Pretty Jane and the viper of Kidbrooke Lane

On April 26, 1871, a policeman found a brutalized young woman in a remote area, her face smashed and battered. She was still alive but soon slipped in a coma and five days later, she died. On the day of her death, they discovered who she was---sixteen-year-old Jane Maria Clouson, a servant to the Pooks family. Hours later police arrested her master's son, twenty-year-old Edmund for her murder.This criminal case was conducted at the birth of modern forensic science.