DESCRIPTION:
In the years following the murders of Alexander and Dorothy Wood, urban legend surrounding the case spread, with unsubstantiated claims published in the newspaper pages across Britain. Rumours suggested that the killer had posed the bodies, their glassy open eyes staring out through a basement window. It was said, they were positioned to face the direction of the church across the road, where they stayed until they were discovered...
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Court documents and information from the following news organisations and books were referenced in this episode: Aberdeen Evening Express, Sunday Mirror, Belfast Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Newcastle Journal, Liverpool Echo, The Guardian, East Kent Times and Mail, Thanet Times, Aberdeen Press and Journal, Reading Evening Post, Glasgow Herald, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Dundee Evening Telegraph, The Courier, Daily Record and ‘The Law Killers: True Crime from Dundee’ by Alexander McGregor
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MUSIC:
80s Cop Show by Twin Musicom
Deep Space by Audionautix
Horror House by Aaron Kenny
Aurora by Kevin Hartnell
Routine Drone by Uuriter
Homeland Cassette by Uuriter
Closer to the Sun by Rest You Sleeping Giant
Ebow Song by Rest You Sleeping Giant
For Anna by Rest You Sleeping Giant
Rue Lake by Kevin Hartnell
A Stranger Thing by Bruno E.
Addicted by VYEN
Hearth by Rest You Sleeping Giant
Open Sea Morning by Puddle of Infinity
Phantoms by Three Chain Links
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
REFERENCES:
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Aberdeen Evening Express - 26th May 1980
Sunday Mirror - 25th May 1980
Belfast Telegraph - 26th May 1980
Daily Express - 26th May 1980
Daily Mirror - 26th May 1980
Newcastle Journal - 26th May 1980
Liverpool Echo - 27th May 1980
Daily Mirror - 27th May 1980
The Guardian - 27th May 1980
East Kent Times and Mail - 28th May 1980
Thanet Times - 28th May 1980
Aberdeen Evening Express - 29th May 1980
Aberdeen Press and Journal - 29th May 1980
Reading Evening Post - 29th May 1980
Belfast Telegraph - 30th May 1980
Daily Mirror - 30th May 1980
East Kent Times and Mail - 30th May 1980
Glasgow Herald - 30th May 1980
Newcastle Journal - 30th May 1980
The Guardian - 30th May 1980
Liverpool Echo - 2nd December 1980
Newcastle Evening Chronicle - 2nd December 1980
Belfast Telegraph - 3rd December 1980
Daily Mirror - 3rd December 1980
The Guardian - 3rd December 1980
Aberdeen Press and Journal - 12th December 1980
Daily Mirror - 12th December 1980
Aberdeen Evening Express - 15th December 1980
Belfast Telegraph - 16th December 1980
Thanet Times - 16 December 1980
East Kent Times and Mail - 17th December 1980
East Kent Times and Mail - 24th December 1980
Thanet Times - 30th December 1980
Evening Telegraph (first edition) - 15th January 2018
DIGITAL ARTICLES
DUNDEE EVENING TELEGRAPH
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/location-of-dundee-double-murder-still-set-to-become-bar/
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/revealed-killers-confession-to-double-murder-in-dundee-40-years-ago/
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2013/09/24/crimes-of-the-80s-carnage-at-roseangle/
THE COURIER
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/1321020/long-read-the-gruesome-double-murder-at-roseangle-house-of-horrors-which-still-haunts-dundee-after-40-years/
DAILY RECORD
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/scotlands-bloody-history-houses-horror-10621797
OTHER / BLOGS
https://governmentauctionsuk.com/2017/06/06/spookydundee-murder-house-auctioned-off/
https://www.dundeewestchurch.org
https://vymaps.com/GB/St-Ethelbert-s-Church-Ramsgate-439653546213469/
BOOKS
‘The Law Killers: True Crime from Dundee’ by Alexander McGregor
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