Ratcliff Highway murders

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Ratcliff Highway murders

Postmortem sketch of John Williams, supposed murderer
Date	7 and 19 December 1811
Location	Wapping, London, England, UK
Also known as	John Murphy
Outcome	Declared guilty after committing suicide in his prison cell, 28 December 1811
Deaths	Timothy Marr, Celia Marr, Timothy Marr (3 mos.), James Gowan, John Williamson, Elizabeth Williamson, and Bridget Anna Harrington

The Ratcliff Highway murders (sometimes Ratcliffe Highway murders) were two attacks on two separate families – the Marr and Williamson families – that resulted in seven fatalities. The two attacks occurred twelve days apart in December 1811, in homes located half a mile apart near the London Docklands district of Wapping, London, England, United Kingdom. The main suspect in the slayings, John Williams, killed himself before he could be put on trial.^[1]