The county of Essex has rolling arable farmland, Epping Forest,
sleepy villages, busy market towns and secluded backwaters - a wide
variety of settings for murder. This selection of crimes uncovers
not only famous cases, but also previously unpublished dramatic and
tragic tales. The accounts included here come from a time when
murder was a capital offence, carrying the ultimate penalty for the
perpetrator, and when the difference between a verdict of innocence
or guilt rested on a single piece of evidence, or the skill of the
barrister in defence. Linda Stratmann has used original trial
transcripts, material from local and national archives,
contemporary accounts and the memoirs of pathologists, police and
those in the legal profession in the course of her extensive
research into crimes that have shocked the county. The killings
explored date from as far back as the eighteenth century when the
smuggler 'Colchester Jack' shot a confederate in the stomach in a
row over stolen goods. They also include the case of a
nineteenth-century female poisoner from Clavering and the brutal
murder of a taxi driver in 1943 by two US servicemen at Birch.
Supported by contemporary illustrations, "Essex Murders" reveals
that behind the county's peaceful facade lies a murky criminal
heritage.
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