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The Brighton Express Murder: The First Criminal To Be Caught Using A Composite Sketch
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The Victorian railway boom transformed Britain, but it also opened the door to a new kind of crime. This is the shocking history of blood on the tracks—beginning with the notorious Brighton Express Murder of 1881. Uploaded 02-11-25 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 👉 https://bit.ly/3qTE0NR 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on YouTube! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Elean...
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The railways transformed Britain. From town to town and city to city the tracks spread. They changed the way we live forever. But there was a darker side to the advent of the railways. This technological revolution offered new opportunities
for the oldest of crimes. In this series, we'll be investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways.
Stories of the men who killed, of the police who hunted them, and of the victims who were left behind. From the files of Scotland Yard and the railway police,
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