Who would you bet on if it came to BuzzFeed and the BBC? Yeah, I’d bet on the BBC too but… in this case, BuzzFeed wins. I came across two videos on the Bella in the Wych Elm mystery a few months ago and watched both of them. Not even comparable. BBC’s Snapshot: A 2-Minute […]
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There are so very many podcast, videos, blog posts and articles about Bella in the Wych Elm. Including this one! Every time one pops up, I take a look at it and usually, I am disappointed. Most of them just seem to be a regurgitation or rehashing of other, often erroneous, articles/posts/videos. They just add
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This is the second book about the Hagley Wood Murder (a.k.a. Bella in the Wych Elm Murder) that I have read this year. The first book, by M.J. Trow is a sad and disappointing volume which mixes fiction with fact. It contributes nothing to the investigation of the case and actually muddies the waters even
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A few months back, I read M.J. Trow’s 2023 volume on the Bella in the Wych Elm mystery. The book was a disappointment. It suffered from a number of errors and inaccuracies. On top of that, the dearth of source citations meant that readers and researchers were left wondering what was fact and what was
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I am always interested in books about Bella in the Wych Elm and when I received an email from fellow author David Tremain about M.J. Trow’s book, I ordered a copy. I read it several months ago and have been trying to calm down since then. Suffice to say, it was not the most enjoyable
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Original Air Date – 19 October 2022Episode – The Trail Went Cold – Episode 299 – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?Duration – 58:11 minutesHost – Robin Warder Whenever I hear a podcast host with a North American accent, about to tell the British story of Bella in the Wych Elm, I cross my
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While listening to some podcasts on the Bella in the Wych Elm mystery, I was struck by one claim which didn’t sound right. This extract is from the Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories podcast, Episode 165 (part 1 of their Bella trilogy). The excerpt below comes from around the 16:30 mark of the podcast. Narrator:
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I discovered a veritable treasure trove of podcasts the other week and quickly found a whole bunch related to Bella in the Wych Elm. I thought I would start with a trilogy from Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories, produced by Parcast. The three part series starts with an overview of the murder and the various
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The Book Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm: Volume 2 – A Crime Shrouded in Mystery. Alex Merrill. APS Publications. 2019. Summary The mystery of who put Bella in the Wych Elm has an enduring fascination. Over the decades, theories of whose skeletal remains were found in a hollow tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire,
In the mid-1950s, after “Anna of Claverley” wrote her cryptic letter to journalist Wilfred Byford-Jones (a.k.a. Quaestor), the police were able to track down and interview the letter writer, one Una Abel Mossop. Una claimed that in 1941 her husband, Jack Mossop, had told her a story about a mysterious Dutchman named van Raalte and
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