Crime historian and author
Angela Buckley researches and writes about crime history and Victorian detectives. Her doctoral research is in the 'science of sleuthing' which examines the development of detective practice in Victorian and Edwardian English regional cities. She is associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.
On 30 March 1896, a bargeman hooked a parcel from the river Thames at Caversham. Inside the brown paper package was the body of a baby girl – she had been strangled with tape. When two more tiny bodies were …