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In May 1996, ninety-four year old Dorothy Wood said goodnight to her care worker who had come by to get her ready for bed. Profoundly deaf and crippled by arthritis, Dorothy struggled to complete even the most simplest of household tasks, but she was adamant she would keep her independence. The following morning when family friends arrived to help her out of bed and get her breakfast, they found that someone had broken into the house and Dorothy had been murdered. It would not take long for police to hone in on a suspect, but would they have the right man?
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Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
SOURCES
https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/who-killed-dorothy-wood-crime-14184036
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/235721.stm
https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/murder-spinster-stays-mystery-5092265
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1452346/Expert-evidence-flaws-clear-earprint-killer.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jan/23/ukcrime1
https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/new-look-dorothys-murder-case-5063931
http://netk.net.au/UK/Dallagher.asp
https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/cleared-murder-after-seven-years-5092262
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/judge-frees-earprint-murder-case-man-1-2540588
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-convicted-on-ear-prints-is-freed-185827.html
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Early one February morning in 2010, local Watford refuse worker Gary Bennett was woken up just before 5 am with a nudge from his mum. He put on his work gear and walked out the door. Later that morning two schoolboys found Gary’s savagely beaten body in a local park. But how had Gary gotten there? He had not ridden his bike as he usually did, It wasn’t even on his route to work. Over the next few months, Hertfordshire Police would hone in on one man, but would they ever get all the answers?
Watch Murdertown exclusively on Crime+Investigation in the UK, and then listen here as Benjamin Fitton from They Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location.
Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
SOURCES
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gary_bennett_murder_trial/
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/video/97230/?page=4
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/5025312.Breaking_news__Man_s_body_found_in_park
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/5028744.Murder_victim_worked_for_Watford_Borough_Council/
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/5063462.Man_arrested_in_Gary_Bennett_murder_investigation/
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/5068145.Man_charged_with_Gary_Bennett_murder/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/8700469.stm
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In 1951, headmistress of the Burton-On-Trent High School, Winifred Mulley had dismissed six hundred girls for the Summer. Winifred lived in a house on the grounds of the school. She was signing off on a new home she had just purchased in Burton and was preparing to leave for her Summer holiday. She wasn’t feeling very well and so rather than leave that day for her trip; she decided to postpone it and get some rest. The following day when the domestic helper Mrs. Plummer knocked on the door, Winifred didn’t answer. Her bedroom door was locked and a cup of tea with a spoon— which Winifred never used, was sitting on the kitchen table. When the door was finally opened, what Mrs. Plummer saw would haunt her forever.
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Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
SOURCES
Selection of Historical Newspaper Articles 1951 - 1964:
The Daily Mirror
The Courier & Advertiser, Scotland
The Yorkshire Post
The Birmingham Gazette
The Coventry Evening Telegraph
The Manchester Guardian
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When Harry and Megan Tooze’s neighbours heard two gunshots coming from the couple’s farm in Llanharry, South Wales they didn’t think twice. Harry had always had trouble with rabbits and they assumed he was shooting them out of his cabbages again.
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SOURCES
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19930728/014/0004
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19930803/032/0004
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19930826/050/0007
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19931209/085/0009
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/couple-shot-dead-at-remote-farm-1487607.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/murder-conviction-quashed-1.43324
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-alibi-evidence-in-tooze-shooting-1618464.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/i-will-not-stop-until-jonathan-is-free-1618905.html
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19960426/392/0030
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001874/19960905/567/0064
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2728525.stm
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On a quiet Sunday morning in 1974, father of five Michael Taylor was found naked in the street in Ossett, Yorkshire, covered in what was thought to be red paint. As Police Constable Ian Walker approached him, he realised it was not red paint at all— it was blood. When Michael Taylor began screaming that it was the blood of Satan, backup was called in and what unfolded would change the town forever.
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Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location.
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SOURCES
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11290611
https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/1974-exorcist-killer-back-before-court-1-931236
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259735511/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/56205697/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/257858183/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259714848/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259719053/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259720761/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259734212/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259735268/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
https://www.newspapers.com/image/259824796/?terms=Michael%2BTaylor%2Bexorcism
Times [London, England] 24 Apr. 1975:
2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.
