The First Ever Railway Murder That Terrified Victorian Britain

The First Ever Railway Murder That Terrified Victorian Britain

This is the true story of the first railway murder. In 1864, the shocking crime aboard a first-class north London railway carriage shattered the Victorian belief in technological safety. Banker Thomas Briggs was brutally assaulted and thrown from the train. Join us as we investigate the international manhunt led by Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Richard Tanner to track the killer, Franz Müller, across the Atlantic to New York. Credit to : Timeline – World History Documentaries