You know it's the Romantic Era when a servant upon unexpectedly finding such a gruesome scene of mass murder still finds such flowery, poetic words to describe it.
@@edcrichton9457 Witness statement: "Oi gov there's been a right bloody muder on here!! Absolute horror this is no doubt the work of some foreign devil magic I say. . . " Newspaper editor: Hold my beer.
The most terrifying and upsetting part is the baby was still alive when she arrived. Was killed while she got help. If she’d been able to enter the house, she probably would have been killed too
Woa! Came to the commentsection bc of the discrepancy about the crying baby... killed with a hammer to me really sounds bery much like he ws still busy inside when the maid came to the door, otherwise: why stopp bashing when the infant is still crying?
Imagine the guilt she must've lived with (I'd've been scarred for life by the idea, however implausible, that I might've been able to at least save the kid if I'd only had someone with me/been able to get the door open when I first got there).
Confusing that the maid heard the baby cry, but the baby was also killed. Was the perpetrator still inside, the baby died later from injuries or what. A very chilling tale.
@amycox5733 it's a baby, if the killer was able to smash grown adults to death with a hammer, I'd imagine itd easily smash a fragile baby to death. Since the woman left and then came back, i do think its highly likely the killer was still in the house
Right? I mean if she got into the house she would’ve been dead too. That or if she had a little revolver and had gotten into the house maybe she could’ve saved the baby by killing the murderer
@@nyotauhura7412I think you know as a person whose read any law of nature, motion, or gravity ever, has a comprehensive understanding that it’s highly more likely for you to shoot a person in front you while pointing a gun in the direction in front of you rather than the pulling an uno reverse in motion and hitting you instead inside what was likely a mostly wooden or brick house
I just finished it!!! A very interesting read with lots of fascinating info on 1811 London, and the workings of police and justice (or lack thereof). Incredible stuff! I highly recommend😊
@@Weirdkauzthe book offers a few hypotheses and educated guesses, not so much about the why but more about who actually committed the crimes. I still thoroughly enjoyed it!
I like that she says "it's pretty gruesome so if you need to swipe away" like someone thought "oh, a serial killer, I hope this one is family friendly" XD
I appreciated the heads-up. I'm OK with it, but maybe someone else wouldn't be and that little warning gave their brains enough time to catch up with what they were watching so they could swipe away.
@@beth12svistbruh what? have you ever actually read any details of a serial killer case before? saying that there was blood all over the place and that two families were killed is not gruesome at all in comparison
I have a migraine, so my comprehension isn’t the best. Until reading this comment, I thought the _pub_ was named “John Williams” and the sailor was unnamed. Lol.
Actually im pretty sure the cross roads thing is because of the suicide, it's meant to be just as bad as murder so they prevented him from entering heaven
@tileuxbut they also believed that this prévented supernatural resurrection. Whether theh believed it to be zombies, vampires, ghosts, or anything else they treated this body as abhorrent.
@@kulgydudemanyoA lot of the supposed anti vampire stuff (because nobody even considered zombies until long after Frankenstein was written) is actually not. For example, the cages over graves is not to keep vampires from getting out, but graverobbers from getting in.
She didn't actually left. The murderer scaped through a back door that was later found open while she was banging on the front door and causing a commotion that brought the neighbor in to check what was going on.
@@StonedtotheBones13 They would care because they wouldn't know WHO was at the door. It could be a muscly butcher or the constables. Criminals usually don't like to take chances.
@@StonedtotheBones13 When you're commiting a crime and you hear someone knock you are also not gonna care whos at the door you're gonna finish and rush out as quickly as you can, because even if its not the cops someone making alot of noise is gonna attract unwanted attention
Yeah weren’t there six other bodies in the locale at the time that are to this day debated on whether they were truly the work of the Ripper or just copycats
Murders and serial killers really weren't that uncommon. There were witnesses to the Jack The Ripper murders who heard cries of murders but didn't do anything because "murders in Whitechapel were almost a nightly occurrence". That was just Whitechapel too. What makes Jack The Ripper so widely known is how it was done. Of the 5 canonical murders- 3 of them were committed minutes before the bodies were found, yet they 2 of those 3 had been mutilated and disemboweled, while also being done without much arterial spray. The letters also made them not just headline nationwide news, but news in New York, Berlin, and elsewhere abroad.
