The case has been featured on BBC One's Julian Fellowes Investigates. Gardiner was tried twice for the murder but each time the jury failed to reach a verdict. At the time it was alleged that the murderer was a preacher of the Primitive Methodist Chapel named William Gardiner, who was having an affair with the victim.
Rose Harsent, a six-months-pregnant maid who was stabbed to death on 1 June 1902, in Peasenhall, Suffolk, England by an unknown assailant.Rose Harsent, victim of the Peasenhall murder
