Scotland Yard opens its ‘Black Museum’ files on notorious murder cases
In the summer of 1924, onlookers crowded around an infamous seaside murder scene, peering over the gate of the cottage near Eastbourne where typist Emily Kaye had been lured to her death by a man she thought was the answer to her romantic prayers. Amid a fever of national interest, the cottage's leaseholders sold tickets and offered cold drinks to coachloads of tourists.
This week the details of this historic crime, a case that changed police investigations for ever, will be revealed to an even wider public at the Museum of London. Known as "the Crumbles murder", after the quiet coastal area where it took place, the crime and its lurid details will form a central part of the first exhibition to display the grim contents of the Metropolitan police archives, known as the Black Museum.
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