This might be surprising coming from me, but I often find myself wondering why crime dramas and documentaries have exploded in popularity, perhaps at the expense of other genres. I’m obviously guilty, as an actor, for my part in this, with roles in Trigger Point and Line of Duty.
But with my new Sky History series, Britain’s Murder Map, my husband – historian Jonny Owen – and I hoped to do something different. We wanted to focus on the forgotten victims.
Their own stories have never really emerged. Why is that and why did the women never get the justice they deserved?
Jemima MacDonald, 31, was also a single mother. According to police, “she appeared to be extremely fond of male company and highly promiscuous”. Of Helen Puttock, 29, a mother of two whose marriage had ended, police wrote she was “said to be fond of a good time. She could consume a good amount of liquor without an effect on her”.
Another episode in our series, this time focusing on London in the Edwardian era, concerns Dr Crippen. Hanged in 1910 for the murder of his actress wife, you may well have heard the name Dr Crippen. Jonny remembers seeing his waxwork in the Chamber of Horrors in Madame Tussauds as a child.
Police believed Dr Crippen, who by that point was sharing his home with his mistress, when he said his wife had simply left and disappeared. They initially dismissed Cora’s friends, who knew something was wrong. Without their efforts, Dr Crippen would never have been caught.
My husband Jonny often says, “the past is a different country”. And he’s right. It was, thankfully and in so many ways, a very different place. But all the cases we investigate – the unsolved murders, miscarriages of justice and culturally significant crimes – sadly, they’ve left a lasting impact on their communities – and their legacy remains today.
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