just randomly stumbled upon your channel, love the focus on 1890s to the 1930s true crime, my favorite historical period. definitely wish the youtube algorithm promote your stuff to more viewers.
Well told and well researched. The storyline follows several other videos on the case that have appeared over the past few years. Edith the gifted, misunderstood, innocent fantasist. Yes, it was a terrible miscarriage of justice. It makes us empathise with Edith to the point of overlooking the incredible folly of the relationship she cultivated with her lover. She was so immersed in her self-centred love fantasy that she failed to see what a sensible, mature woman should have seen from the start of the affair. Her lover-only just out of his teens-could become a danger to her husband, to himself and to her. She love bombed him. He was the love of her life; she didn’t want to lose his love and live. She repeatedly made it his responsibility to somehow find a way for them to be together. ‘Think for me do.’ ‘I want to leave everything to you darlingest boy.’ ‘You really must do something this time.’ ‘Find me a job abroad.’ ‘Be jealous so that you will do something desperate.’ She did nothing to quit her marriage. Their future was all up to Freddy. Let’s put aside the murder charge and look at her words in the context of a romantic relationship. They are recognised indicators of an anxious, self-centred, manipulative love-devoid of genuine care and empathy. We can deplore Edith’s conviction, but justice systems have improved. Toxic relationships continue. It helps to recognise the warning signs.
