Age: 59
Sex: male
Date: 27 Apr 1928
Place: 16 South Park Hill Road, Croydon
Edmund Creighton Duff, Vera Sydney and Violet Emelia Sidney died from arsenic poisoning.
The main suspects according to police documents were the wife of Edmund Duff and her brother who were suspected of conspiring together, however, towards the end the police accounts seem to favour only the wife of being the main suspect. The police reports infer with some strength that the wife was probably responsible for all three deaths. However, no one was ever charged or convicted for the murders. The brother went off to America after whilst the wife went to live on the South Coast.
see www.amazon.co.uk
see Murder UK
see National Archives - MEPO 3/861
see Western Daily Press - Thursday 03 May 1928
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 17 July 1929
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 12 April 1929
see Gloucestershire Echo - Saturday 22 June 1929
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 17 July 1929
see Real-Life Crimes magazine, 103, p2262-2269
see Murder Case-Book magazine 53, p1875-1885
see The Riddle of Birdhurst Rise: the Croydon Poisoning Mystery, Richard Whittington-Egan
see Unsolved 1928