80 | The Hednesford Ripper: Henry Thomas Gaskin

When career criminal Henry Thomas Gaskin returned from serving with the Royal Engineers, tunnelling under the trenches of the Western Front during WWI, he was furious to discover his wife’s infidelity. He lured her to a meeting place under the pretence of discussing their marriage, and Lizzie Gaskin was never seen alive again. This true crime case remains one of the West Midlands’ most brutal, yet often forgotten, murders.

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Sources:
Walsall Observer - Saturday 02 June 1906
Lichfield Mercury - Friday 27 July 1906
Oxford Journal - Wednesday 13 March 1912
Lichfield Mercury - Friday 15 March 1912
Loftus Advertiser - Friday 12 April 1912