Liverpool's Mansion Murder — The Wife Nobody Wanted to Believe

James Maybrick was a prosperous Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic and strychnine for years, convinced the poisons kept him sharp for the trade that had made him rich. In the spring of 1889, after a fortnight of illness that four doctors could not name, he lost his life in his own bed at Battlecrease House in the leafy suburb of Aigburth. Within a week his family had settled on a culprit: his young American wife, Florence. But had she truly done it, or was she simply the woman nobody wanted to believe? A new forgotten British case every few days. Subscribe so the next one finds you. Sources: Proceedings at the trial of Florence Maybrick, Liverpool Assizes, St George's Hall, July to August 1889 Decision of the Home Secretary, Henry Matthews, August 1889 Mrs Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years, 1905 Contemporary press reporting of the period #TrueCrime #BritishTrueCrime #HistoricalCrime #Documentary