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Back to SearchEpisode 013: Richard James: The Highwayman of the Oxford Road
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Richard James comes into the world already half abandoned: the son of a nobleman's cook, fatherless before he can remember, cast…
2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 012: John Dykes: The Gambler Turned Highwayman
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John Dykes cannot stop gambling. It is this single compulsion; documented in Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals; that drags …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 011: William Casey: The Soldier Accused of Robbery in the Park
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William Casey is barely out of boyhood when military life delivers him into the world of violence and accusation that defines hi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 010: John Wigley: The Lone Highwayman of Finchley Common
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A plasterer by trade, John Wigley abandons honest work early and slides into what Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals calls '…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 009: John Meff: The Housebreaker Who Could Not Stay Away
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John Meff is the son of French Protestant refugees who fled persecution under Louis XIV, raised in London with great care and bo…
3 months ago
Episode 008: John Winship: The Young Highwayman of Covent Garden
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He is seventeen, an apprentice carpenter in Covent Garden, and he has just noticed a young woman standing in a doorway. In Lives…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 007: Matthew Clark: The Cowardly Footpad Who Turned Killer
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Matthew Clark is the kind of figure who makes true crime so unsettling: not a mastermind, not a hardened villain, but a lazy, co…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 006: Walter Kennedy: The Aspiring Pirate of Wapping
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Walter Kennedy grows up at Pelican Stairs in Wapping, the son of an anchor-smith, a boy with every reason to follow his father i…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 005: Barbara Spencer: The Young Coiner of Cripplegate
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Barbara Spencer is barely out of childhood when the world begins to shape her into something dangerous. Raised without restraint…
4 months ago
Episode 004: Robert Perkins: The Disinherited Baker Turned Thief
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Robert Perkins grows up in Hertfordshire as the son of a prosperous innkeeper, but prosperity does not protect him. After his mo…
4 months, 1 week ago