Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club

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Season 1, Episode 3

The historian reveals that the trail had gone cold until a fifth dismembered corpse was discovered 12 years after the last murder. On June 8, 1902, two men spotted a bundle in Salamanca Place, Lambeth, containing the dismembered body of a woman and, for the first time, the woman's head. This new murder could contain a fresh lead, and the hunt for a Victorian serial killer ends with a convincing prime suspect

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Education/Science/Factual Topics Factual Crime

Cast & Crew

Lucy Worsley (Presenter)

James Ross (Director)

Clementine Mortelman (Producer)

Deborah Lee (Series producer)

Colette Flight (Executive producer)

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Lucy Worsley (Presenter)

Born: December 18, 1973 in Reading, Berkshire

Best Known For: Presenting various historical documentaries for the BBC.

Early-life: Born on December 18, 1973 in Reading, Berkshire. Lucy moved frequently as a child with her father's job as a geologist, travelling to such countries as Canada, Iceland and Norway before the family settled in Nottingham. She studied ancient and modern history at New College, which is part of Oxford University. She graduated in 1995 with a first-class. Lucy started out as a curator for Milton Manor before going on to work for English Heritage and writing the English Heritage guide to Bolsover Castle. She then worked for Glasgow Museums before becoming chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

Career: Worsley's earliest TV presenting roles include If Walls Could Talk and Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency, which she worked on in 2011. She co-presented Antiques Uncovered with Mark Hill in 2012. Worsley's series A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley was broadcast in 2013 and she presented The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain the year after. Since then, she has presented such series as Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley, Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey, A Very British History, Six Wives with Lucy Worsley and History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley.

Quote: "The people who like my programmes like real ale, they like old guns and old trains, and they also like a nice dress."

Trivia: She enjoys cross country running and represented Berkshire when she was a teenager.