Episode 016: John Jones: The Young Pickpocket of Holborn

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-08-31

Send us your Feedback John Jones is barely a man when he stumbles into the trade that will define him. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals recounts, he is a boy raised with too much tenderness and too little discipline; a creature of idleness born in Holborn to parents who indulge every whim, hoping the flaws will simply fall away with age. They never do. Refused by every honest trade and cut off by his own family, Jones drifts into a London underworld where true crime begins not with malice but with boredom, poverty...