I remember hearing about this in a book that talks about people's fascination with murders, mysteries, crime, and the macabre. It talks about how a lot of that has roots in the Victorian era, with these murders and Jack The Ripper.
Victorians were obsessed with death and projected it onto everyone else. They called ancient Egyptians obsessed with death for mummifying their dead (in a climate where you don't fully decay anyway and where shifting sands means you can't bury them underground). And yet, the Victorians paid to see mummies being unwrapped, and sometimes even ate them!
@@demo2823 Well the desert was making mummies way before the Egyptians did. Also, Victorians would take pictures of people after they died and pose them like they were still alive. Since pictures could be expensive and a lot of times a death picture was the only one you had of a loved one.
@@EggandChrisunless the victims had something in common, besides being a quiet family, then the murders would have continued. Serial killers do not stop, or at least not for a long time, killing.
Could have been phantom cries too. New parents often hear their kids crying while they take a shower or are in the other room, rush to check, and their kids are perfectly fine. It happened every time I took a shower for the first few months after each baby I had, even if they weren’t even home. The servant could have been worried and imagined the cries. Or like the other comments said, which is some how worse than if the baby was already dead…
She could hear the baby crying before getting help to get in. The baby was dead by the time they got in. The murderer was still IN THE HOME when she arrived. If she had gotten in too soon, she'd have died there, too. She was mere feet from the killer.
During the Napoleonic Wars a monkey in a French sailor suit was washed ashore from a wrecked French warship at Hartlepool and was hanged by the locals who thought it was a Frenchman.
Would love you to do a video on Spring-Heeled Jack. That's another London criminal who was never caught, although the story maybe more of an urban myth than actual fact.
Jack the Ripper wasn't the first case of unsolved serial killings in London, but it was one of the first during a time of rapidly increasing literacy, being read about by people all over the world as it happened in newspapers, magazines and such. It was, perhaps, the first "true crime" case, which is probably why we still remember it.
There’s a historical fiction novel called The English Monster that features John Williams as a device to track various kinds of evils committed throughout English history that ends with him committing the Ratcliff highway murders. Worth a read if you’re into that kind of thing.
I agree on the audiobook, but not the subject. I would just love for her to read any non-fictional story, because I love to listen to her voice and the way she speaks.
Honestly thank you for the heads up to swipe, it's very appreciated. I love your vids but right now I'm not in the mood for gruesome real life history lessons 😅✨
I've seen many of your short videos, and this is quite possibly the most intense I've ever seen you! I swear, you've got the range and acting chops to be a real contender! BBC crime drama, anyone?
I love that “Buried at the cross roads with a stake through the heart”, want to bet it was a “bad case of suicide”, probably “the worst case of suicide seen that year”.
There was a “Torso Killer” (a serial killer who chops up bodies; sometimes when the victim was still alive) who was dumping body parts in the Thames at the same time as Jack The Ripper. I believe the Torso Killings when on for 13 or so years. Only a couple of victims were every identified. People weren’t nearly as fascinated with him as they were with Jack.
@JDraper hold up! Was Spike’s William the Bloody story based off this killer? Yeah they called him that for his bad poetry but this story sounds close to Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
not sure if anyone else has commented about the burial, but it stood out to me and i wanted to mention it. in witchcraft, a lot of spells call for burying/doing something at a crossroads, because it’s considered a space between life and death. i found this part from Wikipedia, “In Great Britain, and Ireland there existed a tradition of burying criminals and suicides at the crossroads. This may have been due to the crossroads marking the boundaries of the settlement coupled with a desire to bury those outside of the law outside the settlement, or that the many roads would confuse the dead.” it said they did this until 1823. i’m always intrigued by different forms of burial, so i hope this is interesting to someone else too.
why the babies? I don't condone murder in any way shape or form, but if you have to kill people, at least leave the children alone. I mean, there's a good chance that their life is going to be pretty much hell on earth without parents to look after them during that period of time, but FFS.
