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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

Victorian Teen Who Murdered Her Baby Brother

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 1860 Britain was rocked by the brutal murder of 3-year-old Francis Kent inside his family home. Scotland Yard sent their finest but when a teenage sister, Constance Kent, was accused there was outcry. How could a well-mannered young lady be guilty of murder? It was a crime against class and gender to suggest such a thing. The detective was sent packing, but was he right all along?


Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story this week.


Edited by Tomos Delargy, produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Warner Brothers and Salem's Lot, the spine-tingling new horror film from the legendary Stephen King.

0:09.1

It is so exciting, it is that time of year. It is spooky season.

0:13.0

Oh, it's just the best time of year.

0:15.0

No surprise that we love this time of year, of course.

0:19.0

There is no better fit for this season than a good horror film.

0:22.0

Salem's lot is one of Stephen King's

0:25.1

favorite stories, I'm sure you've heard of it, and it's adapted from the 1975 best-selling

0:30.0

novel. Salim's Lot follows an author who returns to his hometown in Maine, but things are not as they should be. The place is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

0:42.1

Of course it is.

0:43.0

Why wouldn't it be the place is called Salem?

0:45.0

Salem's lot is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller.

0:49.0

From the creators of the record-breaking horror franchise, The Conjuring Universe.

0:53.0

So take yourself, your mom, your romantic date, or just a pillow to hide behind to see this

0:59.6

after dark endorsed vampire movie.

1:02.3

Salem's lot in cinemas October 11th.

1:05.0

It was the night of the 29th of June 1860 and Francis Savile Kent lay fast asleep following a day of tantrums, chaos and play. For such is the obdured schedule of any three-year-old boy.

1:27.6

Little Francis, or Sabl, as he was known, lived with his large well-to-do family in the pretty English village of Road in Wiltshire.

1:36.2

All was still that night, and the house ticked and turned as it might on any other night. The world outside was kept at bay by the high walls and

1:45.8

iron gates that separated the family from any potential intruders. The only unusual aspect

1:52.1

of life at the Road Hill House that night was that at some point after midnight the family dog barked.

1:59.0

The following morning then, Elizabeth Gough, the family nursemaid, made her way to the nursery

2:05.2

to rouse her second youngest charge, Sable, only to discover his cot was empty. Now later Elizabeth would recall a specific and chilling detail of this scene,

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