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George Joseph Smith (11 January 1872 – 13 August 1915) was an English serial killer and bigamist who was convicted and subsequently hanged for the murders of three women in 1915. The case became known as the Brides in the Bath Murders.
Yet despite the carnage and suffering on the Western Front, the country had been gripped for months by the sinister crimes of one George Joseph Smith. Smith, a petty criminal from Bethnal Green, had systematically murdered three women shortly after marrying them.
A man who murdered his 60-year-old love rival and refused to reveal where the body was hidden has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 26 years. Dwayne Cupidon, 26, was convicted of...
George Joseph Smith was hanged for the murder of three women, known as the Brides in Bath, on this day in 1915.
George Joseph Smith, the 'Brides In The Bath' killer. When Alice Burnham was found dead in the very bath she had requested, Crossley put it down to a tragic accident. He later learned she was the second victim of calculated bigamist George Joseph Smith.
On the morning of his execution, George Joseph Smith was a wreck. With death staring him in the face, he was led quickly – and shakily – to the scaffold and positioned onto the trapdoor where the hood was placed over his head.
trial at Old Bailey. …20th century were those of George Joseph Smith (1915), who drowned three women—each of whom he had recently married—in a bathtub; Nazi propagandist and radio broadcaster William Joyce (1945), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw for the sneering way in which he tried to undermine British morale during World War II; and serial ...