Thing is, if you're already deranged enough to murder like this, you very likely also don't have the empathy to care about children or babies when committing your crimes. Also sometimes people with mental illnesses will perceive the world in a strange way. My sister-in-law runs a housekeeping business for example, and one of her clients was a woman who listened to the voices in her head, and drowned both her children by driving into a river, because the voices said that they were not her children, but demonic impostors. That incident shook my SIL up so much that she stopped cleaning private homes and now her business only cleans businesses and new construction. The woman just had a warped logic on the world.
@@robertgronewold3326It's all the more reason mental illnesses and disorders need to be treated more appropriately, but it's really difficult to manage in even first world countries.
@@Daelyah as someone who struggles with mental illness (bipolar and an dissociative disorder) I understand this all too well. we don't do enough for people who are struggling like that in this country. we also need to end the stigma and realize that it's out of a person's control and they need therapy and medication. I had to commit myself to get the help I needed to finally see the right doctor and get the right medication and it changed my life dramatically for the better. I literally had to lie and say that I was going to end my life and had to create a fake plan and a backup plan in case the first suicide attempt failed in order to get any kind of help at all with my financial situation. it's not right.
This particular murderer was pretty gruesome. They didn't just killed the baby, but also an orphan kid working as an apprentice at the shop (the first family lived and worked at the same place). And he killed with extreme prejudice.
Interestly, I was just reading a novel by Alison Goodman, "The Dark Days Club" where these incidents were mentioned. Crazy to get this video in my feed now.
I remember crying so hard, when my mom found candy cigarettes in my bag. My childhood best friend and I had the same bag, took his home not mine. My father always warned my big brother he was 10 years older than me, that if he ever found him with cigarettes, he'd break his jaw with a wrench. My dad laughed his ass off when he got home, grew up hearing him tell those stories to coworkers, family members and even family friends.
They used to bury "all" suicides at a crossroads with a stake through the deceased's heart - if by "all" you mean criminals and poor city-dwellers. In the country someone would generally present (or manufacture) evidence of insanity which would lead to a verdict of _non compos mentis_ and a burial in the family plot. The difference is that in the country everyone knew each other and were generally unwilling to condemn their neighbours or their families; also, no one much relished the idea of digging up a rural crossroads that was probably already in bad enough shape. (I suspect the rural clergy's unwillingness to be involved in the barbaric practice also played a part, since they were the ones who had to wield the stake.) In my ancestors' churchyard a lone suicide victim is buried in the unconsecrated area normally set aside for stillbirths and other unbaptized souls; all the others are buried with their families. The deaths by suicide of rich and titled people (like Lord Clive and Lord Castlereagh) were always ruled as either accidental or a result of insanity; Castlereagh was exonerated to the extent that he was allowed to be buried in Westminster Abbey. It wasn't until 1823 and a riot over the crossroads burial of a poor suicide victim (who was, unlike Castlereagh, legitimately mentally ill) was the practice discontinued.
oh god... im not over the nightmare i had when i was a kid after watching a friend play clocktower 3. The kid falling trough the stair after being knocked by sledge just came back in my head while hearing that story.
This sounds like an old-fashioned setup. I can't say that he did or did not do it but that sounds like the plot of a cover story if I've ever heard one
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You know it's the Romantic Era when a servant upon unexpectedly finding such a gruesome scene of mass murder still finds such flowery, poetic words to describe it.
Newspapers had poetic affectation in that era.
Yeah probably her words were ‘aaaaaa, Mum, I want my mum.’
Or something of the sort, poor thing.
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Witness statement: "Oi gov there's been a right bloody muder on here!! Absolute horror this is no doubt the work of some foreign devil magic I say. . . "
Newspaper editor: Hold my beer.
I seen Servant and murder and immediately thought of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 😭
Her actually words were "Cor blimey gov' I needa bo'la' wa'ta".
The most terrifying and upsetting part is the baby was still alive when she arrived. Was killed while she got help. If she’d been able to enter the house, she probably would have been killed too
@@amycox5733 One way or another, it sounds like she + whomever just barely missed coming upon each other.
