The Mysterious Murder of Mary Jane Bennett
Dark Histories
Ben Cutmore
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In Victoria, England, the press were never shy of calling a crime the sensation of the century, or a murder the most astonishing the world has ever seen. |
| 0:10.0 | When the body of a young woman showed up on the beach of a popular seaside resort town, |
| 0:14.8 | no one would have imagined that it would provoke just such proclamations. |
| 0:18.8 | As the story unraveled, and the winding and at times explosive court case drew on however it became clear that not |
| 0:26.2 | only would it provoke such headlines but it would also be entirely worthy of many of them. This is Dark Histories, and the facts are worse than fiction. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, welcome to Dark History Season 8, episode 6. I'm the host Ben. |
| 0:45.0 | Today we're going to be going back to the Victorian times as, you know, quite common in these parts, |
| 0:51.0 | but we're going back to the very edge of the Victorian so the turn of the |
| 0:55.9 | 20th century 1900 and we're going to be able to look at a sort of true crimey mystery kind of affair. So let's just jump straight into it because I don't |
| 1:06.0 | think I have much news to speak of so let's just go straight into it. This episode is |
| 1:11.5 | called the mysterious murder of Mary Jane Bennett. |
| 1:15.0 | On the far eastern coast of England, 130 miles northeast of London, the coastal town of Great Yarmouth, with its long |
| 1:25.2 | sandy beaches has long been a getaway resort for people from the capital and across the country. |
| 1:31.1 | A relatively bustling medieval fishing and shipbuilding port, the town saw renewed growth in the late 18th century |
| 1:37.0 | when the fashionable trend for visiting seaside resorts exploded. |
| 1:41.0 | And this continued throughout the 19th century, especially after the country's |
| 1:45.3 | rail infrastructure expanded to the town in 1844. By the turn of the century, the town had grown |
| 1:51.8 | from a North Sea fishing port primarily focused on an economy of |
| 1:55.1 | Herring and Mackerel to a bustling tourist resort. |
| 1:58.8 | Two piers were built in the 1850s, the Wellington and the Britannia stretched out across the deep sandy beaches, whilst |
| 2:05.1 | hotels, guest houses, sea water baths and public gardens sprung up along the promenade. |
| 2:11.5 | Visitors were able to rent a bathing machine from Whitney Cats, an enterprising local, |
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