Ever-watchable historian Lucy Worsley is back on screens this January, with a new series about a lesser-known series of killings in Victorian London that played out at the same time Jack the Ripper was stalking the capital's streets.
Victorian Murder Club — which surely owes its title to a certain string of Richard Osman books, yet promises anything but cosy crime — is a three-part series airing on the BBC from Monday 5 January 2026, in which Worsley delves into the grisly happenings of the Thames Torso Murders.
This spate of four killings between 1887-89, saw the dismembered remains of four women — some never formally identified — discovered scattered along various sections of the River Thames. The grisly deed was thought to have been carried out by someone with strong medical knowledge, but a culprit was never found.
In a short trailer for the show, Worsley promises to shed new light on this 'extraordinary forgotten story', with a hint that she might have ideas on who carried out the heinous crimes. Another preview for the show says that "Working with historians, criminologists and forensic experts, [Worsley] re-examines the evidence, profiles suspects, and restores the voices of the women whose lives were lost, uncovering a bold, dark, and dangerous story of Victorian London that has never been told before."
