Murder Maps

On a hot summers day in 1934, a horrifying discovery was made in a trunk at the left luggage office of Brighton Train Station. Two days later, a similar case was found in Kings Cross Station, London. A major police investigation began which would take an unexpected turn in the search for a murderer.

As police investigated the disappearance of wealthy widow, Olive Durand Deacon, in early 1949, they could not have imagined the gruesome confession told to them by the man they had brought in for questioning.

In the summer of 1953, the world watched as Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. The day before the coronation however, a body of a teenage girl was found floating in the River Thames, and another would surface just days after.

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain. Her act of murder divided the nation, the repercussions of which were far reaching and would affect great change in the judicial system that condemned her.