Flapper Fatale: The Murder of Edith Thompson, Part II

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Edith Thompson faces the death penalty for her lover’s crime. How many deaths will there be before this affair ends?

Sources:

Blackburn, Jack. “Edith Thompson: posthumous pardon over husband’s murder a step closer.” The Times. 7 March, 2023. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/edith-thompson-posthumous-pardon-over-husband-s-murder-a-step-closer-s729dpg0q

Lusher, Adam. “Laid to rest at last: Edith Thompson, victim of a ‘barborous, misogynistic’ death penalty.” 22 November, 2018. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edith-thompson-death-penalty-capital-punishment-hanging-miscarriage-justice-buried-mother-murder-bywaters-younger-lover-husband-grave-a8647636.html

Stokes, Tim. “Edith Thompson: The wife who was executed for her lover’s crime.” BBC. 8 January 2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-63561245

Thompson, Laura. A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson. (London: Pegasus Crime, 2018).

Weis, Rene. Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson (Leicester: Charnwood, 1992). And “Edith Jessie Thompson: A True Story of Injustice.” https://edithjessiethompson.org/

Documentaries:

Murder, Mystery and My Family and Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed, BBC.

Murder Maps “Terror in the Roaring Twenties” Season 2, Episode 1.
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