Caroline Mary Luard

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Caroline Mary Luard (d. August 24, 1908) was the victim of an unsolved murder known as the Luards Case or the Seal Chart Murder after she was mysteriously shot and killed in her isolated summerhouse in a heavily wooded area near Sevenoaks, Kent. Her husband, Major General Luards, later discovered her body and was eventually accused of her death after authorities failed to find a suspect, and committed suicide soon after. It has since been suggested that a likely suspect may have been John Dickman, who was hanged for shooting and killing a passenger on a train in 1910.