Annalisa Quinn is a contributing writer, reporter, and literary critic for NPR. She created NPR's Book News column and covers literature and culture for NPR.
Annalisa Quinn is a contributing writer, reporter, and literary critic for NPR. She created NPR's Book News column and covers literature and culture for NPR.
The Most Infamous Murders Of The Victorian Era Shutterstock
By Debra Kelly/Jan. 28, 2021 2:46 pm EDT
Murder is a strange thing. It s an act that to many is absolutely unthinkable, but at the same time fascinating. The idea that a human being sometimes, a perfectly ordinary-seeming person could take the life of another is so strange and yet so common.
And this is nothing new people have, of course, been killing other people since they figured out how to swing a club. Fast forward to the Victorian era, and killers were still killing they d just gotten much more creative.
While Jack the Ripper might be the most infamous of the Victorian era s murderers, he definitely wasn t the only one. The era was downright full of dastardly men and women, and some of them committed crimes so heinous they sound like something right out of a crime novel, or Netflix special. But they re not they re absolutely true, and even though they ve been overshadowed by the infamo