# Episode 018: James Shaw: Highwayman and Murderer of the Hampstead Road

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Podcast: [Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653)
Published: 2026-09-14T12:02:02+00:00
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Duration seconds: 306

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Send us your Feedback James Shaw is a man who cannot settle. Born into a family with the means to set him on a respectable path, he drifts through one trade after another, never sticking, never satisfied; Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals captures him at the precise moment restlessness curdles into something far more dangerous. He blames a negligent wife, he blames circumstance, but beneath every excuse lies a temperament that finds honest labour unbearable. It is a story that belongs ...

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