May 27, 1850 - Thomas Neill Cream
His medical training gave him both the knowledge and the access that made him dangerous — a licensed physician who used strychnine as a weapon across two continents, preying on women who were already vulnerable and largely invisible to legal protection. The demographic of his victims is itself a record of calculated targeting: the poor, sex workers, and women seeking abortions occupied corners of society where their deaths invited little scrutiny. The legend that attached to his execution — the rumored confession linking him to Jack the Ripper — has long overshadowed the documented reality of his crimes, which were substantial enough without the mythology.
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Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian medical doctor and serial killer who poisoned his victims with strychnine. Cream murdered up to ten people in three countries, targeting mostly lower-class women, sex workers and pregnant women seeking abortions. He was convicted and sentenced to death, and was hanged on 15 November 1892.
A popular rumour, started by hangman James Billington, claims that Cream's last words were "I am Jack the...", seemingly a confession to being Jack the Ripper. However, Billington is the only source for this alleged statement, and official records show that Cream was incarcerated in Illinois during the Ripper murders.
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