Woa! Came to the commentsection bc of the discrepancy about the crying baby... killed with a hammer to me really sounds bery much like he ws still busy inside when the maid came to the door, otherwise: why stopp bashing when the infant is still crying?
Imagine the guilt she must've lived with (I'd've been scarred for life by the idea, however implausible, that I might've been able to at least save the kid if I'd only had someone with me/been able to get the door open when I first got there).
Confusing that the maid heard the baby cry, but the baby was also killed. Was the perpetrator still inside, the baby died later from injuries or what. A very chilling tale.
@amycox5733 it's a baby, if the killer was able to smash grown adults to death with a hammer, I'd imagine itd easily smash a fragile baby to death. Since the woman left and then came back, i do think its highly likely the killer was still in the house
The baby was still crying when she got there. _The killer was still in the house while she was just outside._ That is horrifying.
Right? I mean if she got into the house she would’ve been dead too. That or if she had a little revolver and had gotten into the house maybe she could’ve saved the baby by killing the murderer
@@thebumblebeemovie3514she would have probably died anyway . You are more likely to die by the gun you carry for self defense than use it
@@DimT670What? Your comment makes zero sense. He has a hammer, and she has a gun.
@@chillmemes5865 Well gun nutter most firearms at that time were very unreliable and inaccurate and difficult to load and fire.
@@nyotauhura7412I think you know as a person whose read any law of nature, motion, or gravity ever, has a comprehensive understanding that it’s highly more likely for you to shoot a person in front you while pointing a gun in the direction in front of you rather than the pulling an uno reverse in motion and hitting you instead inside what was likely a mostly wooden or brick house
P.D. James, the crime writer, wrote "The Maul and the Pear Tree" about this case. It's her only work of nonfiction.
Thank you!!
Did she find anything about what possessed the killer?
I just finished it!!! A very interesting read with lots of fascinating info on 1811 London, and the workings of police and justice (or lack thereof). Incredible stuff! I highly recommend😊
@@Weirdkauzthe book offers a few hypotheses and educated guesses, not so much about the why but more about who actually committed the crimes. I still thoroughly enjoyed it!
Omg im so stoked to look this up. Thank you!
I like that she says "it's pretty gruesome so if you need to swipe away" like someone thought "oh, a serial killer, I hope this one is family friendly" XD
I used to kill my cereal every morning, even biting it and eating the bits …
I appreciated the heads-up. I'm OK with it, but maybe someone else wouldn't be and that little warning gave their brains enough time to catch up with what they were watching so they could swipe away.
Honestly, the description was particularly gruesome, even for a murder story, so yeah, I do appreciate the heads up.
In a manner of speaking, it was.
@@beth12svistbruh what? have you ever actually read any details of a serial killer case before? saying that there was blood all over the place and that two families were killed is not gruesome at all in comparison
I wonder how many British sailors called John Williams there were at the time, at least a couple 100,000 I reckon
I was gonna say, “that’s 100% a fake name”
Yes I thought so too
I have a migraine, so my comprehension isn’t the best.
Until reading this comment, I thought the _pub_ was named “John Williams” and the sailor was unnamed.
Lol.
Not to mention movie composers.
14,500 John Williams in UK in 1841 for reference, only 1 was a seaman.
I guess they had no other choice but stab a wooden stake into the heart of the serial killer to make sure he never came back as undead creature.
Actually im pretty sure the cross roads thing is because of the suicide, it's meant to be just as bad as murder so they prevented him from entering heaven
@@isadoravasques9302you are correct. All suicides were buried this way.
It's sometimes believed to pin a soul down.
@tileuxbut they also believed that this prévented supernatural resurrection. Whether theh believed it to be zombies, vampires, ghosts, or anything else they treated this body as abhorrent.
@@kulgydudemanyoA lot of the supposed anti vampire stuff (because nobody even considered zombies until long after Frankenstein was written) is actually not. For example, the cages over graves is not to keep vampires from getting out, but graverobbers from getting in.
