Interview #63 | Investigating the Thames Torso Murders: Sarah Bax Horton Discusses Her New Book 'Arm of Eve'
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
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🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
I welcome true crime writer, researcher and analyst Sarah Bax Horton to the show in this interview episode to discuss her new book 'Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Killer'.
Jack the Ripper is often called the world’s most notorious unidentified killer, but he was not the first modern serial killer on the streets of London. Before him was another murderer who hunted from the River Thames – one arguably more sadistic and mercurial.
The Thames Torso Killer has always lurked in the Ripper’s shadow, despite the fact he murdered and dismembered at least four people over two years. He started to kill in 1887, over a year before the Ripper, and his last murder was in 1889, almost ten months after the death of Mary Jane Kelly, the Ripper’s last victim.
In Arm of Eve, Sarah conducts her own investigation and uses modern criminal profiling to come up with her own suspect – a known criminal who knew the Thames like the back of his hand.
Set to be published by The History Press on October 31, 2024, you can pre-order a copy here:
Arm of Eve | The History Press
***This interview was recorded on October 8, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to British Birds. |
| 0:03.5 | The Food Corry podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Okay, everyone, I am here with Sarah Bax Horton, a very special guest and author, |
| 0:24.9 | true crime writer, researcher analyst. I'm getting all of this from your literary agency, |
| 0:29.8 | by the way. Welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm interested in your, I want to say upbringing. |
| 0:37.0 | It's more your background, because I'm always interested in people that study English. |
| 0:41.7 | Because sometimes I do struggle with it. |
| 0:43.7 | Where does your love for English come from? |
| 0:46.4 | When I was a child, I was a total bookworm. |
| 0:49.9 | All I wanted to do was curl up and read anything and everything from Enid Blyton to Alfred Hitchcock, |
| 1:01.2 | who wrote detective books for children. And I suppose I had a lifelong love of English and it was a |
| 1:10.0 | subject that I was good at at school. I went to |
| 1:13.5 | boarding school and didn't always have a lot to do in the evenings and so on. But if I had a book, |
| 1:21.5 | I always had a companion and that's how it all started. In fact, when I was a child, I had my own magazine |
| 1:30.3 | that I did in my bedroom at home. |
| 1:33.9 | For some reason, I diluted black quink ink |
| 1:37.7 | so that I had grey ink. |
| 1:40.7 | And I wrote it out sort of newspaper style |
| 1:43.8 | and I did my own drawings and I called myself |
| 1:48.1 | Professor Horton. Needless to say, nobody read this magazine. I got ink on my duvet cover |
| 1:56.6 | and I was afraid that my father was going to tell me off. I don't think he noticed. |
| 2:02.9 | And that was just part of my creative writing, of which I did a lot at the time. |
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