Catherine Hayes the Georgian era Killer Convicted of Petty Treason | True Crime | Well, I Never 

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This really has me thinking.. Back then there was no DNA & people were able to just leave town and create new identities easily so it's really hard to tell who did what and how many crimes were committed & never discovered and also how many babies were born from affairs that nobody ever suspected. There never has been a dull moment on Planet Earth.

Imagine your loved one went missing and the next time you saw them their head was on a pike in the square

We think of people from those times as sophisticated because the majority of literature that came down to us was about the upper classes. This is because only the upper classes could read and afford books. Dickens changed this and wrote for and about the Everyman (those who could read) in cheap serialized magazine format.

Killing someone is unthinkable but sleeping with your own child now that is deeply disgusting!

This woman is so awful, both Jerry Springer and Doctor Phil want to schedule her as a guest.

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Catherine Hayes was given the worst form of execution when it comes to being burnt at the stake. Where the wood was placed low down so that the person was actually burnt to death. The version used more often was where the wood was stacked up above the condemned persons head so they actually died on smoke inhalation rather then the fire. There were variations added in. In this one they unsuccessfully tried to straggle her with a rope before the fire took her. But more usually they would have the condemned person stand on a stool and they would tie a cord around around neck and the stake. Once the fire was started the stool would be pulled with a rope and the person died of strangulation. In the case of Catherine Murphy her execution was the same as this Catherine but she had the cord around her neck and stood on a stool. She was not supposed to have the cord around her neck but the executioner took it on himself to do so as a protest at this form of execution. And this was the last time it happened.

Can you please cover, just how unique of a case "Mary Bell was?" She was so young yet showed such signs of evil.. it's a creepy story. Even her picture is creepy and she was a kid, like out of a horror movie.

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How barbaric. I can't imagine living in a time when you watched a woman burn to death. And just to be clear, there is no way she was ash an hour later. It takes a super hot fire to turn a human to ash. Trust me, there were charred corporeal remains.

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I don't believe that was her son, how could they even know that? That sounds like something ADDED to th story to make it even dirtier and depraved

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Anybody who thinks that people in the past were better has clearly not read "Marque De Sade." His writings, even by today's standards, are still not for the faint of heart and describe things that you will not even see in the most gruesome horror movies. The things that he actually did were not nearly as bad, but they were bad enough.

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How did Catherine and her lover/son find out they were mother and son?

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Does this mean Catherine knew Billings was her bio son from the start??? Ewww

I recall reading about the same Katherine 16 years ago in a library book that I borrowed about sadistic murderers in the 18th century ironically you covered the story thank you

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You know, when I was much younger I promised myself that any book that I started to read I would finish, no matter how boring it was, but there was one I could not finish. It was "Through a Glass Darkly" it takes place in the era when women could not own property. This girl, about fifteen went out every day with her father to take care of the tenants on the land and to see what she could do to help improve the land. She fell in love with the estate and became determined to rule the estate through the auspices of her father whom she quickly seduced. Now she could make the changes she felt best for their land. If the father did not fall in line then she threatened to tell her mother that her father was sexually molesting her. Time goes by, her brother who couldn't give a damn about the estate walks in on her father and her when they are at it. The father sees him and immediately has a heart attack from which he does not recover. The son inherits the estate and the girl promptly seduces him and discovers that her brother has a penchant for S and M. So she gives him what he wants and continues to run the estate. That is when I threw the book away.

I sent that to a friend of mine whose last name happens to be Hayes. And he always says he’s from England

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It seems a particularly disturbing way to spend an afternoon ,watching a human being legally burnt in front of a mob , the irony of a platform breaking under the weight and killing some of the bloodthirsty audience is darkly ironic.

In 1789 when people when the last judicial burning took place, the great writer of civilised romances, Jane Austen, was 13. It's hard to believe. I wonder if she heard about it in her Hampshire vicarage home.

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As I sit here drinking my Tea in one of the safest countries on earth (England), I sit and think about how my not so distant ancestors were one affair away from being burnt at the stake... This place used to be so brutal, this is why we should thank our ancestors for the freedoms they fought for.

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