The Slaughter podcast will be discussing topics that some listeners may find disturbing.

If you're still listening, shh, we're about to begin. Welcome to episode 29 of sorta.

I'm Lisei, joined by Emma, my co-host.

And you might not know it because last week I wasn't really in it.

But this week it's going to be a whole lot of me.

My person, I'm going to be looking at Herbert Rouse Armstrong and I literally picked him because I liked the name Herbert.

I like the name Herbert because it might be of solid fingers.

Now that's that creepy YouTube thing you made me watch, isn't it?

When I used to watch it, there was no YouTube.

I'm old school.

Herbert Rous Armstrong.

He was the only solicitor ever to be hanged in the UK. He was

convicted of killing his wife and suspected of murdering quite a few others. But

there is still a significant number of people particularly in his hometown of

hey on why who believe that he was an innocent man who was framed.

Hay on why? So it's a town it's with a ridiculously, it's literally on the border of England and Wales.

It's on why?

No, but you can see, if you go and Google, the line runs exactly down Hayamwise on one side so some people

lived in Wales some people lived in England directly on the border.

But Armstrong was born on the 13th of May in 1869 in Plymouth. His parents weren't hugely wealthy and he was educated by his two

maiden aunts, which I kind of felt like who, why does it matter if they had sex what's the point in

mentioning it but it's mentioned it is important for us to know that the people he

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