DISS MURDER TOUR

  A car trip around the sites associated with the

grislier side of the town’s past

Any number of people can book.

If you have visitors to stay, why not take them on

the Murder Tour?  It can be arranged to suit you.

It would make a good birthday or anniversary treat.

£2.50 per head

Starts at the Mere’s Mouth

Bring a car, as it is too far to walk

The tour is good fun and very interesting

It includes a visit to the museum at the end

                     King John had an eye for women and was not averse to putting people to death if they displeased him. Did Matilda Fitz Walter spurn his advances? Did he have her poisoned in 1213? Or did the monks make it all up? And why would they do that?

                    The last public execution in Diss was watched by 5,000 people, a crowd not matched until the football team came back from Wembley in 1994. It was quite normal to go and see someone being hanged; but what salacious crime drew so many people to a lonely spot on Diss Common. In 1742 you could be executed for things that would now get you into the Honours List. The main figure in this story of sexual jealousy and murder is Diss tailor Robert Carleton.

                     What was the message that made Louie Bryant leave the dance and go out into the night, never to be seen alive again? Two years after the infamous Murder in the Red Barn, Diss had its own mysterious killing. Find out what Diss was like in 1829 as you re-trace Louie’s last steps and see the spot where she died.

                     Why was the Crippen case regarded as one of the trials of the century? Why are we so interested in a little bald chap with a moustache and round spectacles? The 1910 case had some sensational elements, but no more than many other murders. We are really only interested in him because he had a mistress called Ethel Le Neve. And she came from Diss.