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Photos unsolved murder
Scans of snaps that
offer insight to the past
Antiques and Adam Bakes last person to ever see her alive. Miss Langley
objects My family has been researching conversed with the photographer and told him
Show off your family heirlooms, our history for many years, her plans to “make for Hull then head to Marfleet
mementos and retro curios and we have uncovered some via the train.” My great-great grandfather would
Letters from the past remarkable stories during this end up repeating this conversation to countless
time. One of these involves my investigators and interviewers looking to crack the
Old correspondence can hold a wealth of
great-great grandfather, William grisly case. Langley didn’t come home that night,
historical info and fascinating stories
Mortimer Edmonds, and after a search by
News clippings who lived from 1859 to “The police even her panicked family,
Articles reporting on iconic events 1936. He was an avid her bloody corpse was
Amazing stories photographer and owned used a stick to discovered in a ditch
a photography shop in near the local village
Interesting or insightful tales passed
the Witham area of Hull. measure footprints of Preston. Her throat
down from your ancestors
In 1891, this unassuming had been cut and she
Eyewitness accounts and dedicated man at the scene” had been dead for some
Did you witness a historic event in unwittingly became time [by the time she
person? Share it today involved in a gruesome murder that remains was found]. The murder became infamous due to
unsolved to this day. the farcical handling of it by the police. They failed
Family trees On 30 July, he was visited by a young lady called to secure the crime scene and it soon became a
A chance to boast about famous or Mary Jane Langley, who paid for a photograph. gruesome tourist attraction. The police even used
significant ancestors Little did Edmonds know he would be the a stick to measure footprints at the scene and
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