The Deadly Mother-in-Law / Hella Bleicher / Styllou Christofi

When you choose a partner in life, you take on their family, too. Ideally, you get on, and you live in harmony. Some people invite their in-laws into their homes with open arms, unaware that their new family member has left behind a murderous past… 

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This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton. 

Illustrations and production direction also by Rosanna Fitton. Narration, audio editing, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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Court documents and information from the following news organisations and magazines were referenced in this episode: Birmingham Daily Post, The Guardian, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Aberdeen Evening Express, Coventry Evening Telegraph, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, Daily Express, Daily News New York, The Journal Herald, Dundee Courier, Belfast Telegraph, Western Mail, Belfast Newsletter, Newport Daily News, Londonderry Sentinel, BBC News, ‘Murder Casebook’ Magazine and ‘Real-Life CRIMES… and how they were solved’ Magazine.

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MUSIC: 

Allégro by Emmit Fenn

No.2 Remembering Her by Esther Abrami

Clouds by Huma-Huma

No.7 Alone With My Thoughts by Esther Abrami

Dramatic Swarm by Doug Maxwell

It’s Coming by Josh Kirsch / Media Right Productions

Maestro Tlakaelel by Jesse Gallagher

E Minor Prelude by Chopin

No.8 Requiem by Esther Abrami

Pachabelly by Huma-Huma

Surrender by Asher Fulero

All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

REFERENCES:

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES

Birmingham Daily Post 24th June 1955

The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) 31st July 1954 

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 31st July 1954

Aberdeen Evening Express 4th August 1954

Coventry Evening Telegraph 4th August 1954

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 4th August 1954

Daily Express 25th October 1954

Daily News New York 25th August 1954

The Guardian 25th August 1954

The Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio) 25th August 1954

Dundee Courier 27th August 1954

The Guardian 27th October 1954

Belfast Telegraph 28th October 1954

Belfast Telegraph 29th November 1954

Dundee Courier 30th November 1954

Western Mail 30th November 1954

Dundee Courier 14th December 1954

Belfast Newsletter 15th December 1954

Aberdeen Evening Express 15th December 1954

Dundee Courier 15th December 1954

Newport Daily News (Newport Rhode island) 15th December 1954

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 15th December 1954

Times-Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) 15th December 1954

The Journal Times (Racine Wisconsin) 15th December 1954

The Kane Republic 15th December 1954

Dundee Courier 16th December 1954

Londonderry Sentinel 16th December 1954

Western Mail 17th December 1954

MAGAZINES

Murder Casebook [Issue 28]

Real-Life CRIMES… and how they were solved [Issue 48]

DIGITAL ARTICLES

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-48525978 

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/christofi.html 

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/british-judge-rules-on-styllou-s-conviction 

https://www.cyprusalive.com/en/the-story-of-styllou-the-cypriot-murderer-which-as-a-bride-killed-her-mother-in-law-and-as-a-mother-in-law-killed-her-daughter-in-law 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8231583/styllou-christofi 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-pierrepoint  

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