Criminal. He will be remembered for his part in a widely-publicized British murder case of the victim, Percy Thompson. Percy's wife, Edith Jesse Graydon Thompson and Bywaters were found guilty of murdering her husband. Freddie Bywaters was a classmate of Edith Thompson's younger brother and known to her family. In 1920 at the age of eighteen, Bywaters had befriended the Thompson couple. As a handsome, impulsive and eight years younger than Mrs. Thompson, he had joined the merchant navy and had stories of his world-wide travels that held Edith's interest. He was the opposite from the very traditional, conservative and older Percy Thompson. An intimate relationship between Bywaters and Mrs. Thompson started in June of 1921 when he accompanied the couple on a vacation. Bywaters even stayed for a short time in the Thompson home as a guest. After that, Bywaters and Mrs. Thompson started meeting in hotel rooms under fictitious names. Mrs. Thompson claimed that her husband would not give her a divorce, which would have been very difficult to obtain in the 1920s in England, and was physically abusive to her after learning of her affair with Bywaters. On October 3, 1922 at about 11 PM, the Thompson couple were walking home from the theatre when a man jumped from the bushes verbally attacking then stabbing Mr. Thompson and then pushing Mrs. Thompson to the ground. The attacker fled before Mrs. Thompson could recover from her fall. Screaming for help, she found her husband dead from his wounds. After being questioned as a witness by the police, the hysterical widow identified Bywaters as the attacker and he was arrested. When the police found sixty handwritten love letters by Mrs. Thompson in Bywaters' home , she was arrested as an accomplice. Bywaters had produced the murder weapon before the trial, protested repeatedly that he had not plan to kill anyone, and that Mrs. Thompson was completely innocent. They were tried together. On December 11, 1922, the jury found the couple guilty of murder in two hours and fifteen minutes and sentenced to death by hanging. Even though one million citizens signed a petition against giving the couple the death sentence, the death sentence stood. Although both were executed on the same day at 9 AM, he was hung at Pentonville Prison and she at Holloway Prison for Women, which was less than a mile from the Pentonville facility. He was buried on the prison grounds in an unmarked grave. Since this trial and execution, there are been numerous newspaper and magazine articles along with books written on the murder, trial and the murderers. Recent books: author Rene' Wesis wrote “Criminal Justice” in 1990. Molly Cutpurse wrote two books on the Bywaters-Thompson case: in 2003 “A Life Lived” and in 2010 “The Following Years.” Laura Thompson wrote “Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders” in the spring of 2018. The couple were the subjects of Madame Tussauds' internationally famous wax collection and on display for many years. A film, “Another Life,” which was released in 2001, told their story.