Dr Nell Darby

Dr Nell Darby is a crime historian and writer, and the presenter of the CBS Reality series Murder by the Sea. Her latest book is Sister Sleuths: Female Detectives in Britain (Pen & Sword History, 2021)

Newspaper cutting of Bessie Earle

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Battersea Flat Murder. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The newly-completed Central Criminal Court in the City of London, known as the Old Bailey.

Historical Cold CasesThe Murder Of ‘Madame X’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Hoxton Horror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe parents who never recovered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Sophia Money's brother, Robert Henry Money, is believed to have been the murderer 'Robert Hicks Murray'

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Money Murders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An artist’s impression of Frances Saunders printed in an edition of the Weekly Dispatch, in which she was incorrectly named ‘Mrs Francis’

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe strange case of 'Mr Francis'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from 'Le Petit Parisien', 1891.

Historical cold casesMurder in the year of the Ripper. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical cold casesThe mystery of the vanishing widow. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

Historical cold cases with Nell DarbyThe mystery of Miss Lamond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.