Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast

Board a plane with me and fly to one of the most beautiful countries in the world, forever bloodstained by the murders of at least 38 women by the South African Strangler, or, as I call him, the Black Ted Bundy. How did the injustice and brutality of apartheid contribute to a child growing up to shed the skin of his humanity and becoming a monster?
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Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
“This is For Black Men & Women Of South Africa” poem written by Prash
Character Voices: Nicholas Mannie, Prash and Ian
Special Thanks to Nicole from True Crime South Africa. You can check out her amazing podcast here:
https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/
Music:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/
Sources:
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/moses-sithole
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sithole-moses.htm
https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/blog-episode-9-the-abc-killer/
True Crime Magazine By Detective Monthly (hard copy)

Joseph Waller was born in St Mary Cray near Chislehurst, Kent, in 1857 and seemed by all accounts to be a perfectly ordinary child. He aspired to join the police force and went to London to become a constable with the Metropolitan Police, having no inkling that his dream profession would lead to his downfall.

In this episode, I’m bringing you a collection of short but grisly cases from the 1800s, which on their own would be too short for an episode, but they’re too intriguing not to share so I’ve put three of them together. Let’s go back in time for a whistle-stop tour of three crimes ranging from the brutal to the mysterious. If you’re looking for murders involving deceptions, an unscrupulous businessman who exterminated an entire family, an execution by guillotine, a strange letter, the death of a living scarecrow and more, this ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ episode has you covered with these bitesize blood-soaked crimes.
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Music:
"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Epidemic Sound Eternal Moment by Farrell, Wooten Trailing by Christian Andersen
Sources:
Bondeson Jan, ‘Victorian Murders’, 2017, Amberley Publishing
British Newspaper Archive
https://murderresearch.com/historic-serious-crime-and-victim-index/
https://historian416.rssing.com/chan-60133532/all_p3.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/Traupmannn.htm
https://thanatosarchive.com/2021/11/02/knick-family-murders-1869/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Traupmannn
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VKsOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-murder-in-manchester.html
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-murder-of-sarah-jane-roberts/

It was inevitable that George Joseph Smith would end up in jail one day. The only question was, how long would it take for his cunning crimes to be uncovered? George was a master of deception who swindled a string of lovers out of their life savings and ensured he was named as the beneficiary in the wills of his many wives. He had a curious obsession with the sea, and it was only fitting that his method of murder would also feature water...
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:

• My Website
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I’m an independent podcaster, so I would be extremely grateful for any one-off donations, however small. This will go towards maintaining and upgrading my audio equipment, podcast hosting fees and licencing costs for any music and voices I use in my episodes. If you would like to contribute on an ongoing basis, you can do that through Patreon, so please feel free to check out the link below and see what rewards are on offer in return for your support. Thank you!!
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap
Donate via Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap
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Music:
Coma Visions, Martin Klem Eye For Detail, Miles Avida Even If I Go, Jay Varton
Sources:
British Newspaper Archive
‘Caroline Beatrice (Thornhill) Davies (abt. 1880 - 1969)’, Wikitree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thornhill-700
Dorset History Centre, ‘Child criminals: young offenders in Victorian Dorset’, https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/documents/35024/285067/Learning+pack+-+Child+criminals+in+Dorset.pdf/5f965df6-c030-bf49-d506-2e7541c4c023#:~:text=At%20this%20time%2C%20children%20from,12%20years%20old%20being%20hanged
Goodman, Jonathan, ‘Seaside Murders: Thirteen Classic True Crime Stories’, 1985, Allison & Busby Honeycombe, Garden, ‘Murders of the Black Museum 1870 - 1970’, 1982, Hutchinson

We’ve made it to the end of a gruelling, terrifying, emotional journey through London’s East End in the Autumn of Terror of 1888. Thank you so much for joining me as we explored each of the Jack the Ripper murders and the historical context of the time. Now, we conclude by reviewing some of the key suspects in this mini-series wrap-up. Can we ever uncover who the perplexing, outrageous, shadowy figure really was – that killer whose nickname everyone knows, but whose real identity remains a mystery?
If you’d like to read more about Jack the Ripper, then please check out my book Jack the Ripper: Straight for the Jugular available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover formats. It contains extra information and illustrations which are not in the podcast series.
Click here for Jack The Ripper: Straight for the Jugular
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Credits: Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Thanks to Peter Bleksley, Philip Hutchinson, Carl Koppack, Erik Rivenes, Emily G. Thompson, Eileen and Charlie, Jenny, and Adam.
No part of this episode may be reproduced or copied in any form without the written permission of Prash’s Murder Map.
Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Adam, David, March 2019, “Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?”, Science Mag, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper
“A Victorian Mental Asylum”, June 2018, Science Museum London, https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Daley, Jason, March 2019, “No, We Still Cannot Confirm the Identity of Jack the Ripper”, Smithsonian Mag, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jack-rippers-dna-collected-shawl-though-doubts-linger-180971726/
“Dr Francis Tumblety”, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/francis-tumblety/
Evans, Stewart P., “Ex-Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and Jack the Ripper”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/spe3.html
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigat...