Throughout history there have been news of many serial killers .In Lifestyle we have talked about some of them like Henri Desire Landru, the Bluebeard of Paris or The charitable killer who He made sausages with his victims.On this occasion we want to approach George Joseph Smith , since his case is important because it was one of the first in which the "premeditation" could be added to the crime Being able to demonstrate the similarity between related crimes.Share with us the case of Brides of the Bano Killer.
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George Joseph Smith was born in 1872 in Bethnal Green in Great Britain .His father who was an insurance agent died when he was very young.He was educated in the street and He was sent to a reformatory at the age of 9.By leaving the center, theft and the scam were his way of life.
He soon discovered, like Henri Desire Landru, that cheat women and stealing their savings was an easy way to earn money .Unlike the Frenchman who killed his victims before marrying them, Smith married women He changed his name and remarried.His first marriage, the only valid one, was in 1898 with Caroline Beatrice Thornhill .She was a domestic employee and robbed her employers for him.They served their sentence and she left Canada to emigrate to Canada.She had married with another woman in 1899 becoming bigamo .From that moment, Smith was bigamo multiple .In 1908, Smith married Florence Wilson , a widow of Worthing who emptied the savings account in addition to selling her belongings in Ca ndem.On July 30 of that same year, in Bristol, he married Edith Peglar , a housekeeper.In October of 1909, he married Sarah Freeman .He also married nuptials with Bessie Munday and Alice Burnham and finally in September 1914, he married Alice Reid .Most of them I leave in ruin before disappearing.
If it had only been that, I would have gone down in history as a scammer and a recurring bigamo, but it was not At least he murdered three women following the same method. I drowned them in the bathroom .It was all discovered when inspector Arthur Neil received a letter from the owner of a guest house on the coast called Joseph Crossle.He wrote because had detected a curious similarity between two cases of deaths by drowning.The first, of which there was The newspapers have echoed, Margaret Elizabeth Lloyd's who was found by her husband and the landlady, drowned in the bathtub and Alice Smith's , who died in her pension under the same circumstances.Neil discovered that a few days before his death both women had made a will in favor of their husbands and hired an insurance policy.
The case was in the press and the police chief of Herne Ba and, a spa town on the Kent coast, notified Neil that a similar case had been in his jurisdiction. Sent a photo of Smith was recognized by the doctor that certified the death of Beatrice Munday , married to Henry Williams, who was none other than Smith himself .The funny thing is that none of the women showed signs of violence .After many tests in the police department, in which the baths where the women had died were installed, forensic pathologist Bernard Spilsbury discovered how he did the husband.When they were in the bathtub he lifted their feet Suddenly what made the head submerge.The water that penetrated the nose and throat caused them to collapse and lost their sense , drowning without to defend
He was sentenced to death and was one of the first cases in which premeditation, could be alleged, as he was able to compare several similar cases of which the defendant was accused.If you have been interested in the story of the bathroom killer, you may want to read the post: The terrifying story of the Chef who cooked his wife.
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