders in 1934 (Brighton and King's Cross Railway Stations), as well as the other case Cue mentioned, where a man named Mancini was acquitted.
The two involving the train stations have been dubbed by some as the perfect crime.
A brief overview of the Brighton Trunk Murders can be found at the MEPO site, here:
http://www.met.police.uk/history/mancini.htm
As for 1887, Jennifer, I have only been able to find one murder in Brighton for that year:
9.7.1887 10 Cavendish Street.
Sarah Wilton, aged 35.
"On the morning of the day in question, wheelwright William Wilton smashed his wife's head with a hammer and then slit her throat with a table knife. She was often drunk; they frequently quarrelled."
Which, as you can see, doesn't appear to be a trunk murder, and is, in fact, very ordinary.
Cheers,
John |
Author: jennifer pegg
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 05:43 am | |
thqanks everybody that would appaer to vbe the case from 1887 i refered to .it must have been a confused interenet site i was looking at that mixec this with the trunk murders.
jennifer |
Author: Monty
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 07:52 am | |
Jack,
Re Mancini,
Wasnt that the first time a photofit was used ?
And didnt he admit to it just before he died a very old man ?
Monty
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Author: stephen borsbey
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 12:44 pm | |
if anyone is interested in victorian murders
generally i recommend THE HANGMANS RECORD
which gives details of all murders from 1868 -1901 . very interesting details are given of each crime in each year. and the hangmans name plus
grisly details of the hanging.( sometimes it went wrong). dont read it whilst eating.
regards steve. |
Author: stephen miller
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 03:13 pm | |
Hi Monty
I don't know about the photo fit but Mancini did confess to the murder of Violet Kay in 1976 in a Sunday Newspaper
from steve
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Author: Jeff Bloomfield
Monday, 04 March 2002 - 09:07 pm | |
Mancini was defended at his trial by the great
Norman Birkett, one of the premier barristers
in Great Britain in the 20th Century. He was
acquitted, but years later admitted that he killed
his girlfriend accidently in an argument, and
panicked. He had a police record, and figured
a court might convict him of her murder. So
he packed her body up in a trunk, deposited the
trunk in Brighton Railway Station, and then took
a train for London. Tony figured he would get
lost among the teeming millions in London, before
anyone noticed anything odd about the trunk.
Imagine his surprise within a week when the
newspapers revealed the discovery of a woman's
body in a trunk at Brighton Railway Station. The
following day a second body was found in a second
trunk-that was Violet Kay's body. Tony was soon
arrested, facing charges in two murders.
If ever a killer deserved a chance to beat some
other villain with a baseball bat, it was Tony
Mancini. Jonathan Goodman wrote an essay on the
case - it seems that Scotland Yard did trace the
unidentified woman to a doctor in the Brighton
area who performed abortions (she was a less than
lucky patient). The Yard is very thorough when
it knows who is a criminal, and were carefully
laying its plans for the arrest of said doctor.
Unfortunately, a local detective decided to confront and arrest the doctor himself, without
clearing it with the Yard. What happened was
fit for a comic scene in a movie. Having confronted the doctor with "the facts", the doctor
took out a large address book, and in front of
the idiot detective called one ex-patient after
another - many of whom were upper crust ladies.
Within a day or so, Scotland Yard was informed it
would have to drop further investigation of the
unsolved Brighton murder, and stop bothering the
doctor. Eventually he was stricken from the
medical rolls twenty years later, but he was
pretty wealthy by that time.
Jeff |
