Dear Reader,
She was sentenced to hang.
Yet the jury asked for mercy.
Even today, nearly ninety years later, there are those who question whether justice was truly served.
On Christmas Day 1937, a shocking murder took place in the Welsh town of Llanrwst.
A man lay dead from a devastating knife wound to his throat.
His wife, Caroline, was arrested and charged with his murder.
The authorities believed they had found their culprit.
The court reached its verdict.
Caroline was sentenced to hang.
But there was something that troubled me as I researched the case.
Caroline suffered from severe neuritis in her hands, a painful condition that often left them numb or burning with pain.
This raises an unsettling question.
Could she really have driven the knife so deeply into William's throat?
Or was a vulnerable woman condemned for a crime she did not commit?
Determined to uncover the truth behind this remarkable case, I travelled to Kew Archives, London, where I examined hundreds of pages of police statements, witness testimonies, court transcripts, photographs, letters, maps, and newspaper reports.
The deeper I investigated, the more questions emerged.
What I discovered was far more than a murder case.
It was a story of hardship, loyalty, fear, justice, and the lives of ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances.
That research became:
A Llanrwst Christmas: Not Worth Dying For
A gripping historical mystery based on a real murder case that continues to provoke debate to this day.
Now I leave the question with you.
Was Caroline guilty?
Or was she wrongly condemned?
