Louie Calvert — The Convicted Murderer Who Cried Wolf

The story about the 1926 Murder of Lily Waterhouse

Alexa Baczak
12 min readDec 29, 2021

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In June 1926, it was in the middle of the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition and bootlegging in the United States was rampant and would be the center of future films and books about the era.

We never hear much about what was going on in the rest of the world. And in this case, we’re going to the UK in 1926.

So, in June 1926, Lily Waterhouse was found beaten and strangled to death in her house. And there was…

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