Tag: #Murder
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The Hammersmith Ghost Murder: When Fear Killed an Innocent Man
How superstition, panic, and mistaken belief led to one of England’s strangest murder trials On a freezing January night in 1804, a man walking home from work was shot dead in a London lane. His name was Thomas Millwood. He was twenty-nine years old. A bricklayer by trade. He wore white trousers and a white…