In 1929, American stage actor Philip Yale Drew is accused of murdering a tobacconist, in Reading but he claims to have no memory. Aug 1908; Charles and Caroline Luard go walking but while he collects his golf clubs she is found murdered.
Jan 1928; Harry Pace dies of arsenic poisoning. His wife Beatrice was released due a lack of evidence and the possibility Harry killed himself. Feb 1882; Esther Pay is tried for poisoning Georgina Moore but acquitted due faulty evidence.
In 1560, Queen Elizabeth I's close friendship Robert Dudley is frowned on. When Dudley's wife dies a scandal threatens the monarchy. Glasgow 1855, Madeleine Smith is accused of poisoning lover Emile L'Angelier over her scandalous letters.
Sept 1911: Frances Garnett Orme was found dead at the Savoy, in Lucknow. Her friend, Eva Mount Stephens is put on trial for poisoning her. In 1884, John Lee was due to hang for the murder of Emma Keyse but on three occasions it failed.