Episode 024: James Booty: The Young Ravisher of Holborn

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Send us your Feedback In the dim workshops of early Georgian London, a boy barely into his teens finds himself infected by a disease he does not understand, and in his desperate ignorance he becomes something monstrous. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals captures his story with the blunt clarity of a court record: a fatherless apprentice, left to the mercy of older hands, absorbing the worst possible counsel from the men around him. James Booty is no hardened criminal when his life begins to unravel; he is a child without capacity, as the old...