# Episode 009: John Meff: The Housebreaker Who Could Not Stay Away

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Podcast: [Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653)
Published: 2026-07-13T12:00:00+00:00
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Send us your Feedback John Meff is the son of French Protestant refugees who fled persecution under Louis XIV, raised in London with great care and bound apprentice to a weaver. He serves faithfully, marries, and then finds himself unable to keep his family alive on honest wages; it is poverty, not wickedness, that first pushes him toward housebreaking, a trajectory recorded in Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals with the unsentimental clarity that makes it one of the earliest works of tru...

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