Episode 003: William Barton: The Highwayman Who Could Not Stay Still

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-06-01

Send us your Feedback William Barton is born with restlessness in his blood. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, his father abandons him as a child, fleeing to Jamaica with a concubine and a hold full of goods; the boy grows up in his grandfather's eating-house, surrounded by comfort he cannot bring himself to accept. This is true crime at its most unsettled: a young man who cannot sit still, who trades a safe apprenticeship for the open sea and trades the sea for soldiering and trades soldiering for the road. Every...