2 | The Chocolate Cream Killer

In Victorian Brighton, eating chocolate was about to get dangerous… and it wasn’t just toothache people had to worry about. Triggered by a romantic obsession with her local doctor, vain and conniving Christiana Edmunds masterminded a poisoning spree and was smugly convinced she would never be caught…


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Credits:

Research, writing, original song, narration and audio arrangement by Prash

Sources:


Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing


“Christiana Edmunds 1829 – 1907”, Berkshire Record Office, 2009

https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/storage/app/media/pdfs/Christiana-Edmunds.pdf

David, Rowland; “Christiana Edmunds”, Old Police Cells Museum, 2012

https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/sussex_murders/christiana_edmunds

Jones, Kaye; “The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds”, 2016, Pen & Sword History

Music:

Black Fingerprint (copyright and royalty free)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk5zngU-aAE