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“I think I will get away with most of it”. Those were the words uttered by a deputy churchwarden while he was in the custody police. He was arrested when his second elderly lover in as many years was admitted to hospital. The first had died under somewhat mysterious circumstances.
How had this man — in his late twenties, who bore all the hallmarks of a god-fearing churchgoer, worked his way not only into the wills but also the beds of a 69-year-old-man and 83-year-old woman, who were neighbours on the same street? That was a puzzle Thames Valley police were determined to solve (Part 1 of 2).
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COURT DOCUMENTS and information from the following news organisations were referenced in this episode: THE GUARDIAN, BBC NEWS, INDEPENDENT, ITV NEWS, DAILY MAIL, BUCKS HERALD, EXPRESS, SKY NEWS, MIRROR and THE SUN.
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MUSIC:
Dark Fog by Kevin MacLeod
The Ten Names by I Think I Can Help You
The Six Realms by I Think I Can Help You
A Walk Into Space by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
The Hungry Ghost by I Think I Can Help You
The Bardo by I Think I Can Help You
Cylinder Four by Chris Zabriskie
Flying Free by Jingle Punks
Dead Waters by Rest You Sleeping Giant
Long Note One by Kevin MacLeod
Arp Ascent by DivKid
A Great Darkness Approaches Can You Feel It by ELPHNT
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
REFERENCES:
COURT DOCUMENTS & CPS RESPONSE
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sentencing-Remarks-R-v-Field-FINALdocx.pdf
https://www.cps.gov.uk/thames-and-chiltern/news/updated-churchwarden-who-manipulated-his-elderly-neighbours-jailed
THAMES VALLEY POLICE
https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2019/october/14-10-19/man-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-murder-and-fraud-offences--maids-moreton-buckinghamshire/
https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2019/october/14-10-19/tribute-to-peter-farquhar/
DIOCESE OF OXFORD
https://www.oxford.anglican.org/the-ben-field-verdict/
DIGITAL ARTICLES
THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/18/peter-farquhar-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/16/buckinghamshire-pensioners-deaths-murder-investigation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/01/church-warden-and-magician-on-trial-for-of-pensioner
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/15/benjamin-field-church-warden-showed-no-emotion-after-death-of-friend-peter-farquhar-court-hears
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/10/church-warden-denies-murdering-lecturer-gaslighting-case
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/19/maids-moreton-trial-hears-accused-drew-up-targets-list
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/09/i-will-get-away-with-most-of-it-the-empty-boast-of-murderer-benjamin-field
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/09/church-warden-benjamin-field-guilty-of-murdering-university-lecturer-in-plot-over-will
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/18/church-warden-jailed-for-life-for-of-university-lecturer
BBC NEWS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42704261
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42720565
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42744090
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46110618
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46122288
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46154827
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47659431
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48120868
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48136277
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48151669
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48189796
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48219919
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48232453
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48255534
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48272001
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48286084
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48299051
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48340883
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48366708
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48478932
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48587536
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48600415
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48624241
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48680716
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48690784
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48748878
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48774354
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48841706
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49090153
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49002436
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48990549
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48996217/maids-moreton-duped-83-year-old-woman-s-call-to-bank
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48996215/maids-moreton-trial-shown-video-of-drugged-victim
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49349924
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49352550/maids-moreton-ben-field-wormed-way-into-victim-s-life
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-50096418
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50069706
INDEPENDENT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/church-warden-and-magician-arrested-as-police-investigate-double-murder-of-elderly-neighbours-a8163266.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murders-buckinghamshire-arrests-peter-farquhar-ann-moore-martin-trial-court-a8621581.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murder-church-warden-magician-pensioner-death-money-will-a8895366.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/enjamin-field-pensioner-magician-murder-hypnotise-plot-oxford-crown-court-a8899131.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murders-buckinghamshire-oxford-crown-court-a8914061.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murder-mirror-messages-god-ann-moore-martin-benjamin-field-a8922896.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murder-trial-death-interest-death-benjamin-field-a8970236.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murder-trial-ben-field-peter-farquhar-court-church-a9050156.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-murder-ben-field-target-list-poison-court-trial-peter-farquhar-a8999091.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/maids-moreton-muder-trial-jailed-life-ben-field-peter-farquhar-court-church-a9161526.html
