[dynachrome]

Yikes. Pretty gruesome crime. A real cold case!

[DManA]

From the headline I thought Attenborough was in trouble.

[Doogle]

"she wouldn't eat the mushrooms"

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Katy Webster took an axe gave her mistress forty whacks, when she saw what she had done she served the pieces in a bun.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Webster, a convicted thief and fraudster, chopped up Thomas with an axe, boiled the remains and gave the dripping to local children to eat.

Fried Green Tomatoes - UK Style

[GenXteacher]

“chopped up Thomas with an axe, boiled the remains and gave the dripping to local children”

What a nice lady, feeding the starving children....yikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LZxelSc62Y

[momtothree]

Does anyone know what “dripping” means? I use drippings to make gravy (the fat and juice). Not to sound gross but is this the same thing? Seems like an odd word.

[PGR88]

Webster, a convicted thief and fraudster, chopped up Thomas with an axe, boiled the remains and gave the dripping to local children to eat.

A box containing human flesh was found in the nearby River Thames days after the killing and one of the victim's feet was found on an allotment.

Wow! Psychochotic killers back then didn't mess around! Our modern-day psycho-killers are pikers by comparison....

[colorado tanker]

More details here. Seems the maid wasn't very good at legitimate work and was sacked. It was then she whacked.

http://www.stmgrts.org.uk/archives/2008/10/the_mistress_the_murderess_and_the_bowl_of_lard.html

[colorado tanker]

Don’t know if this fits any of your ping lists, but it certainly is strange history.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Good thing it did not happen in Florida or they would have have convicted Kate the maid...too circumstantial..LOL