Pre World War II
| Year | Name of victim(s) | Location body found | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1752 | Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure | Appin | “Appin Murder”. |
| 1857 | Emile L'Angelier | Glasgow | His lover Madeleine Smith was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. The verdict was “not proven”. |
| 1876 | Charles Bravo | Balham, London | Known as the Charles Bravo Murder or the Murder at the Priory. Charles Bravo, a lawyer was poisoned with antimony: he took three days to die but gave no indication of the source of the poison. No-one was ever charged for the crime. |
| 1888–1902 | Emily Horsnail, Fairy Fay, Annie Millwood, Ada Wilson, Emma Smith, Malvina Haynes, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Mrs. Murphy, Annie Farmer, Rose Mylett, Elizabeth Jackson, Alice McKenzie, Rosina Smith, Frances Coles, Catherine Wohler, Mary Ann Austin, | Whitechapel, London | Murders and attempted murders mentioned in connection with “Jack the Ripper”. |
| December 1888 | John Gill | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 8-year-old John Gill's body was found in Manningham Lane in Bradford on 28 December 1888. His throat had been cut, his abdomen cut open and stabbed, his arms and legs hacked off and his ears removed. William Barrett was arrested for the murder but later found not guilty. Newspapers suggested a connection to the Jack the Ripper murders, but the doctors found no connection. |
| 10 February 1889 | Louisa Smith | Lewisham, London | Prostitute Louisa Smith was found in Algernon Road, Lewisham, with a severe fractured skull caused by a blow with a blunt instrument. |
| 1892 | Unknown Female | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Body parts of a woman found in the canal, at the Wilford Canal towpath. She had been murdered then cut up. |
| 1902 | Rose Harsent | Peasenhall, Suffolk | William Gardiner, a married man who was thought to be having an affair with the pregnant victim, was twice tried inconclusively and then set free. |
| 1905 | Mary Sophia Money | Merstham, Surrey | Body found in the Merstham railway tunnel. The autopsy showed a scarf had been thrust into her mouth and marks were discovered on the tunnel wall showing Miss Money had been thrown to her death from a moving train. |
| 1907 | Emily Dimmock | Camden Town, London | Known as the Camden Town murder. Prostitute Emily Dimmock was found with her throat cut. Robert Wood was accused and acquitted after a brilliant defence by Edward Marshall Hall. |
| 1908 | Marion Gilchrist | Glasgow | Oscar Slater was wrongfully convicted in 1909 and this conviction was quashed in 1928: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was prominent in securing his release. |
| 1908 | Caroline Luard | Ightham, Kent | Known as the Seal Chart Murder. Mrs Luard was shot in a summerhouse in the middle of a wood near Sevenoaks, Kent. Her husband was accused by some, and he later committed suicide in despair. Later it was suggested that murderer John Dickman, hanged for a shooting on a train in 1910, was the guilty party. |
| 1909 | George Harry Storrs | Gorse Hall, Stalybridge | Two men were tried but neither was convicted. |
| 1911 | Joseph Wilson | Lintz Green railway station | Railway porter Samuel Atkinson was charged but no evidence was offered against him. |
| 1919 | Bella Wright | Little Stretton, near Leicester | Known as the Green Bicycle Case as the victim was last seen with a man owning one. A green bicycle was found in a canal and its owner Ronald Light {1885–1975} traced. He stood trial, but was found not guilty of murder, thanks to the brilliant defence by Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, who had Light in the witness box admitting to every allegation made against him, except her murder. |
| 1920 | Mabel Greenwood | Kidwelly | Harold Greenwood (1874–1929) was accused of poisoning his wife Mabel with arsenic. He was acquitted at Carmarthen Assizes in 1920 after a defence by Edward Marshall Hall. |
| 1931 | Julia Wallace | Liverpool | Known as The Wallace Case. Julia's husband William Herbert Wallace was convicted, but this was quashed when he successfully appealed. Recent books have named a suspect. |
| 1931 | Hubert Chevis | Aldershot, Hampshire | Chevis was poisoned after eating partridge laced with strychnine. |
| 1934 | Unknown female | Brighton | Torso found in a trunk at Brighton Station. This is known as the Brighton Trunk Crime no. 1. See Brighton trunk murders. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Unsolved Murders In The United Kingdom
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