James Greenacre - the "Edgware Road Murder".
James Greenacre - the "Edgware Road Murder". On Christmas Eve 1836, 46 year old Hannah Brown had left her lodgings and moved in with 42 year old James Greenacre, who was a grocer, at his house, in Carpenter's Place off Camberwell New Road in south London, preparatory to their marriage the next day. She was not heard from again by her family. The murder took place in the house and Hannah had been battered to death with a rolling pin and subsequently dismembered. On the 28th of December 1836, Robert Bond, a bricklayer who was working on some new houses, came across a package wrapped in a sack, which appeared to have been carefully placed under a paving stone. Lifting the stone, he saw that there was a pool of blood under the sack. Police Constable Samuel Pegler examined the package and found that it contained a torso without the head and legs. On the 6th of January 1837 a human head was recovered from Johnson's Lock, on the Regent’s Canal in Stepney. On Thursday,