289: What Happened to the Princes in the Tower? A New Suspect w/ M.J. Trow

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1483 Edward and Richard, sons of the deceased King Edward IV, disappeared from the Tower of London, where they were being held by the recently crowned Richard III. There are countless theories about their fate. Some believe that were secretly whisked away and survived into adulthood. Some are convinced that Richard III had them murdered, a theory perpetuated by Sir Thomas More and William Shakespeare. But other suspects linger in the background as well.

My guest, M.J. Trow, believes he knows who killed the Princes in the Tower, and he shares his thoughts on this week's episode of Most Notorious. His book is called "The Killer of the Princes in the Tower: A New Suspect Revealed".

For more on M.J. Trow's books, visit his Amazon page here.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to another episode of the most notorious
0:29.9	podcast. I'm Eric Rivenes. Welcome back. A new week, a new interview. It is so great to have MJ
0:37.9	Troll back with me again. A prolific author who has written over a hundred books, including
0:43.7	fiction and nonfiction. And I'm sure you'll remember him from a few weeks back when he spoke so
0:50.0	eloquently about the alleged murder of Christopher Kit Marlow, the Elizabethan playwright. And he is
0:57.8	here in his second most notorious interview to talk about his book called The Killer of the
1:04.1	Princes in the Tower. A new suspect revealed. Thank you so much for for joining me a second time.
1:13.7	So this is a mystery that has been studied, debated for over 500 years now. Why do you think people
1:22.4	are still so interested in the fate of these two boys? Well, to begin with, I think it's the coldest
1:30.8	of cold cases. I think we're all fascinated by the cold case idea about going back to a
1:38.2	crime that happened years ago, in this case centuries ago, especially where there's no answer.
1:45.0	And trying to evaluate just what the hell went on. It's easy, of course, with hindsight to see where
1:53.8	investigations went in a wrong direction where assumptions were made. And in the case of the
2:01.1	princes, why no murderer was ever identified. The other angle, of course, is that everybody thinks that
2:09.8	the case was solved, that the murderer is which of the third, because William Shakespeare said so,
2:17.2	and therefore end of story. And it's not that simple at all. Right. So where are we in British
2:25.9	history when this all takes place? Sure, yeah, we're talking about the 15th century,
2:33.4	which relative to today was a very bloody time indeed. It's the period that's known in
2:40.8	England as the Wars of the Roses. We have two rival families in the English aristocracy,
2:48.3	the House of York and the House of Lancaster. Traditionally, the House of York kind of white
2:54.4	rose was their badge, and Lancaster had a red rose, hence, the rose of the roses. The problem was that
3:03.2	King at the start of all, this was Henry VI, who became King when he was nine months old.
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