Episode 009: John Meff: The Housebreaker Who Could Not Stay Away

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-07-13

Send us your Feedback John Meff is the son of French Protestant refugees who fled persecution under Louis XIV, raised in London with great care and bound apprentice to a weaver. He serves faithfully, marries, and then finds himself unable to keep his family alive on honest wages; it is poverty, not wickedness, that first pushes him toward housebreaking, a trajectory recorded in Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals with the unsentimental clarity that makes it one of the earliest works of true crime writing we possess. What follows is a life of compounding misfortune...