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Brighton Trunk Murderers Walk Free | True Crime
1934 Brighton, England saw two different Trunk Murders of women. It would be revealed that they were not related but merely a coincidence that two different women would find their final resting place to be a trunk.
What is even more shocking was that nearly the same thing had happened a hundred years before in 1831.
The First Trunk
On June 17, 1934, William Joseph Vinnicombe noticed a stench at the Brighton railway station. As he looked around for what could be causing the smell, he found the source, a plywood trunk left at the luggage office.
Chief Inspector Ronald Donaldson was the one to open the trunk. Inside he found only a dismembered female torso. An alert was sent to other stations, and eventually, the dismembered legs were located at King’s Cross station. The head and arms have never been found.
Press started calling the victim “The Girl with the Pretty Feet” because the corpse had dancer’s feet thought to look quite beautiful.
Postmortem
Sir Bernard Spilsbury examined the torso and legs. He believed the woman to be…
