In January 1916 Edith married shipping clerk Percy Thompson. They bought a house at 41 Kensington Gardens in Ilford, not far from where both had grown up. Edith earned more than her new husband - and ...

Thompson (Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life) provides the definitive look at a British cause célèbre in this riveting and multifaceted study of the notorious Thompson-Bywaters murder, the first such ...

Many of us read to escape our own realities, to learn about the realities of others. Some of us write for the same reason. But then there are the memoirists, who write to discover themselves, and the ...

Edith and Percy Thompson were walking home from a night at the theatre when he was killed A panel has been told to re-examine the case of a woman hanged for the murder of her husband, two months after ...

Freddy Bywaters (left), the lover of Edith Thompson, pictured with her and her husband Percy Thompson in the married couple's garden in east London The case of a woman who was hanged 100 years ago for ...

As England‘s official hangman, John Ellis had dropped more than 200 souls into the world beyond the grave – a celebrated knight gone bad, a famous killer doctor, Irish terrorists who vowed that he ...

IT was a trial which shocked 1920s’ Britain; it was a court case which contained all the elements to spark a media frenzy - the unhappy wife who persuaded her lover to murder her husband. It took a ...

Longtime Santa Rosa resident Edith ”Tommie” Thompson Kishbaugh, 90, served her country in World War II as one of the first women WACs and then served her church and school communities for decades.

On 9 January 1923 Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters were executed for the murder of her husband, even though there was no evidence she knew he would be stabbed. Why was she convicted, ...