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In a case of confused identities, when Frances Saunders was murdered in Peckham in 1897 by her lover, the couple was described in the press as Mr and Mrs Francis. Although Frances’ real identity was soon established when her estranged husband identified her body, it took another nine years for police to work out who her suspected killer really was – but

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