39: Matricide in 1895 London w/ Kate Summerscale - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling UK author Kate Summerscale joins me to talk about her book, "The Wicked Boy". Two young boys, Robert and Nattie Coombs, conspire to murder their mother in Victorian-era London. While the murder is gruesome and sensational, an uplifting event years later gives hope that rehabilitation can have a positive effect on a young criminal's life.

The author's website: https://www.katesummerscale.com/

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0:30.0	Welcome to the Most Notorious Podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes. You can follow me at Most Notorious
0:50.5	One on Twitter and on my Most Notorious page on Facebook as well for advance information
0:56.6	on upcoming guests by the way. So I'm traveling across the pond today and so excited to be speaking
1:02.6	to Kate Summerscale, the best-selling UK author who has just published her newest book, The Wicked
1:09.8	Boy, which we'll be chatting about today. Thank you so much for your time. This is a book about
1:18.8	a Victorian era crime, but you've written others from this time period as well, including Mrs. Robinson's
1:26.3	disgrace and the suspicions of Mr. Witcher. What draws you to the Victorian age?
1:33.5	I found it a very rich and intriguing period that in which lots of the institutions and buildings
1:44.2	and books that I that sort of fill my life are rooted there. So it's a period that feels could
1:52.0	fall away and strange and at the same time very familiar, very recognizable. And so to me,
1:58.9	that puts it at the perfect distance of being at once mysterious, but also something I have a
2:05.6	chance of understanding how people thought and felt and why people did what they did.
2:12.8	Let's start where you start in your book. Two young brothers from East London in 1895,
2:18.7	Robert and Nadi Kuhms, who suddenly find themselves alone. Can you talk about them in their situation?
2:25.6	What do they do and where do they go? Sure. They were two brothers, H-13 and 12. They lived in
2:35.6	East London, there's a far east of London, beyond Stittlefields and Right Chapel and the
2:42.4	Venus East End in a kind of new urban sprawl, a London river. And they got up in the morning of the
2:52.9	8th of July 1895 during a very hot spell in London, was a drought, and they set off
3:01.7	from East London to a cricket ground in the north west of London, towards Cricket Ground,
3:07.3	the most famous Cricket Ground in the country where the most famous Cricket in the day was playing
3:12.2	that day. And before they left, they gave their rent to a neighbour, explaining Robert the
3:18.5	older boy explained that their mother was away in Liverpool visiting family and their
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