97 | The Great Coram Street Murder: The Unsolved True Crime Case of Harriet Buswell

On Christmas Day 1872, the body of 31-year-old Harriet Buswell was discovered in a Bloomsbury lodging house, her throat brutally cut inside a locked room. As detectives reconstructed her final hours, conflicting witness statements and rumours of a mysterious ‘German gentleman’ sent the investigation spiralling in the wrong direction. In this episode, we examine this baffling unsolved case that bears striking similarities to the later Jack the Ripper murders, and the tragic story of a young woman whose killer was never found.

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Sources:
 
National Archives, Murder of Harriet Buswell at Great Coram Street MEPO 3/111 and 3/114 Birmingham Mail - Saturday 28 December 1872
Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 29 January 1873
Tromp, Marlene. “A Priori: Harriet Buswell and Unsolved Murder Before Jack the Ripper, 24-25 December 1872.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web.