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Reopening a 688-year-old murder case reveals a tangled web of adultery and extortion in medieval England
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688-year-old cold case of priest's murder in London is solved
Reopening a 688-year-old murder case reveals a tangled web of adultery and extortion in medieval England
Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former lover, a priest, nearly 700 years ago.
One evening in the year 1337, the sun shone over London's agglomerated beaches when a group of men approached priest John Forde.
The sun falls on a London street on the night of May 1337, when a group of men approached a father named John Forde. They looked for him in front of a church near the old St. Paul's Cathedral, and then fled. Witnesses identified the killers, but only one of the attackers was arrested. And the woman who possibly ordered this angry and shocking attack — She Fitzpayne, a rich and powerful aristocrat — was never brought to justice, according to the …
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