Eliza Grimwood & The Lambeth Ripper

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In 1838 a violent murder took place in the Lambeth area of London that set a trend for the stories of the Victorian penny papers for decades to come. Inspiring Charles Dickens, who paid close interest to the case, supplying him with the details he would later adapt to in several of his murder scenes, it was a grim affair that made headlines for months whilst the murderer was blindly chased across London. But was it really an isolated crime or part of something much bigger? Murder, confession and conspiracy all manage to play a role in what would become known as The Grimwood Murder. SOURCES Somerville, Alexander (1841) Eliza Grimwood: A Domestic Legend of the Waterloo Road. B. D. Cousins, London, UK Bondeson, Jan (2017) The Ripper of Waterloo Road. The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK. Bracebridge, Hemyng (1851) Prostitution in London. Griffin, Bohn & Co. London, UK. Mayhew, Henry. Et al. (2005) The London Underworld In The Victorian Period. Dover Publications, USA. Ion, J.L. (1838) Post Mortem Appearances of Eliza Grimwood. The Lancet, Volume 30, Issue 772, P399-400, June 16, 1838. UK. Kelly, Debra & Cornick, Martyn (2013) A history of the French in london. University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of Historical Research. London, UK. The Morning Chronicle (1838) Murder and Suicide. The Morning Chronicle, Mon 28 May 1838, p.3. London, UK. Aberdeen Press & Journal (1840) Murder fo Lord William Russel. Aberdeen Press & Journal, Wednesday 13 May 1840, p.4. Aberdeen, UK. The Globe (1840) Re-Examination of The Valet Corvoisier at Bow Street. The Globe, 14 May 1840, p.3, London, UK. London Evening Standard (1840) Murder of Lord William Russel. London Evening Standard, 11 May 1840, p.3. London, UK. Edinburgh Witness (1840) Confession of Courvoisier. Edinburgh Witness, 1 July 1840, p.2. Edinburgh, UK. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In 1838, a violent murder took place in the Lambeth area of London and set a trend for
0:06.6	the stories of the Victorian penny-papers for decades to come. Inspiring Charles Dickens,
0:12.5	who paid close interest to the case, supplying him with the details he would later adapt
0:16.9	in several of his murder scenes, it was a grim affair that made headlines for months
0:21.9	whilst the murderer was blindly chased across London. But was it really an isolated crime
0:27.6	or part of something much bigger? Murder, confession, and conspiracy all managed to play
0:33.5	a role in what would become known as the Grimwood Murder. This is Dark History, where the
0:39.7	facts are worse than fiction.
0:46.0	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 6 episode 19. It's certainly getting colder
0:52.7	and the nights are drawing in, and we are getting to the very end of this season. I believe
0:58.3	there should be this episode and then two more, and that should take us up to about early mid-December,
1:05.2	which is roughly my birthday, which means it's Christmas holiday for me, and then we'll just be
1:10.2	doing the Christmas campfire episodes over Christmas. So on that note, two episodes left to remind you,
1:16.4	or three episodes counting this one, but yeah, get your story in for the Christmas campfire if you
1:21.2	wish to be included. Loads of people have been sending stories in so far, which is really exciting.
1:27.3	I think this is definitely going to be the biggest year. We've so far got at least enough
1:32.4	content for two episodes, but you know, why not more? So if you want to get involved, definitely
1:38.4	send your story in. It can be a big old winter evening festival of ghost stories and weirdness.
1:44.8	So yeah, looking forward to that. But yeah, if you would like to get it in, email me contact
1:50.1	at darkhistories.com, and basically everyone that sends stuff in gets included. So yeah, don't worry,
1:56.4	sometimes to get emails from people say, oh, you know, I'm not sure if this is really good enough,
2:00.6	and then they tell a story and it's great. So yeah, of course, if you take the time to write your
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