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8: The Taxi Cab Murders Dec 01, 2019

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In the course of 6 months between 1983 and 1984, two taxi drivers were murdered in the same area of London and their cabs were abandoned in the same area. Stephen Sylvester and Pardeep Sangha were both brutally stabbed to death. A year prior the murder of Gurcharn Singh Landa was committed in very similar circumstances in Nottingham. Were any of these unsolved murders connected?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiYyEoM2q_8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.reddit.com/r/ColdCaseUK/comments/cp2jv0/the_1982_murder_of_taxi_driver_gurcharn_singh/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-19200976
https://www.capitalfm.com/eastmids/radio/news/local/30-years-murder-case-re-opened/
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7: Deborah Linsley Nov 24, 2019

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On the 23rd March 1988 Deborah Linsley boarded a train headed for London Victoria. She had been visiting family in Bromley, South East London and was heading back up to Edinburgh where she worked as the head receptionist at a hotel.She boarded the train at 2:18pm and it pulled up to Victoria as planned at 2:50pm that afternoon. Staff went to check the train carriages for lost luggage but instead came upon a horrific sight. They found Deborah on the floor and the carriage covered in blood.
This episode is in thoughtful memory of Deborah Linsley.
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https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2018/03/23/police-appeal-for-information-30-years-after-woman-stabbed-to-death-on-train/
Crimewatch Episode April 1988- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gunvNwICLM
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/unsolved-murder-bromleys-debbie-linsley-16293127
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/16/ukcrime.foodanddrink
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6: The Arran Mystery Nov 17, 2019

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On the 13th July 1889, Edwin Rose was on holiday on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. He decided to climb the mountain of Goatfell as many other tourists were doing at the time. His trip appeared to be going as planned however when he did not return to London as scheduled on the 18th of July his brother and his friends became concerned. The police got involved in the search for the missing tourist and what initially seemed as though it was a tragic accident turned into a murder investigation and a manhunt for the man who called himself Annandale.
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https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-arran-murder/ written by Richard Jones
Contemporary news articles found on https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/29/century-arran-dramatic-ian-jack
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/scottish-mysteries-murder-at-the-top-of-goatfell-1-4187602
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11926905.grisly-tale-of-murder-and-a-pair-of-buried-boots/
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/mountain-top-death-did-he-slip-or-was-he-pushed-1-465841
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5: Stanley Setty Nov 10, 2019

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On the 4th October 1949, Stanley Setty disappeared from London with £1500 in his pocket and simply vanished. His car was in its usual parking space and Scotland Yard could find no indications as to where he might have gone. Stanley was a used car dealer and it was feared he may have been robbed. Just under 3 weeks later a discovery was made by a man at the local salt marshes called Dengie Flats. A parcel containing human remains. The subsequent investigation would find a horrific story and a very violent man.
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An amazing resource for information about the time and Hume's life- http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2013/04/warren-street-and-the-murder-of-stan-the-spiv-setty-by-brian-donald-hume-in-1949/
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/donald-hume-the-setty-case
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
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4: The Ecchinswell Doll Oct 27, 2019

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On the 30th of September 1975, cowman Jock Stewart was walking just outside of the town of Ecchinswell in Hampshire. As he walked along he noticed something in an open drain behind a demolished cottage. As he got closer he noticed that it was a partially naked woman wrapped up in a bed blanket. The investigation began into who this woman was and due to her small features she became known as the Ecchinswell Doll. The investigation would last several years and would cross many different countries.
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The Reading Evening Post articles on https://www.findmypast.co.uk (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/)
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2009141.unravelling-the-doll-face-murder-mystery/
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3: Harry Baker Oct 20, 2019

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On the 6th June 1958, Harry Baker set out to visit his customers in the town of Bootle, just 3 miles from the city of Liverpool. He worked as a credit draper selling clothes door to door and collecting the money. He was reliable and punctual and was known as a kind man. After 1pm that day however he simply vanished. The investigation that followed was one of the largest the North West had ever seen.
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https://www.findmypast.co.uk/ - Contemporary news articles
https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/14558838.details-of-unsolved-murders-in-knutsford-and-across-cheshire-released-by-police/
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2: The Mansion House Mystery Oct 13, 2019

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67 year old Jean Milne lived in a large mansion called Elmsgrove in Broughty Ferry, in the suburbs of Dundee, Scotland. Miss Milne was wealthy and loved to dine out at expensive restaurants. She also had quite an eccentric lifestyle living in what some people had labelled her 'Bleak House.' At the start of November 1912, the postman alerted police to the fact that her letterbox was full and he was concerned about Miss Milne. The police entered the home and found her battered and bruised at the foot of her stairs. Jean Milne had been murdered. A huge investigation began that took police around the country and around the world.
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https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://broughtyferrycommunitycouncil.org/history/The%20Mansion%20House%20Murder%20Mystery.pdf
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/murder_files_of_jean_milne
http://oldglasgowmurders.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-murder-of-jean-milne-broughty-ferry.html
https://www.historyscotland.com/history/an-edwardian-murder-in-broughty-ferry-100-years-on/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11920306.the-downfall-of-a-man-called-trench/
Further Reading: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-secret-life-and-curious-death-of-miss-jean-milne/andrew-nicoll/9781845029821
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1: The Murder of Jean Townsend Oct 06, 2019

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On the 14th September 1954, 21 year old Jean Townsend was walking home from South Ruislip train station in Greater London. She was returning home from an evening out with her friends. She did not make it home. The next morning her body was found a piece of wasteland only a few streets away from the station. An investigation into her murder would uncover a number of other worrying incident in what was later described as Ruislip's murder mile.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25056232
ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jean_Townsend (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jean_Townsend)
https://www.sundaypost.com/news/uk-news/why-im-sure-the-yorkshire-ripper-killed-gloria/
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40: The Camden Town Murder Sep 22, 2019

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On the 12th September 1907, Bertram Shaw returned home to find his mother waiting on his doorstep at St Pauls Road in Camden Town, London. She told him she couldn't get in and his common law wife Emily wasn't answering the door. Bertram forced the door open and when inside he found a horrible scene. Emily was in their bed and she had been murdered. An investigation ensued and a trial would happen in Emily Dimmock's case. Edward Marshall Hall or as he was known The Great Defender was part of the trial and it was certainly a sensational one.
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https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.johnbarber.com/the-camden-town-murder/
https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/camdentownmurder.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Town_Murder
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39: John Stonehouse Sep 08, 2019

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On the 20th November MP for Walsall North ,John Stonehouse went for a swim on the beach close to the Fontainbleu Hotel in Miami, Florida. When he didn't return for an appointment, his business associate James Charlton went out to look for him but found only a pile of his clothes in a beach hut. The police, Scotland Yard and the FBI became involved in searching for him and a huge investigation was launched. This case was however not what it appeared to be.
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https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/politics/2019/02/28/from-soviet-spy-to-the-disappearing-man-how-ex-mp-john-stonehouse-still-fascinates/
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2013/apr/26/john-stonehouse-faked-death
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-43732246/john-stonehouse-the-mp-who-faked-his-death
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/archives-rise-fall-john-stonehouse-153826
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2019/02/28/from-soviet-spy-to-the-disappearing-man-how-ex-mp-john-stonehouse-still-fascinates/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-mp-john-stonehouses-reggie-4641124
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/ - for all contemporary news articles.
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