Catherine Hayes the Georgian era Killer Convicted of Petty Treason | True Crime | Well, I Never

Rather similar to the story of Oedipus 🤔

Em... what are the chances of a mother giving up her son for adoption then they both end up living in London at the same time and become lodger and landlord... then start a relationship!

Promiscuity, incest, and murder — Here's to looking at you Alabama.

Thank you for another fascinating story.

Catherine Hayes did not deserve her horrific death. Even though the people of the time were accustomed to such barbarism, one witness to her death, a man called Phillips, who was a lawyer from cardigan in wales, was so horrified by the spectacle, that he was prominent in the campaign to repeal the law of execution by burning.

The good old days

Glad she suffered horrendously. She deserved that and more.

People were more mature then, absolutely. Just because you present an exception that is one of the worst humans ever to exist, that's poor proof to discredit anything. silly to even mention it using that as evidence. No one has said or claimed that hubris or villainy or debauchery or immaturity has not existed at all times - the point is the degrees and ratios, for which this proves and disproves nothing.

Good god! Where do you find these stories? Impressive research.

Sir, the button is checked from the get-go, I know this story teller is very good and the tale is too! Thank you for the great memories.

It took a while to identify the head of her husband on a pike as folk known to John said he wasn't that tall 😅

"I have been watching all the time. Let me end to this drama by a sweet smile. I will give the previous memories and it's reward later. Then I will recall all the incidence that made before. ". I Will BE THERE" 🕊🙏

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Friggin Randy's guuuuut..... it's full of dirty ol cheeseburgers

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As usual well, i never, a brilliantly told story.

I think society needs to bring back burning at the stake to murder like her

Wow Paul, good story. Many thanks.

This story proves that evil people aren't a modern creation. And that modern life isn't responsible for creating them, they have existed throughout human history.

They couldn’t have known for sure that they were mother and son.

I loved this story and would’ve been a perfect story for Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle Show

Thank you for sharing her story. Sad but important none the less.

Oh my gosh! Every bit of this is so awful. Let's just hope neither knew they were related to one another. I can't think of anything worse than incest. 🤢 🤮

The River Thames has seen so many body parts!

Honest history vs. sexism-shaded sensationalism? Honestly hard to tell sometimes.

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And these colonialists brought civilisation to the savages.

Maybe they were doing an Oedipus Rex reenactment that went too far.

Women always get a 'bad press'. They did what they had to, choices were almost unknown, Don't judge. Be thankful.

And she burns to this day

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Note that more than a hundred and fifty years after King James' Bible revision would become accepted by so many as factual beyond all doubt witches and criminals were still burned at the stake, such practice apparently not refuted by interpretation of the text. btw, How are we doing since then? Asking for a friend.

What piano song is playing in the background?

Isn’t this the same thing as Oedipus Rex??

She was strange, she actually tried to put her son back where he came from!

Well presented - although ‘grizzly’ offerings!😳😳😳 (BTW: great vest & moustache!😎)

Just an Ole tale of a Hooker....Old as time it self

Wait, someone was BURNED for counterfeiting? We need that story!

Nothing she did was justified, but I noticed that she was "a prostitute" before age 16. More accurately, men sexually abused her and made her feel like her worth was directly linked to her body from a young age. Is it any wonder she was sexually promiscuous and had weird perceptions of sex later on?
Again, not a justification, does not excuse the vile stuff she chose to do. But these cases always remind me that our actions affect more people than those directly involved. If we mistreat our children, they may grow up to struggle or even to hurt others. If we dismiss people for being poor or disadvantaged in some way, they may get desperate and act in ways that are antisocial.

This is like a story about debauchery of Biblical proportions. Only seen these days under IS or PLO rule in the middle east. We've come so far?

Don’t need Hollywood, history and the mind of the theatre will do.
We are all going to die, but how and why are the end question.

Not stuck on a pole and displayed in the market square 😮😮😮😮Jesus!

This is gruesome 😢😢😢what did i just watch😂😂😂

Well, I NEVER! Indeed

Ironic that the 2 Catherines suffered the same punishment for such different crimes.

Oh dear me, sleeping with her own son.

This got dark fast

I hadn’t heard of the crime of “petty treason” until now.
Also, I had no idea that England was still burning people at the stake in the late 1700s.
And huge crowds gathered to watch such a cruel and grisly execution. I suppose the crowds are predictable. People still like to watch violent spectacles.

Evil has always been a part of society. Terrible what this man did. Justice served fast in those times.

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