A woman is found stranged on the South Beach in Yarmouth. A man is put to death for the crime, yet 12 years later another young woman is found in the same spot stranged with a bottlace.
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Pitchforks & Witchcraft
When an elderly man was found brutally slain; the murder was linked to witchcraft by the locals, but could this, and another killing in the area really be the work of supernatural forces?
Potter is undoubtedly lying about his actions at this critical time but the reason for these lies can, for the present, only be a matter for conjectureShe was always a bright, happy little girl who was full of life, never able to sit still as is the case with any three-year-old.
Robert Fabian
A 3-year-old girl skipped the 20 metres from home to an ice cream van to buy an ice pop on a warm summers afternoon. She would never return.
Rosie Palmer was murdered in Hartlepool by her own neighbour, and it took police days to find her just metres from her own home.
She was always a bright, happy little girl who was full of life, never able to sit still as is the case with any three-year-old.
Captain James Smith
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Bitesize Bonus: Martlesham Murder
Doris Shelley was a frail pensioner who had been brutally beaten in her own home and left for dead, yet there seemed to be no motive.
She was almost Churchillian, ‘I’ve lost my husband, I live alone, I’m not going to let it beat me and I can do it without anybody’s help
Frank Ryder
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Buried Alive
If we are to keep or friends close and our enemies closer; where are we meant to keep family. This is the macabre case of grandparents buried alive and found whilst still warm.
I touched it with my garden fork and found it was a hand.
Hannah Stirr
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Murder By Invitation
A man who strangled a woman to death had an extraordinary thing in his pocket as the police arrested him. An invitation to murder.
Frank Hatton was invited to murder a friend in the town of Middlesbrough during 1969.
When I came back from the public house she said that, because I told her she was silly and didn’t mean what she was saying, she had written it down because she did mean what she was saying.
Frank Hatton
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Bitesize Bonus: Kegworth Killing
The senseless murder of an elderly woman in her own home left a tight-knit community shook in January of 1978.
Marie Lister was set upon in her own home, and as yet, no one has be caught from her brutal slaying.
Whoever is responsible for the murder of Mrs Lister is a dangerous person and who knows what he might do if he were put in a bad tempe
Detective Chief Superintendent Basil Saunders
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Cherish The Blood
“Cherish the Blood” was what one of the killers cried out after carrying out a despicable hate crime in the days after 9/11. In this episode, we take a look at how on a warm Septembers night, a 17-year-old boy was hunted down, brutally attacked and left to die alone within minutes of hearing the words “You’d better run”.
It was just unbelievable, and such a shock to the system. It’s just one of those things you don’t think will ever happen.
Tony Parker
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Police Sergeant Strangler
When a police sergeant was involved in a car accident, he had a large object wrapped in the back of his van. A few weeks later a body was recovered from a river.
I mean an evil eye
Raymond Beard
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The Executioner
The executioner John Thrift was a hated man in London and even carried out the last beheading in English history. Curiously he was convicted of murder himself – yet was back at work as hangman merely months later.
Thrift at this time strike the deceased one blow on the left side of the head with a hanger
William Carrier
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