Medieval murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had a priest assassinated on a busy London street in 688-year-old cold case

Amazing stuff! What a crime story! Life is stranger than fiction!

Women often do not kill directly with their own hands, but with the help of others! That is one reason why women are called the gentle sex! Caution: satire.

"A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street almost seven centuries ago.

The case is among hundreds cataloged by the Medieval Murder Maps project at Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, a database of unnatural deaths in England during the 14th century. This one, however, has a few twists. ..."

Medieval murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had priest assassinated in 688-year-old cold case

The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight into violence, and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.

Inquest number 15 on 1336–7 City of London Coroner's Rolls