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The Brighton Trunk Murders: a Woman With No Name at the Station, and a Second Body Found by Chance

2026-11-13 · · Unsolved Crimes · 14 min read

On Sunday 17 June 1934, a cloakroom attendant at the railway station in Brighton noticed a smell he could not ignore.

Brighton is a seaside town on the south coast of England, about 75 km south of London. In the 1930s, trains brought crowds down from the capital every summer weekend.

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