You'd make an excellent audiobook narrator
She would!
Absolutely ❤
erotica 😻
If she could hear the baby crying, it wasn't dead when she got there but dead when she and the neighbor returned.
The killer was still in the house
@@melissaharris3389exactly. She was really lucky because if she was able to enter the house she would have been killed too.
She didn't actually left. The murderer scaped through a back door that was later found open while she was banging on the front door and causing a commotion that brought the neighbor in to check what was going on.
no shit
@@edisonlima4647 , excellent.
She heard the baby crying? He was there? Yikes!
My thought as well. Terrifying. The maid was lucky that she beat on the door and likely scared the murderer off.
@@robertgronewold3326idk how to tell you this but idt someone who just murdered a family would care
@@StonedtotheBones13 They would care because they wouldn't know WHO was at the door. It could be a muscly butcher or the constables. Criminals usually don't like to take chances.
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When you're commiting a crime and you hear someone knock you are also not gonna care whos at the door you're gonna finish and rush out as quickly as you can, because even if its not the cops someone making alot of noise is gonna attract unwanted attention
John Williams would go on to resurrect himself and produce some of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time
Isn't he still alive? Or should I rather say... *again* ?
speaking of music...
Maxwell eddison, majoring in medicene...
If you know you know just search up "hammer abbey road"
😂😂😂
And then there's the torso murders around the same time as the Ripper murders.
Yeah weren’t there six other bodies in the locale at the time that are to this day debated on whether they were truly the work of the Ripper or just copycats
@@kittyplayz1480yep! And all still remain unsolved.
Murders and serial killers really weren't that uncommon. There were witnesses to the Jack The Ripper murders who heard cries of murders but didn't do anything because "murders in Whitechapel were almost a nightly occurrence". That was just Whitechapel too. What makes Jack The Ripper so widely known is how it was done. Of the 5 canonical murders- 3 of them were committed minutes before the bodies were found, yet they 2 of those 3 had been mutilated and disemboweled, while also being done without much arterial spray. The letters also made them not just headline nationwide news, but news in New York, Berlin, and elsewhere abroad.
I remember hearing about this in a book that talks about people's fascination with murders, mysteries, crime, and the macabre. It talks about how a lot of that has roots in the Victorian era, with these murders and Jack The Ripper.
Do you remember the book's name? It sounds really interesting.
Victorians were obsessed with death and projected it onto everyone else. They called ancient Egyptians obsessed with death for mummifying their dead (in a climate where you don't fully decay anyway and where shifting sands means you can't bury them underground). And yet, the Victorians paid to see mummies being unwrapped, and sometimes even ate them!
@@demo2823 Well the desert was making mummies way before the Egyptians did. Also, Victorians would take pictures of people after they died and pose them like they were still alive. Since pictures could be expensive and a lot of times a death picture was the only one you had of a loved one.
@@rileylittleravenight be “The Invention of Murder” by Judith Flanders
@@IsaRican810 Thank you - I'll take a look at it 😺
Impressive that even after being buried with a stake through his heart he's be able to write such great film scores 200 years later.
It sounds like it was one of those things where everyone knows someone is effed up. Love that they called him Williams the wretched.
If the killings died with him (aka no third case) then it was totally him
@@falconeshieldor the perpetrator saw it as a chance to get away with the killings without suspicion
@@EggandChrisunless the victims had something in common, besides being a quiet family, then the murders would have continued. Serial killers do not stop, or at least not for a long time, killing.
I don’t understand how she could hear the baby crying if everyone including the baby was killed with a hammer?
I guess maybe the baby was still alive when she got there but had passed away by the time anyone actually got to it ?
Edit : spelling mistake
Probably still alive when she went to fetch the neighbor. The killer heard the servant, finished the job, and made a quick escape.
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Now I wish I never asked 😶
Could have been phantom cries too. New parents often hear their kids crying while they take a shower or are in the other room, rush to check, and their kids are perfectly fine. It happened every time I took a shower for the first few months after each baby I had, even if they weren’t even home. The servant could have been worried and imagined the cries.
