On 27 May 1817, the body of a murder victim - 20-year-old Mary Ashford - was found in a flooded sandpit at Erdington...

On 27 May 1817, the body of a murder victim - 20-year-old Mary Ashford - was found in a flooded sandpit at Erdington, a village lying five miles outside of Birmingham in England. Exactly 158 years afterwards to the very day and hour of the Ashford murder, history repeated itself in a most brutal and chilling way when 20-year-old Barbara Forrest was strangled and left in the long grass near to the children's home in Erdington where she was employed as a nurse. This may seem nothing more than a coincidence, but more intriguing similarities and parallels between the two murders came to light when the police were investigating the Barbara Forrest murder.

As a police archivist officer read through the Ashford murder of 1817 he shook his head in disbelief. Whit Monday had been on 26 May both in 1817 and 1975 - the year of the Barbara Forrest murder. Like Ashford, Barbara Forrest had been raped before being murdered and both victims were found within 300 yards of one another. Ashford and Forrest shared the same birth date, and the coincidences didn't stop there. Both girls had visited their best friend on the evening of the Whit Monday to change into a new dress for a local dance party. After each murder a suspect was arrested whose name was Thornton, and in both instances, this Mr Thornton was charged with murder but subsequently acquitted.

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That's really disturbing

Consider my jimmies rustled.

I guess if I'm a 20 year old woman I should stay the fuck out of Erdington on May 26/27

Are you?

London?

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I'm posting on Veeky Forums. Worse than that, I'm posting on Veeky Forums on Veeky Forums. What do you think?

Are you suggesting some kind of blood libel

Pls be in Erdington

>tfw no slightly autistic history buff gf

Wouldn't be the first case I know tbqhwyfam.

Gas yourself, schizo.

you should stay out of it at all times its a shithole
t.someone who lived there for most of his life

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could say that about the whole of england tbqh

>Town with no Jews
>no evidence of Jews at all
>HURRRR THE J00Z DID IT

based on what exactly? That there are 2 similar murders? Fucking double digit IQ /pol/beard parasites

you know when you're obsessed with /pol/ when you start bringing jews into a thread where no jews have been mentioned

Thats a stretch, im german and the english countryside is comfy as fuck.

This is pretty easy to explain though

First murder was probably random, the second murder was some psychopathic history teacher who decided to copycat.

Nobody said anything about jews you dumbo.

>No source

Some of you lads are alright

can't use google?

Some of you guys are alright
Don’t go to Erdington tomorrow

Based brainlets

What is the OP pic?

OP's thread is about unlikely coincidence. Pure coincidence is also a common meme. I'd say there's a 90% chance that OP used that image because he thought it'd be funny. Not that a spastic like you would understand that

Here's the real case. There's zero mention of the second murder though. All I could find about that was some historic mysteries site, so that part is probably BS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton

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Somebody should put up a warning for 158 years on the future

Reminds me of when the SK corruption scandal was blowing wide open and /pol/ was blaming "Korean crypto-Jews". Because even if it's not Jews, it's Jews.

Good song

>Someone posts a funny picture with a jew relating to the coincidence meme

>Decide to sperg out, shit myself and call the local authorities about a possible British Natz-sie plotting to soah me for the 12th time this week.
>Go on youtube and comment under the Swiss national anthem about the Jew gold
>Post on Jewbook about how Israel is the only democracy in Israel
>Like Mossad page, they are totally badass because they use the smallest caliber pistols to execute goy children-i mean terrorists