VICTORIAN Britain was horrified by a 30-year-old Irish woman who murdered her employer,
dismembered the body, threw bits of it into the river Thames, boiled the head
(and other body parts) and sold the fat as "dripping" in local pubs.
She blamed two innocent men for the crime and when that didn't work, she
pretended to be pregnant so that the judge wouldn't give her the death penalty.
Such was her notoriety that Madame Tussaud's rushed to
create a wax statue of her which remained on display in London for 80 years. Read the story of the DRIPPING KILLER on CRIMEMAGAZINE.COM HERE
