Thomas Neill Cream

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream (May 27 1850 - November 16, 1892) was a serial killer, who claimed his first victims in the United States and the rest in England. Cream poisoned his victims and was executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought himself to the attention of London police.

Early life

Born in 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland, Thomas Cream was raised in Quebec, Canada, after his family moved there in 1854. He was an excellent student at school and, later, college. He went to study medicine in London in 1876; he had an added incentive for crossing the Atlantic, since he had just married a woman he had made pregnant, the bride's family having forced Cream to the church literally at gunpoint.

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1850 - Glasgow - Scotland - Quebec - Canada - 1854 - 1876 - Atlantic

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The honeymoon was only just over when Cream left in the night for England, leaving a note explaining his absence to his new wife. He returned to Canada long enough for his wife to die of a mysterious illness, a death for which he would later be blamed. He went to Edinburgh to practice medicine, but when a woman with whom he was alleged to have had an affair was found dead, pregnant and poisoned by chloroform in an alleyway, in August 1879, Cream relocated to the United States.

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Edinburgh - Chloroform

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