Episode 021: John Thomson: Sailor Turned Highway Robber

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

Send us your Feedback John Thomson grows up in London among dishonest company, learning the taste of easy money before he ever learns a trade. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals records how this weaver's apprentice abandons his loom for the sea, where years of plunder and bloodshed remake him into something harder than the boy who left the shore. When Thomson finally returns to land, the violence he has absorbed does not stay at sea. His story is the kind of true crime account that reveals how a man's character can curdle slowly, shaped...