Or like the other comments said, which is some how worse than if the baby was already dead…
Maybe they meant “all the adults or people who would be able to explain what happened”.
She could hear the baby crying before getting help to get in.
The baby was dead by the time they got in.
The murderer was still IN THE HOME when she arrived.
If she had gotten in too soon, she'd have died there, too.
She was mere feet from the killer.
Either this or she was the real killer
She is so gorgeous, and I absolutely love her voice.... Beyond perfect!!!!!!!!
During the Napoleonic Wars a monkey in a French sailor suit was washed ashore from a wrecked French warship at Hartlepool and was hanged by the locals who thought it was a Frenchman.
Fantastic story telling skills. The right combination of intimacy (I felt she was talking directly to me) and horror to bring it home. Bravo.
I'd like to see you do a full length video on Spring Heeled Jack.
Where do you store all this knowledge? Sometimes I forget what I've had for tea!
At least you remember to have tea?
Omg, I really want to watch a full documentary with you as the host!
John Williams…. Something to tell us about all of your years before composing?
Can’t ask him now, he has been very busy decomposing.
I hear they were quite... killer!
That's why his music is so dramatic
(I have no clue if his music is dramatic just pretend it is)
Would love you to do a video on Spring-Heeled Jack. That's another London criminal who was never caught, although the story maybe more of an urban myth than actual fact.
That's what I came here to mention. Now there's a weird story.
I love how good she is at telling a story
Another great if short video, many more please. Have a great day and stay safe,
Joe
J Draper could read me the phone book.
I was going to leave because I was bored but then she told us to leave if we where scared and I had to stay. I ain't no chicken!
This is so fascinating!! I have never heard of this case at all. How is this not more well known?! Thank you for sharing. ❤
I love every word you speak.
Fun fact he also composed Star Wars, and is an amazing classical guitar player
Technically speaking, the 1811 killer was probably not London's first serial killer either. Just the earliest that we know is recorded.
Jack the Ripper wasn't the first case of unsolved serial killings in London, but it was one of the first during a time of rapidly increasing literacy, being read about by people all over the world as it happened in newspapers, magazines and such. It was, perhaps, the first "true crime" case, which is probably why we still remember it.
I think the most interesting crime spree, to me, is the Whipping Tom cases. Just guys spanking women. Kinda strange.
How disgusting. Did they have their hands cut off? So they could keep them to themselves?
Still is assault. Strange by nowadays but still is assault
I hadn't heard of that. I'll look it up. Thanks!
Hey bro, no kink shaming 😅
Honestly, that would be really traumatic to have happen to me, but I also find that incredibly silly and I can't stop laughing
Thank you! Love your history lessons ❤
You know they are serious when they bury you with a stake through your heart. 😝
There’s a historical fiction novel called The English Monster that features John Williams as a device to track various kinds of evils committed throughout English history that ends with him committing the Ratcliff highway murders. Worth a read if you’re into that kind of thing.
I think you should do audio books on this sort of subject, I'd buy them mainly because I love gruesome stories 😂
I agree on the audiobook, but not the subject. I would just love for her to read any non-fictional story, because I love to listen to her voice and the way she speaks.
Honestly thank you for the heads up to swipe, it's very appreciated. I love your vids but right now I'm not in the mood for gruesome real life history lessons 😅✨
That is so horrifyingly gruesome 😢
And also the most interesting and fun thing I've heard today!
Fun?
I've seen many of your short videos, and this is quite possibly the most intense I've ever seen you! I swear, you've got the range and acting chops to be a real contender! BBC crime drama, anyone?
There is a series called Whitechapel that does modern retelling of some of the most gruesome London murder mysteries
@@christinec7892 I've seen that, and love it. But I'm thinking if something new was made, our wonderful host and narrator JDraper should be in it!
Thank u for the trigger warning! Much appreciate! It gave me time to prepare myself b4 taking ALL that on lol
I love that “Buried at the cross roads with a stake through the heart”, want to bet it was a “bad case of suicide”, probably “the worst case of suicide seen that year”.
Read The Maul and the Pear Tree by PD James and TA Critchley. It's about this. It's pretty darn good.
