Block Information: Murder in the Forest

Fun As Death

1907, Cheyne Street, 200 yards from The Forest, Jessie King nurtured and cared for babies that were not her own. In a moment of “drunken melancholy” she shook one to death in the basement. She threw the body in the river. Whilst out playing, two boys stumbled across the baby's body. The body led to Jessie. She was the last woman to be hung in Edinburgh. 100 years later the deaths of other babies surround the Forest once more. A reoccurrence of the baby farming that Jessie King was notorious for?

Murder in The Forest is a dark murder mystery party featuring improvised performances from ten members of the Forest attending public, to be selected from the hat on the eve of the murder.