ITV NEWS
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-01-17/church-warden-and-magician-arrested-after-two-elderly-teachers-murdered-in-the-same-village/
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-04-30/church-warden-and-magician-face-trial-accused-of-murder-plots/
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-04-30/church-warden-and-magician-go-on-trial-for-pensioner-murder/
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-05-01/church-warden-and-magician-go-on-trial-over-pensioners-deaths-in-buckinghamshire-village/
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-06-10/church-warden-denies-murdering-lecturer-and-conspiring-to-murder-his-elderly-lover/
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-08-09/church-warden-found-guilty-of-murdering-university-lecturer/
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-08-09/church-warden-found-guilty-of-murdering-university-lecturer/
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-08-09/sadistic-killer-admitted-interest-in-the-extremes-of-death/
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-08-09/benjamin-field-s-complicated-love-life-showed-his-propensity-to-deceive/
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2019-08-14/family-of-murdered-university-lecturer-speak-out-after-maids-moreton-trial/
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2019-10-18/church-warden-who-murdered-author-will-be-sentenced-today/
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2019-10-18/church-warden-who-murdered-university-lecturer-peter-farquhar-sentenced/
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-10-18/church-warden-jailed-for-at-least-36-years-for-murder-of-university-lecturer/
DAILY MAIL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5275895/Murder-probe-wealthy-public-school-teacher-died.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5282077/Suspect-held-pensioners-deaths-delivered-sermon.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5286805/Suspect-death-riddle-written-victim.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5291531/Retired-teacher-feeling-better-death.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6358699/Police-arrest-church-warden-27-magician-31-teachers-murder.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6361987/Church-warden-magician-charged-murder-teacher-elderly-neighbour.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6833883/Church-warden-magician-deny-murdering-teacher-69-trying-kill-elderly-neighbour.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6931847/Church-warden-magician-accused-plotting-defraud-murder-pensioners-appear-court.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6979803/Church-warden-magician-trial-accused-murder.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6984549/Church-warden-callously-videoed-hallucinating-lecturer-trying-murder.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6989467/Retired-teacher-83-reduced-lovestruck-teen-hypnotic-charm-26-year-old-church-warden.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7000659/Maids-Moreton-murder-trial-Anne-Moore-martin-peter-Farquhar-Buckinghamshire.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7011649/Retired-teacher-69-pictured-betrothal-ceremony-young-lover-allegedly-murdered-him.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7015739/Murder-trial-told-victim-doubts-changing-will.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7026507/Jurors-shown-disturbing-footage-murdered-lecturer.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1924722/Video-Ben-Field-calls-999-111-older-suffered-cut-head.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1924682/Murdered-lecturer-barely-able-talk-lover-spiked-food.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7032169/Church-warden-allegedly-gaslit-elderly-lecturer.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7037953/Church-warden-declared-love-woman-57-years-senior-gaslighting-campaign-court-hears.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7050457/Pictures-messages-God-Ann-Moore-Martin-83-saw-mirror-attempted-murder-plot.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7059285/Elderly-spinster-83-tortured-learning-gaslighted-church-warden.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7125027/Church-warden-28-admits-gaslighting-drugging-victim-69-change-will.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7129539/Lecturer-wrote-church-warden-accused-murdering-deceptive-disloyal.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7133975/Church-warden-boasted-snake-talk-way-old-mans-house-court-hears.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1609040/Video-Aerial-footage-murdered-pensioners-house-Buckinghamshire.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7252041/Church-warden-Ben-Fields-ex-school-friends-tell-arrogant-teenager-secretive-asexual.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7341097/Church-warden-28-guilty-murdering-university-lecturer-69.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/video/video-1983036/Church-warden-faces-life-sentence-sadistic-murder-university-lecturer.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7343195/Murderer-Ben-Field-28-brainwashed-killed-university-lecturer-69-drew-hit-list.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7343197/How-sadistic-church-warden-Ben-Field-28-set-destroy-minds-two-elderly-neighbours.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7401865/Family-murdered-novelist-69-tell-fooled-gaslighting-church-warden.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1994154/Video-like-Agatha-Christie-story-Sister-Peter-Farquhar.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7587461/Church-warden-murdered-elderly-university-lecturer-jailed-36-years.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/video/video-2030382/Church-warden-jailed-murdering-university-lecturer.html
BUCKS HERALD
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/milton-keynes-church-ministers-two-sons-are-arrested-part-double-murder-investigation-714489
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/update-three-men-arrested-connection-maids-moreton-deaths-released-713912
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/men-charged-maids-moreton-murder-case-224255
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/old-bailey-trial-men-accused-over-maids-moreton-pensioner-deaths-694215
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/updated-maids-moreton-murder-trial-opens-oxford-crown-court-851742
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/prosecution-completes-summary-its-case-maids-moreton-murder-trial-849916
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/prosecution-witnesses-take-stand-maids-moreton-murder-trial-849160
