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Eugene Aram

Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

A scholar whose 14-year-old murder was uncovered by bones in a cave.

In 1745 Daniel Clark vanished from Knaresborough. Fourteen years later, a skeleton was found, and suspicion fell on schoolmaster Eugene Aram, by now a respected scholar.

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When
1759
Where
54.0000, -1.4500
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

St Robert's Cave is by the River Nidd, on Abbey Road.

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