There was a “Torso Killer” (a serial killer who chops up bodies; sometimes when the victim was still alive) who was dumping body parts in the Thames at the same time as Jack The Ripper. I believe the Torso Killings when on for 13 or so years. Only a couple of victims were every identified. People weren’t nearly as fascinated with him as they were with Jack.
Day 8 of asking for a video on historic Dentistry
Dude, you do creepy stories really well.
The horrible twist is the serial killer only got in the house to do the dead because the maid left the door unlocked when she left for the errand! 😧
I hate to be asking for more details of a gory case like this, but do you have a source?
In fact her boss was working at the front store when she left.
Oh this? No reason, I'm just feeling FANCY 👌🤣🤣🤣
I'm still laughn, that was good 😂😂😂
I always thought the maid herself was a likely suspect for the first attack. I didn’t know about the second one.
@JDraper hold up! Was Spike’s William the Bloody story based off this killer? Yeah they called him that for his bad poetry but this story sounds close to Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I believe you relish in gruesome stories 😮 and would do more if you’d believe the audience would stomach it 😂🌷🤷♀️👍
Umm, how have I never heard this story before? Love these videos.
In perfect old timey fashion, violence is rewarded with more violence
not sure if anyone else has commented about the burial, but it stood out to me and i wanted to mention it. in witchcraft, a lot of spells call for burying/doing something at a crossroads, because it’s considered a space between life and death. i found this part from Wikipedia, “In Great Britain, and Ireland there existed a tradition of burying criminals and suicides at the crossroads. This may have been due to the crossroads marking the boundaries of the settlement coupled with a desire to bury those outside of the law outside the settlement, or that the many roads would confuse the dead.” it said they did this until 1823. i’m always intrigued by different forms of burial, so i hope this is interesting to someone else too.
why the babies? I don't condone murder in any way shape or form, but if you have to kill people, at least leave the children alone. I mean, there's a good chance that their life is going to be pretty much hell on earth without parents to look after them during that period of time, but FFS.
Thing is, if you're already deranged enough to murder like this, you very likely also don't have the empathy to care about children or babies when committing your crimes. Also sometimes people with mental illnesses will perceive the world in a strange way. My sister-in-law runs a housekeeping business for example, and one of her clients was a woman who listened to the voices in her head, and drowned both her children by driving into a river, because the voices said that they were not her children, but demonic impostors. That incident shook my SIL up so much that she stopped cleaning private homes and now her business only cleans businesses and new construction. The woman just had a warped logic on the world.
@@robertgronewold3326It's all the more reason mental illnesses and disorders need to be treated more appropriately, but it's really difficult to manage in even first world countries.
@@Daelyah as someone who struggles with mental illness (bipolar and an dissociative disorder) I understand this all too well. we don't do enough for people who are struggling like that in this country. we also need to end the stigma and realize that it's out of a person's control and they need therapy and medication. I had to commit myself to get the help I needed to finally see the right doctor and get the right medication and it changed my life dramatically for the better. I literally had to lie and say that I was going to end my life and had to create a fake plan and a backup plan in case the first suicide attempt failed in order to get any kind of help at all with my financial situation. it's not right.
This particular murderer was pretty gruesome. They didn't just killed the baby, but also an orphan kid working as an apprentice at the shop (the first family lived and worked at the same place). And he killed with extreme prejudice.
Interestly, I was just reading a novel by Alison Goodman, "The Dark Days Club" where these incidents were mentioned. Crazy to get this video in my feed now.
cool way to get buried
Just one more short befor bed
The short:
It's not a serial killer if only 12 days separated both killings
Too much Wikipedia
Mass murderer?
@@UnicornsPoopRainbowsspree killer
A very lucky servant girl. I bet she never balked at being sent on an errand ever again!!!
Reading Hallie Rubenhold’s ‘The Five’ was such an eye opener for me when it came to those poor homeless women of 19th century East London.
her voice is so soft i could ASMR this almost forget shes describing an act of brutality
Noooo 😢 I love John Williams he’s a great composer
I would watch anything this lovely woman records just hear her speech!
