[1] Thorne murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 22 April 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex, and later dismembered and buried her body.
[2] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, lived in Crowborough and took an interest in the case.
It became apparent that Cameron had psychological problems and Thorne, who had started seeing another woman, no longer wanted to marry her, although he did not have the courage to tell her.
[2] On Friday 5 December 1924, Cameron travelled from London to Crowborough, Sussex, to stay with Thorne for a planned visit.
[2] On 15 January Thorne gave a statement to the police admitting that he had dismembered the body, and he told them where it was buried.
[2] A BBC investigative programme, Murder, Mystery and My Family, series 3, episode 3, broadcast in 2019, re-examined the evidence with two barristers and a judge.