Thomas Neill Cream

Thomas Neill Cream
Cream c. 1890
Born(1850-05-27)27 May 1850
Glasgow, Scotland
Died15 November 1892(1892-11-15) (aged 42)
Criminal statusExecuted by hanging
Spouse
Flora Brooks
(m. 1876; died 1877)
Conviction(s)Murder (Illinois)
Murder (England)
Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment (Illinois)
Death (England)
Details
Victims5 known
Span of crimes
1881–1892
CountryUnited States and England
State(s)Illinois and Middlesex
Date apprehended
3 June 1892

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 suggested that Cream's last words were a (false) confession that he was Jack the Ripper – but official records show that he was in prison in Illinois at the time of the Ripper murders.