Some crimes become part of the national memory, but many others gradually disappear into the shadows of history. The story of Dr John Bodkin Adams belongs to the latter category, although nothing ...

John Bodkin Adams was a GP, convicted fraudster, and suspected serial killer (Picture: Getty/True Crime Museum/Ella Millward) ‘The rigorous standards of the law sometimes allow that the guilty walk ...

John Bodkin Adams was born in 1899 in Randalstown, educated at Coleraine Inst, and qualified in medicine from Queen’s Belfast. He worked as a GP in Eastbourne on the Sussex coast. He was tried for ...

In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his elderly patients.

“It is a most curious situation, perhaps unique in these courts,” mused Mr. Justice Devlin last week, “that the act of murder has to be proved by expert evidence.” Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the ...

Britain’s stern laws of libel and contempt, which keep much of Britain’s news out of print, made news on their own account last week. ¶ For their coverage of Dr. John Bodkin Adams’ trial on a charge ...

ONE of the most lengthy and dramatic medicolegal cases has recently been concluded at the Old Bailey, with the acquittal of Dr. John Bodkin Adams, on a charge of murdering one of his patients, Mrs.

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ONE of the most lengthy and dramatic medicolegal cases has recently been concluded at the Old Bailey, with the acquittal of Dr. John Bodkin Adams, on a charge of murdering one of his patients, Mrs.