In 1675, a royal warrant ordered a monument for what it carefully called the “supposed bodyes” of two missing princes. Three years later, the finished tomb named a killer, a method, and a verdict as settled fact. No court had ever tried the case.
This episode goes back to the actual evidence: Edward V and Richard of York’s disappearance in 1483, the accusations that followed, Thomas More’s confession claim and why no record of it survives, the two later claimants who complicate everything, and the bones in Westminster Abbey that have never been forensically identified.
Every claim in this episode is sourced and tiered proven, probable, possible, or unsupported following The Black Archive’s standard evidence protocol. The full written case audit, with complete citations and links to primary sources, is available now at:
