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MURDER MOST FOUL

Hello, hello, hello—what’s going on at the seaside? It looks
like some very dubious characters have found their way
into our puppet show. Don’t be fooled by these
puppets, girls and boys—they are all infamous
murderers. Can you help Policeman and
Crocodile bring our Mr. Punch and his
fiendish friends to justice?
That’s the way to do it!

Mystery man Heartless mother Ax murderer Doctor death
Bungling Policeman will never In 1892, Francesca Rojas of One hot summer’s day in Creepy Dr. Crippen gave his
catch elusive Jack the Ripper, Argentina bludgeoned her Fall River, Massachusetts, wife a fatal injection, cut up
the notorious serial killer who two young sons to death so that church-going Lizzie Borden her body, and buried the
haunted the gaslit streets of she could marry her boyfriend. brutally attacked and pieces before trying to escape
old London town in 1888. He Rojas confessed all after murdered her stepmother and to Canada with his girlfriend.
stabbed his female victims to a bloody fingerprint on the door father with an ax. She got away The ship’s captain alerted
death, and his identity remains was identified as hers—a first with it, though, after a jury police, who were waiting for
a mystery to this day. for forensic science. failed to convict her in 1892. him as he stepped ashore.

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