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Thirty year old Lynda Hunter woke up one Friday in August 1987 with morning sickness and was glad she and her husband Andrew had that day off. They had been married less than a year and she was thrilled about the baby who was six weeks along. Lynda and Andrew went to the pharmacy and then onto the doctor for some relief. When she got home later that morning she packed a bag for her nightshift which wasn’t until the following day and said she had decided to go to her parents— she would tell them about the baby. According to Andrew, she was in a bit of a mood. He asked for a lift into town but before he could gather his things she and Shep the dog were gone. When Lynda’s sister arrived at the couples cottage later that day for a visit she had arranged, there was still no sign of her, in fact Lynda had never gone to her parents at all— so where was she?
Watch Murdertown exclusively on Crime+Investigation in the UK, and then listen here as Benjamin Fitton from They Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location.
Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
SOURCES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiyOTaXvsc&index=2&list=PL5LzvOWSLAydUtcxVJkl5w3-UR3i1tMGi
Smith, Murray. Trainspotting. London: British Film Institute, 2002. Stollery, Martin. Trainspotting. London: York, 2001.
https://philosophyinfilm.com/2014/04/18/trainspotting-and-the-dilemma-of-scottish-national-identity/
http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/bygone-news/july-1988
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11922460.Husband_loses_murder_appeal/
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/a-sex-mad-killer-in-the-salvation-army-960821
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In 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, just south of Dartford, two young women were murdered five months apart. Both lived alone in bedsits less than a mile from one another, both worked on Camden Road, both ate lunch at the same cafe. The women didn’t know each other, but they will forever be remembered together for their murderer was never caught. In 2007, with advances in forensics, a full DNA profile was obtained from minute evidence from one of the crime scenes. But would the killer be caught or is he still out there?
Watch Murdertown exclusively on Crime+Investigation in the UK, and then listen here as Benjamin Fitton from They Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location.
Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
SOURCES
2007 APPEAL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8453919.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6957446.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6954760.stm
25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/serial-killer-murdered-wendy-knell-905508
https://www.heart.co.uk/kent/news/local/appeal-over-25-year-old-murder/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-18532610
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/serial-killer-murdered-wendy-knell-905508
www.mirror.co.uk/news/serial-killer-murdered-wendy-knell-905508.amp
BLOG:
http://wolfiewiseguy.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-unsolved-murders-of-wendy-knell.html
CRIMEWATCH:
DNA:
The Guardian: Case Closed 17th Jan 2008
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jan/16/ukcrime.forensicscience
PCR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction
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In December 1979 a fire broke out while four boys and their mother slept in their two story council house in Hull, Yorkshire. Edith Hastie and young Tommy escaped with their lives but three of the brothers would not survive. Police realised quickly that the fire was deliberately lit and chased rumours all over Hull until an unlikely source gave himself away. But this wasn’t the end, it was just the beginning.
Watch Murdertown exclusively on Crime+Investigation in the UK, and then listen here as Benjamin Fitton from They Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location.
Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
SOURCES
- Hull, Hell & Fire written by Detective Sergeant Ronald Sagar and published by Highgate Publications (Beverley) Ltd, 1999.
- Various historical newspaper articles from The Guardian, The Observer, The Liverpool Echo and The Newcastle Journal.
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_George_Peter_Leehttp://web.archive.org/web/20150209235314/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/bruce_lee/1.htmlhttp://crimefeed.com/2017/06/31074/
http://www.robertkellerauthor.com/2015/10/serial-killers-bruce-peter-george-lee.html?m=1
http://crimefeed.com/2017/06/31074/
http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_George_Peter_Lee
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Are you ready to delve into the dark side of your town? These are the true crime stories from 10 towns across the UK. Ten stories of people who might appear just like us — but capable of evil. These are the stories of Murdertown.
Watch Murdertown exclusively on Crime+Investigation in the UK, and then listen here as Benjamin Fitton from They Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location.
Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.
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