95 | The Wife in the Well Murder: The 1885 Botched Execution of Robert Goodale

Podcast: Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast · Prash Ganendran

Opublikowano: 2026-04-29

In 1885, in the Fenland village of Walsoken near Wisbech, Bathsheba Goodale was last seen alive with her husband, Robert. That night, he returned home alone, his trousers soaked and his boots thick with mud. He showed little concern when his wife failed to come back from the fields, and his strange indifference quickly stirred suspicion among the villagers. The discovery of Bathsheba’s body at the bottom of a well was followed by a murder charge, a trial, and a guilty verdict. Robert Goodale was condemned to death. Yet it was not the crime that would secure his place in hi...