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/maids-moreton-victims-fear-its-death-creeping-along-our-houses-one-one-and-if-you-look-it-my-house-next-852270
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/psychiatrist-rules-out-dementia-explanation-victims-behaviour-maids-moreton-trial-806915
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/maids-moreton-murder-accused-takes-stand-i-received-money-sex-688767
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/former-buckingham-student-says-poetic-insults-were-just-sport-maids-moreton-trial-827459
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/accused-admits-grandparents-were-target-maids-moreton-murder-trial-827432
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/maids-moreton-murder-accused-ben-field-was-sadist-who-inflicted-pain-prosecution-alleges-806390
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/ben-field-thought-he-would-get-away-murder-821862
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/maids-moreton-murderer-ben-field-jailed-36-years-821819
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/planning-deception-and-cruelty-towards-his-victims-frankly-staggering-lead-investigator-ben-field-case-speaks-outside-oxford-crown-court-821814
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/maids-moreton-murderer-ben-field-jailed-36-years-821819
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/must-read/ben-field-baptist-ministers-son-who-became-calculated-and-manipulative-murderer-maids-moreton-821818
EXPRESS
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/905815/Midsomer-Murders-suspicious-deaths-Maids-Moreton-Buckinghamshire-murder-inquiry
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/907691/Maids-Moreton-village-murder-suspects-Ben-Field-Martyn-Smith-Peter-Farquhar
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/906437/Maids-Moreton-murder-investigation-documentary-Peter-Farquhar-Ann-Moore-Martin
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1122728/ex-headteacher-ann-moore-martin-killed-church-warden-ben-field
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1164121/church-warder-killer-murder-court-ben-field-peter-farquhar
https://www.express.co.uk/videos/6078269013001/GMB-Madeley-says-Ben-Field-doesn-t-deserve-to-see-sunlight
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1170972/ITV-Good-Morning-Britain-Richard-Madeley-Peter-Farquhar-killer-Ben-Field-interview-video
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1192728/Ben-fields-murder-peter-farquhar
SKY NEWS
https://news.sky.com/story/maids-moreton-three-arrested-in-murder-probe-over-pensioners-deaths-11210223
https://news.sky.com/story/murder-suspects-planned-tv-show-about-victim-peter-farquhar-11212723
https://news.sky.com/story/church-warden-and-magician-charged-over-murders-of-lecturer-and-elderly-neighbour-11547010
https://news.sky.com/story/live-murder-trial-of-church-warden-and-magician-begins-11708362
https://news.sky.com/story/maids-moreton-church-warden-plotted-deaths-for-financial-gain-trial-hears-11708637
https://news.sky.com/story/maids-moreton-church-warden-pretended-to-be-in-love-with-his-alleged-victims-11739245
https://news.sky.com/story/murder-trial-jury-sent-home-early-over-extreme-heat-as-uk-swelters-11769219
https://news.sky.com/video/evil-church-warden-guilty-of-murdering-lecturer-he-tricked-and-seduced-11780990
https://news.sky.com/video/evil-ben-field-guilty-of-pensioners-murder-11780985
https://news.sky.com/video/family-statement-on-callous-killer-ben-field-read-out-after-guilty-verdict-11781141
https://news.sky.com/story/maids-moreton-trial-ben-field-guilty-of-murdering-lover-11780937
https://news.sky.com/story/maids-moreton-murder-evil-ben-field-jailed-for-minimum-of-36-years-for-murdering-lecturer-he-seduced-11837871
MIRROR
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/village-murder-mystery-after-three-11864442
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-church-warden-magician-charged-13547403
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/church-warden-gas-lighted-killed-14980289
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/church-warden-28-magician-32-14984672
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gaslighting-church-warden-26-plotted-14993259
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-picture-retired-teacher-church-15021917
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/murdered-lecturer-struggles-speak-after-15820997
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-photos-messages-god-used-16173708
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-church-warden-28-guilty-18875093
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lecturers-chilling-poem-sneering-murderer-18875485
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cops-fear-churchwarden-28-who-18877815
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/richard-madeley-slammed-over-odd-19019475
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-evil-church-warden-28-20646951
THE SUN
https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/news/footage-from-maids-moreton-in-buckinghamshire-where-police-launched-murder-investigation-into-pensioners-deaths/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5357010/village-oap-deaths-spark-police-probe/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5354302/first-photo-woman-three-arrested-deaths-wealthy-ex-teacher-elderly-neighbour/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5358964/maids-moreton-murder-probe-peter-farquhar-ann-moore-martin/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5360293/peter-farquhar-novelist-teacher-murder-maids-moreton/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5360116/peter-farquhar-died-accidental-alcohol-poisoning/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5384144/midsomer-murder-suspect-lodged-with-victims/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7676439/peter-farquhar-ann-moore-martin-murders-arrests-maids-moreton/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8980777/church-warden-magician-murder-lecturer-wills-sex/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8984118/church-warden-sex-oaps-murder-inheritance/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8990398/lecturers-whiskey-poison-inherit-alcohol-estate/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8993163/church-warden-spiked-oap-lover-toast-murder-trial/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9000274/death-by-sex-gaslight-murder-plot/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9041901/toyboy-lover-28-exchanged-knives-ceremony/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9070565/footage-lecturer-peter-farquhar-murdered-drugs/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9116777/lover-28-messages-god-bathroom-mirror-pensioner-83-signing-will/
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