The Killing Story of William Corder and the Farmer's Daughter

Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime listen That's a cricket a Suffolk County cricket and he's chirping away at a merry pace. Therefore. He's a male cricket For among crickets only this sex can chirp At the present moment this particular fellow happens to be in a haloth in an English barn

The year is 1827 and it's spring and it's evening and it's warm. And if you're going to be a cricket, now is the time for the hay lies sleep against your antenna. Oh my yes, dead cricket.

One hundred and twenty pounds of country girl just fell on him. Girls name Mariah Martin and she was a dead weight. So tonight, my report to you on the killing story of William Carter and the farmer's daughter.

Crime classics. A series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders.

Now once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. England in 1827 was between periods. A decade before Napoleon had met his Waterloo, and a decade later Victoria was to sit on the throne. True in this year which concerns us, the country was briefly stunned by the affair La Vareille, which almost caused England the continents of Australia, until cooler heads and more honest bookkeeping prevailed. And

When the shuddering was done and normalcy returned, people returned to normal pursuits, which included the young folk. For instance, Mariah Martin, a giggler, five, two, one hundred and twenty pounds, pretty, the moor, and the most chockable chin and pulse tag.