Last month, I ordered the West Mercia Police files on the Bella in the Wych Elm case. The price was a bit steep but… the idea of actually being able to access historical documents on the case was too tempting. The archivist at the Worcestershire County Archives admitted that the files contained quite a bit […]
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Original Air Date – 30 January 2016Episode – Casefile – True Crime Podcast – Case 4 on YouTube – Who Put Bella in the ‘Witch’ ElmDuration – 31:48 minutesHost – Anonymous Yet another podcast on Bella in the Wych Elm! This one is put out by a team of Australians and is actually quite good.
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The Podcast – 13 O’clock Podcast – Murder by Witchcraft? Bella in the Wych Elm and the Warwickshire Pitchfork Murder (2017)Original Air Date – 25 July 201713 o’clock podcast – Episode 49 on YouTubeDuration – 56:06 minutes (Segment on Bella from 11:30 to 28:10Hosts – Tom Ross & Jenny Ashford I came across this podcast/YouTube
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I hit the jackpot a few weeks ago in the case of Clara Bauerle. At least… I think it’s a jackpot. I was doing a search on Ancestry for Clara’s name, something that I do on a fairly regular basis. New documents are always being digitized and I cycle through some of the key names,
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The Show – Travel Channel – Mysteries at the Museum – Woman in the Wych Elm – Season 12, Episode 8 (2016)Original Air Date – 11 November 2016TV Series – Mysteries at the MuseumTime Stamp – 25:32 to 31:29 and 3 minutes at the endOptomen Productions Last summer (2016), I was contacted by the archivist
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A few weeks ago (August 4, 2017), the HD Paranormal film on Bella in the Wych Elm was released and screened to an audience of 400-plus people in Stourbridge Town Hall. According to audience reviews, it was a very engaging film. There are a few reviews of the film which offer some tantalizing hints of
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The Book Rough Justice – The True Story of Agent Dronkers, the Enemy Spy Captured by the British; David Tremain; Amberley Publishing; The Stroud, Gloucestershire; 2016. Summary Johannes Marinus Dronkers was a poor sod of a guy. A Dutchman who struggled to make a living in Nazi-occupied Holland, he was an easy mark for the
The Book Bella in the Wych Elm – In Search of a Wartime Mystery – by Andrew Sparke – 2014 and 2016 Summary I came across reference to this book through the HD Paranormal site – the people who are doing a film on Bella in the Wych Elm (due to be released in August
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I wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago about the release of the police files from the Bella in the Wych Elm case. The files now reside in the custody of the Worcestershire Archives. I emailed them asking about digitization of the files, access, etc. The files have been digitized (yay!) and include
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The Book Spion Tegen Churchill – Leven en dood van Jan Willem ter Braak (Spy Against Churchill – Life and Death of Jan Willem ter Braak); Jan Willem van den Braak; WalburgPers; 2017 (in Dutch) Summary You only have to read the title of this book and the author’s name to do a bit of
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