In royal circles everyone knows who Jack was
I just now realize that you get into character of the time period of the topic by dressing up in a costume of that era.
She's talking about a gruesome murder, and all I can think is how cute Ms. Draper is.
I feel like we dont put enough stakes in corpses these days. It costs nothing to be thorough.
Little did they know he would one day return to instead slay the musical chords for some of the greatest film franchises of all time.
Theory: the gentry were exploring the new fashions
"This one's pretty gruesome, so swipe if you need to."
No, madam, pour the gore.
The Battersea Mystery is another good one
The fact the killer was still there when she got back
Buried with a stake through its heart? Sounds like a good end for many politicians!
Cheers!
I think we need a longer video on this...
Good thing Margaret didn't get in until later. Sounds like he was still there if the baby was crying but dead by the time she got in.
I remember crying so hard, when my mom found candy cigarettes in my bag. My childhood best friend and I had the same bag, took his home not mine. My father always warned my big brother he was 10 years older than me, that if he ever found him with cigarettes, he'd break his jaw with a wrench. My dad laughed his ass off when he got home, grew up hearing him tell those stories to coworkers, family members and even family friends.
They used to bury "all" suicides at a crossroads with a stake through the deceased's heart - if by "all" you mean criminals and poor city-dwellers. In the country someone would generally present (or manufacture) evidence of insanity which would lead to a verdict of _non compos mentis_ and a burial in the family plot. The difference is that in the country everyone knew each other and were generally unwilling to condemn their neighbours or their families; also, no one much relished the idea of digging up a rural crossroads that was probably already in bad enough shape. (I suspect the rural clergy's unwillingness to be involved in the barbaric practice also played a part, since they were the ones who had to wield the stake.) In my ancestors' churchyard a lone suicide victim is buried in the unconsecrated area normally set aside for stillbirths and other unbaptized souls; all the others are buried with their families.
The deaths by suicide of rich and titled people (like Lord Clive and Lord Castlereagh) were always ruled as either accidental or a result of insanity; Castlereagh was exonerated to the extent that he was allowed to be buried in Westminster Abbey. It wasn't until 1823 and a riot over the crossroads burial of a poor suicide victim (who was, unlike Castlereagh, legitimately mentally ill) was the practice discontinued.
I wonder if the murders stopped after the man committed suicide
Who on Earth calls their pub "John Williams"?
Kyle Kinnane has a great joke about how he definitely doesn’t deserve a walking tour, rookie numbers😂
the guy who made the music for star wars was also a serial killer? amazing and diverse man!
Didn't watch but liked because of the warning! Thanks for that ❤
Wait! She said she could hear the baby crying upstairs! How was the baby killed but crying?!?😰🖤
She arrived while it was still inside…
oh god...
im not over the nightmare i had when i was a kid after watching a friend play clocktower 3.
The kid falling trough the stair after being knocked by sledge just came back in my head while hearing that story.
the fact be tried to self segregate himself from civilization, by joining the Navy!?
i hope there is more info about dude!?
The TV series Whitechapel did a season with these murders as the inspiration. It was pretty cool. Very atmospheric
@@WillemPenn agreed
I LOVED that show! So well researched, lots of little references. Shame about the end.
This sort of thing needs a full video.
Do you have any further resources on this? I’d love to learn more
I love that they used to make sure that whoever finds the body know that this was a murderer
I thought I had found a new rabbit hole and theñ realised these were the Radcliffe Highway murders. Kudos.
Wait a minute the servant heard the baby cry, but when going inside the babys was dead ?
There was another serial killer at the same time as Jack, he was tearing up bodies and leaving them all over London!
Dracula? Is that you? 😂
This sounds like an old-fashioned setup. I can't say that he did or did not do it but that sounds like the plot of a cover story if I've ever heard one
Your eyes..in every video, your eyes are so hypnotizing. You are so lucky to have such amazing eyes, especially for an online enetertianer. 💛
You should do remakes ofBeatrix Potter Intros and cartoons. Amazing!!
Ok, I'm ready for Bailey Sarien's take now