His notorious crimes - one of which took place in Blackpool - shocked the nation back in 1915 and was one of the first to see police using forensics to catch a killer. Smith, originally from London, spun a web of lies to bigamously ‘marry’ seven women, murdering three of them in...
In the Hebrew Bible, Jephthah’s daughter has neither name nor heir. The biblical account (Judg. 11:30–40) is somber—a daughter due to be sacrificed because of her father’s rash vow. The theme has inspired numerous midrashim and over five hundred artistic works since the Renaissance. Tr...