Episode 111: Cut Down
In this week’s episode, Kate and Paul head across the pond to 1922 London, England where a married couple leaves the theatre and one of them doesn't make it home alive. After an investigation into the crime scene and their personal lives, some aspects become hard to overlook.
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Sources:
A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence and the Execution of Edith Thompson, by Laura Thompson (No relation)
https://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Murders-Innocence-Execution/dp/1681778718
“Midnight Murder at Ilford” (The Daily Telegraph, October 5, 1922)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/804992750/?match=1&terms=Ilford%20stab
“A Distraught Woman, Wife Charged With Murder in Ilford Case” (Hull Daily Mail, October 6, 1922)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/794148666/?match=1&terms=%22Edith%20Thompson%22%20Bywaters
“Mystery of Unseen Hand Murder” (The Sunday People, October 8, 1922)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/940948130/
“Bywaters & Mrs. Thompson Sentenced to Death” (Taunton Courier, Bristol and Exeter Journal and Western Advertiser, December 13, 1922)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/811907294/?match=1&terms=%22Edith%20Thompson%22%20Bywaters
“Edith Thompson: Commission to re-examine hanged woman's case” by Tim Stokes (BBC, March 7, 2023)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64879662
“Edith Thompson: Hanged woman's case denied pardon bid“ by Tim Stokes (BBC, February 28, 2024)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68412921
“Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover's crime” by Tim Stokes (BBC, January 9, 2023)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245
“Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters” (Capital Punishment U.K.)