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A Briefe Discourse of Murder: The Tudor Slaying of George Saunders

March 04, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 25

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#Trevors, journey back with us to 1573 and Shooters Hill in the Tudor period, where Rach walks us through one of the oldest cases we've covered on Sinister South, the murder of George Saunders by another George, and two Annes...

We take you through what happened on the highway to Kent and the coast and all that lay beyond, when a man who decided he wanted someone else's wife for himself got a bit happy with a dagger.

Expect lots of mispronunciations of Olde English, questionable "facts" and a dive into a world of lust, love and murder, tudor style!

Also we celebrate the launch of Hannah's new YouTube channel "Hike with Hannah" and question Rachel's thinking about whether using dead criminals as signposting landmarks is actually the way forward...

Big love

Sources used in this case include:

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/george-saunders-in-happier-times/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7Ax-QyStY

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/strange-inhuman-deaths-2/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tudor-Murder-Files-James-Moore/dp/1473857031

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-63_f_271.pdf

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14795257.gruesome-south-london-murders-from-tudor-times-chronicled-in-james-moores-new-book-the-tudor-murder-files/

https://cupboardworld.blogspot.com/2012/08/killing-your-husband-in-tudor-england.html

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