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97 | The Great Coram Street Murder: The Unsolved True Crime Case of Harriet Buswell

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

Opublikowano: 2026-07-04

On Christmas Day 1872, the body of 31-year-old Harriet Buswell was discovered in a Bloomsbury lodging house, her throat brutally cut inside a locked room. As detectives reconstructed her final hours, conflicting witness statements and rumours of a mysterious ‘German gentleman’ sent the investigation spiralling in the wrong direction. In this episode, we examine this baffling unsolved case that bears striking similarities to the later Jack the Ripper murders, and the tragic story of a young woman whose killer was never found. 📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten...