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Murderer is cremated after 200 years PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Monday, 23 August 2004
20 August 2004

AN infamous murderer, who was executed in Bury St Edmunds, has been cremated 200 years later.

William Corder, who was hanged for killing his lover Maria Marten, was finally laid to rest after his remains were cremated last Thursday. The private ceremony, held at Streatham crematorium in South London, was a chance for distant relatives to close the final chapter on a story that has intrigued people for generations.

Corder, 24, the son of a wealthy farmer, was convicted of killing Miss Marten, 26, in a barn in Polstead, near Sudbury, in August 1828.

Thousands of spectators gathered at the county gaol, in Bury, to watch the hanging.

The body was then taken to Shire Hall where it was cut open and laid out on show before being moved to West Suffolk Hospital for dissection.

But one of Corder's descendants felt the treatment he received was a disgrace and set about tracking down his remains.

Linda Nessworthy, whose grandmother, Laura Corder, was related to the killer, has spent three years trying to get the skeleton released from London's the Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Museum where it has been since 1949.

The crime – often known as The Murder in the Red Barn – still interests people today.

Moyse's Hall Museum, in Bury, receives many visitors wanting to see the preserved artefacts that relate to the crime.

William Corder's death bust is one of the museums star attractions, as well as the gruesome remains of Corder's scalp and a book bound in his skin.
Now their future is unclear. A spokesman for the museum said: "We have not yet received any formal request from a member of William Corder's family for the return of the items in Moyse's Hall Museum.

"The whole Red Barn collection, including the account of the trial bound in Corder's skin and the part of his scalp, are artefacts of their time and help us to understand how people thought about and dealt with crime and punishment two centuries ago.

"We will consider any claim carefully and sensitively, with a final decision being taken by St Edmundsbury's councillors as custodians of our local history."

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