430: The Thames Torso Murders Revisited w/ Suzanne Huntington

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

History, True Crime, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Suzanne Huntington, co editor of Ripperologist Magazine and author of the recently published book "The Thames Torso Murders: Fact or Fiction?" She not only talks about the “Canonical Four” Thames Torso murders and the possible killer (or killers), but she also takes a wider look at Victorian era dismemberment cases in and around London, the challenge of separating fact from long repeated myth, and the ways these crimes have been linked (rightly or wrongly) to the Whitechapel murders and Jack the Ripper. It is a fascinating deep dive into one of the most unsettling murder series of the late 19th century. The author's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Thames-Torso-Murders-Fact-or-Fiction-61565822546574/ The author's US Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Suzanne-Huntington/author/B0GHT5B8TK The author's UK Amazon page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Suzanne-Huntington/author/B0GHT5B8TK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.5	Welcome all to another episode of the Most Notorious Podcast.
0:33.0	I'm Eric.
0:34.3	So I'm sure you remember.
0:36.9	It wasn't all that long ago last fall that I interviewed Sarah Bax Horton about the Thames torso murders.
0:45.3	Another book has recently been published on the subject, and it was not known to me until Tom Westcott, Jack the Ripper expert.
0:55.8	And my interview with him, by the way,
1:01.7	years and years ago is one of the top five most listened to interviews I've ever conducted.
1:08.7	It was he who suggested that my guest and I speak together, and I'm very excited to revisit this endlessly fascinating series of murders with another very reputable expert in the area of Victorian era true crime.
1:20.7	So off we go, and I hope you enjoy the listen. It is so great to have Suzanne Huntington on the show with me today.
1:53.9	She is a British author, historian, and researcher, and part-time librarian.
2:00.1	And I just want to say, for the record, I love librarians, one of the most
2:04.9	important professions ever to exist. And she's here to chat with me about her new book. It is called
2:11.3	The Thames Torso Murders Fact or Fiction. Welcome to the show. Hello. Hi. So you are a very well-established figure
2:22.9	in the riparology community. And I do want to mention off the bat to my audience that you are
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