Love Turned Deadly: 8 True Crime Cases of Obsession, Betrayal & Murder (1856–1926)

Описание: Love Turned Deadly: 8 True Crime Cases of Obsession, Betrayal & Murder (1856–1926)
News of the Times | Episode 622 |1856 - 1926
Step into seventy years of true crime history, where love, jealousy, betrayal, and desperation collide.

Love Turned Deadly brings together eight extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian murder cases — each once a front-page sensation, each revealing the dark pressures that shaped 19th- and early-20th-century lives. From Parisian scandal to Irish courtroom drama, Oxford intrigue to notorious crimes of passion, these stories captivated their own eras… and continue to unsettle ours.

Tonight’s three-hour special is crafted for viewers who enjoy forensics, legal drama, domestic mystery, and historical investigation.

Expect obsession. Expect heartbreak. And expect revelations that feel shockingly modern.

Settle in — and explore what happens when affection twists into danger, and when passion ends not in romance… but in murder.
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04:56:06 – Case 1: The Paris Beheading Case (1856)
A Paris clerk is caught carrying the headless body of a young woman at dawn, sparking a citywide manhunt and Europe-wide shock.

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28:27:13 – Cases 2 and 3: Catherine Moore (1850)
An Irish wife trapped in a violent marriage stands accused of killing her husband — and her mother is charged as accessory.

Catherine Riordan (1890)
An Oxford romance turns to obsession, anonymous poison-pen letters, and a revolver shot that stuns the academic world.

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01:12:27:03 – Cases 4 and 5: The Preston Hotel Murder (1887)
A young couple bound for America check into a hotel — and minutes later, a single gunshot shatters every future they planned.

The Eastbourne Love Tragedy (1901)
Two teenage lovers are discovered shot behind a locked door; police must determine whether it was murder, a pact, or something darker.

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01:48:01:10 – Case 6: The New Cross Poisonings (1870s)
A doctor’s wife and her closest friend lie dead from prussic acid — and whispers, past deaths, and vanishing evidence raise disturbing questions.

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02:23:17:02 – Cases 7 and 8: The “Unwritten Law” — French Crime of Passion (Early 1900s)
A betrayed wife kills her adulterous husband and wins a shocking acquittal, igniting outrage across the Channel.

The Canterbury Shooting (Edwardian Era)
A wealthy Etonian sets a trap for his wife’s lover — a gunshot follows, and the courts are forced to weigh passion against justice.

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