The Murderous Life of Dr Thomas Neill Cream (Part 2)

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, a physician with a respectable facade, became one of the most notorious figures in Victorian London’s dark history. Under the guise of providing medical care, he secretly dispensed deadly doses of strychnine, preying on vulnerable women, using his sinister charm and cunning to both administer poison and run from the effects. For years Cream operated in the shadows, his victims spanning across countries, borders and seas, until his insatiable thirst for power and cruelty ultimately revealed the monster behind the doctor’s mask. PART 2 SOURCES Jobb, Dean (2021) The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream. Algonquin Books, NC, USA. Hodge, James H. (1994) Famous Trials v.5: Thomas Neill Cream, Neville Heath, John Watson Laurie, Dr.George Lamson, Rattenbury and Stoner. Penguin Crime, London, UK. Loudon, Irvine (1992) Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800-1950. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Gloucester Citizen (1891) Painful Story. Gloucester Citizen, Fri 16 Oct 1891, p3. UK. North Devon Journal (1892) Further Charges Of Blackmailing. North Devon Journal, Thurs 23 June 1892, p6. UK. Reynolds’s Newspaper (1892) Strange Cases Of Poisoning. Reynolds’s Newspaper, Sun 17 April 1892, p5, London, UK. Illustrated Police News (1892) The Execution Of Cream. Illustrated Police News, Saturday 19 Nov 1892, p1. London, 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Following a 10-year stint behind bars in America, Dr Thomas Neil Cream found himself free again,
0:07.4	free to return to his family in Canada and create a new life for himself.
0:12.1	Choosing to turn back to his old haunts in England, he found himself once again on the streets of Lambeth,
0:18.2	facing the houses of Parliament and the wild nightlife of the
0:21.2	red light districts. With a heady mix of strychnine, opium and morphine coursing through
0:26.6	his veins, it was not long before he was looking to the same streets to give him a new hobby
0:32.0	and a new outlet for his peculiar interest in poisons. This is Dark History's, where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:45.7	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 8, episode 24.
0:49.9	I'm a host as always, Ben.
0:51.7	It's good to be back on the mic, And this is our penultimate, I think,
0:55.8	episode for the season. And we're concluding the story of Dr. Cream from last week. So, yes,
1:04.3	let's get this rolling. Just a quick one before that. If you are interested in taking part
1:10.5	in Christmas campfire this year,
1:12.5	definitely say a little shout out to get those stories into me really as soon as possible.
1:20.2	The deadline, I guess, will be around about the 20th of December, but the soon the better,
1:25.4	already got a lot of stories and definitely enough for more
1:28.5	than one episode, which is really exciting as always. I haven't actually read many of them yet.
1:33.6	I sort of get the emails and I put them to one side because I like to save them for, you know,
1:39.2	for Christmas because I like reading them as much as making the episode and, you know,
1:43.4	I'm almost like a listener in that regard. So, you know, I'm looking forward to reading them as much as making the episode and, you know, I'm almost like a listener in
1:44.8	that regard. So, you know, I'm looking forward to reading them at Christmas time. So, yeah,
1:50.4	what I'll do is say deadline around about the 20th of December and then I'll make definitely
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