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Tag: homicidal mania Victorian era

THE PLAISTOW HORROR: The Boy Who Slept Next To His Mother’s Corpse After Murdering Her

THE PLAISTOW HORROR: The Boy Who Slept Next To His Mother’s Corpse After Murdering Her

August 6, 2025 Weird Darkness Daily Weird Darkness Podcast Episodes

In the sweltering summer of 1895, two boys lived with their mother’s decomposing corpse for ten days while playing cricket and going to the seaside — a Victorian crime that shocked even the most hardened of London’s East End residents.

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