The Chronicles of Crime

20 - The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1

March 29, 2026·24 min·2 clips
Caulfield struck Hickey with a stone, then stabbed him and cut his throat so deeply the head was nearly severed.
This episode presents three historical true crime narratives from 18th-century Britain and Ireland. It opens with the story of Frederick Caulfield, whose murder of a traveler was eerily foreseen in a publican's dream. It then details the life of crime of William Parsons, a gentleman's son executed for illegally returning from transportation. Finally, it recounts the complex fraud and perjury case of law clerk William Chandler.

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A grim old-world crime chronicle where fate, record, and punishment keep closing in.

The chapter has a bleak, old-fashioned charge to it. Frederick Caulfield opens the account, then Adam Rogers’s vision at Port Law pushes it into stranger territory, with the dream described so clearly that the two men he later sees feel almost prearranged.

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You want a murder chronicle that starts with a dream and ends in execution.

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