Under The Windsor Hearthstone

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Performing Arts, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The Murderous Journeys Of Frederick Deeming

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Episode 383 is another request from a listener Down Under, the story of a man who brutally murdered his wife and buried the body inside the house, then disappeared. Although they capture him at the end of Act II, Act III reveals an even more gruesome murder on the opposite side of the globe. He’s a slippery one, but he gets his comeuppance.

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0:07.0	Melbourne, Australia, March 4, 1892.
0:12.0	A murder completely enshrouded in mystery was brought to light late last night.
0:29.7	About 7.30 p.m., a report was made at the South Yara police station to the effect that decomposing human remains had been found buried underneath a hearthstone in the front room of a house at 57 Andrew Street, Windsor.
0:39.1	The stench in the apartment was intolerable,
0:42.6	and that the crime of a very diabolical nature had been committed
0:46.1	seemed to be beyond all possible doubt.
0:49.7	The messenger was Mr. J.W. Stamford,
0:52.6	the son of the owner of the house, Mr. John Stamford,
0:57.0	who carries on business as a butcher in High Street.
1:01.0	Sergeant O'Loughlin at once dispatched Constable's Webster and Kenneberg to the place indicated
1:07.0	to make inquiries and to unearth the remains. After about two hours' work with pick and shovel, the constables removed the hearthstone.
1:16.6	This done, they encountered a slate slab, which was cemented in.
1:21.6	It was held in position by a compact mass of cement, and underneath lay portions of the body of an adult
1:29.2	whose sex they were at first unable to determine. When they had broken up the cement and detached
1:36.1	some portion of it, they found that it concealed the corpse of a woman in an advanced stage of
1:42.2	decomposition. The body lay at a depth of 18 inches and had apparently
1:48.2	been there for some considerable time. From the ravages which time and the rats were responsible for,
1:55.7	it was difficult to ascertain the exact age, and the partially charred condition of the remains also prevented
2:03.1	the constables from ascertaining what the personal appearance of the deceased had been.
2:09.0	The body had been squeezed into a space about 18 inches wide by two feet six inches in length.
2:16.5	The knees were forced up over the abdomen. The left hand rested under
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