Tales from The Hangman's Record Episode Seventy Four. Daniel Raven 6th January 1950 Pentonville.

The reception Raven got with the aerial must have been poor , though it seems there was little interference...

What does a murderer look like? Look in the mirror...

75 years to the day.

Having a TV in 1949, those were truly well off folks. I grew up in an area that didn't even have electricity until the 1950s.

So that's what Harry Kirk looks like.

Once again you’ve done it again !,,, excellent!,,!,,your a star ,I love these big time xxx
Waynex

Surprising that the initial newspaper report described the Goodman's as an elderly couple just aged 60 and 50!

Raven was not a criminal mastermind, lack of motive is strange, an argument got out of hand, was it even planned, might he have escaped the noose had he confessed that he went crazy for a minute or two ?

I read an online article about this case before viewing and wow! so much more detail in this broadcast. No doubt about Raven's guilt. Do hope that his wife and child went on to live happy and peaceful lives.

The captions for Cuthbert and Dr Holden are the wrong way round.

When police solved real crime.

Interesting case, nicely narrated Steve.

Brilliant Work Mate

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At last! A tale with not only the "3rd Musketeer", Dr. Donald Teare, a few stories away from the other "musketeer" Francis Camps, but also Chief Supt. Beveridge, prominently mentioned in Professor Keith Simpson's FORTY YEARS OF MURDER! Our Mr. Fielding is bringing out the big guns of pathology this new year!

This one is truly bizarre, to leave your wife and literally, newborn child in order to murder your in-laws? What on earth was going through his mind?

Thanks again Steve. Happy New Year.

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Top video mate.

Episode 74 happened 75 years ago... WOW... brilliant Steve... keep this awesomeness coming... Blessed Be !

Another brilliant coverage of a murder, thank you Steve.

The suggestion he suffered from a form of PTSD should have been included. It seems the CPS or whatever their equivalent was back then should have taken this case into account. Pierrepoint must have been very busy hanging all the Nazis. There is a road named after him in Worcester just by the train station. 1949 was a turbulent time. The police did their job admirably but Raven should have got rid of the clothes in another way. He obviously wasn’t very bright.

74 episodes already - Wow Steve that is bloomin marvelous!

He killed them with the tv ariel after he returned and was given a bad reception

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Bizarre indeed to commit a double murder directly after seeing your firstborn child for the first time. Inexplicable……

Spot on,again.Bonne Anneé,All the best for 25.

Steve, the detail you provide about these crimes is astonishing, educational, and entertaining. i feel so involved and absorbed in them.
The studpidy of people who commit crimes thinking they have covered up all their track and the tenacity of the police is amazing.
Simple thinks like the window opening outwards are ok, but then the detective who wondered why he changed his clothes.

I know some crimes have been covered by others but I feel if you covered them the detail would be way more interesting.
10 Rillington place would be good also Bentley.

That was a high ranking team on the investigation - maybe the wealth and status of the victims was a factor ? Another excellent video Steve .

This killer had it all in one package...greed,selfishness, violence,lack of self-discipline, and,above all, stupidity. No loss.
Good work, Steve. As usual.
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Brilliant as ever, Steve. Many thanks. I've always found it fascinating, as you know, that the executioners were so often 'northeners'. This hanging would have incurred return journeys from both Manchester and Grimsby for Albert and Harry respectively. I wonder, what were the criteria for these choices, given so many alternative options? (Nuff sed) Cheers and warm regards, Werneth Croc.

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Imagine, having to deal with the horror of losing both loved parents in a brutal murder.. then having to come to terms with the fact that it's your own husband, father of your newborn child, that was responsible, your planned future, so perfect a few days ago now destroyed, and then, the mother of the killer, your own husband, is suing for your home's furniture.. :</ If ever there was motive for another murder !

It always astonishes me how swiftly juries reached their verdicts in these cases. These days it would take them a week to find someone guilty of shoplifting!

❤another good episode 👏

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Excellent as always !!!!!!! //Lars

Thanks, get yourself a pint!

Another masterpiece Steve. It was a bit pitiful pleading insanity at the appeal when it wasn't even brought up at the original trail. The way Raven set up the crime scene to make it look like an eractic opportunist burgarly suggests to me he was methodically evil and driven by covetousness. Side note:- How long before either of the Bentley, Evans, Ellis episodes? 👍Rob....

Another great video - the actual photos add a lot to the understanding and detail of the crime - think that there is little doubt into Raven's guilt. Glad to see that you have managed to source a picture of Harry Kirk - how did you find it? Without wanting to get into too morbid detail - perhaps too long a drop by Pierrepoint, considering the damage to the skin on the neck and wasn't it unusual for the spinal cord to be snapped?

Very interesting Steve. Thanks for reviewing. I must buy your books.

When Gertrude remarried you stated that she said that she hoped her son would never find out why he had no maternal grandparents.
Well, Steve, at age 75 and sitting watching your fab case with a pizza he has just found out.
He may not press the ‘like’ nor subscribe until he has stopped choking...

Really heartwarming to hear of a spouse not standing by her madman for a change 🤔

Once again Steve you have come up trump fabulous. I think he was guilty, he might have been nuts in his head, But to wash everything after not nuts. GUILY.

Great episode as always Steve. Thanks. Bob

Great illustrations as always, and what a terrible person Raven was. Hard to imagine that he was executed then, but now he would probably be released from prison after 28or 30 years.
Another great tragedy well reported Steve.

He looks 43, not 23 in the photos.

What about doing video on Scottish murderer Peter Manuel in early sixties?

Thank you for another fine episode. Your hard work is much appreciated!

Ànother suberb episode, deeply researched, detailed and delivered in a calm professional manner. This is History as it should be and although dealing with the dark side of human behaviour is fascinating.