#228 - William Bousfield and the Price of Fame
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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#228 - William Bousfield and the Price of Fame. In the early hours of Sunday 3rd of February 1856, William Bousfield, a part-time tobacconist and wannabe actor mercilessly murdered his wife and three children as they slept. But what could have driven this quiet little dreamer to slaughter his family?
- Date: Sunday 3rd of February 1856, between 1am and 3am (estimate)
- Location: 4 D'Arblay Street (was Portland Street), Soho, London, England, W1
- Victim: 4 (Sarah, Anne, Eliza & John Bousfield)
- Culprit: 1 (William Bousfield)
- Method: strangling and stabbing
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