Episode 013: Richard James: The Highwayman of the Oxford Road

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-08-10

Send us your Feedback Richard James comes into the world already half abandoned: the son of a nobleman's cook, fatherless before he can remember, cast to sea at twelve years old. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals recounts his story, what emerges is a man shaped less by malice than by a relentless current of misfortune; a figure whose slide toward highway robbery feels almost inevitable, and who belongs to the long, dark tradition of true crime that stretches from Georgian England to our own restless fascination with outlaws. Captured by Spaniards, taken by...