Season 6 - Episode 15

DESCRIPTION:

It was puzzling, to say the least. Following a tip-off, officers from the Nottinghamshire constabulary were dispatched to an address on Blenheim Close. Located in Forest Town, a former mining village in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the brick-built semi-detached two storey home sits on the corner of a quiet cul-de-sac close to public walkways and green grassland. On that autumn day in 2013, officers slowly filtered through the backdoor into the garden… (Part 1 of 2).

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Court documents and information from the following news organisations were referenced in this episode: BBC NEWS, TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, NOTTINGHAM POST, DAILY MAIL, MANSFIELD CHAD, MIRROR, THE STANDARD, THE TIMES, SKY NEWS and ITV NEWS. 

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MUSIC: 

Arcadia by Cody Martin 

Scintillation by Elision

Exclusion Zone by Hill

Stay With Me by Moments

Colony by Wicked Cinema

The Changing Tides by Brent Wood

Mystery by Third Age

Moonchild by Elision

The Part Where It Begins by Stephen Keech 

Endless Time by Moments

REFERENCES: 

COURT DOCUMENTS

R v Christopher Edwards and Susan Edwards Sentencing Remarks

[2015] EWCA Crim 451

LAW PAGES

https://www.thelawpages.com/court-cases/Susan-Patricia-Edwards-13612-1.law 

https://www.thelawpages.com/court-cases/Christopher-John-Edwards-13611-1.law 

DIGITAL ARTICLES

BBC NEWS

​​https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24522344

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24536540

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24543721

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24565962

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24758969

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24779213

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24776159

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24780923

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24785499

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-24788593

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24805215

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26678871

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27701910

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27714765

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27807878

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27836459

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27939309

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-27943196

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27974914

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-27974912

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-31160322

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-31440482

TELEGRAPH

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10377545/Bodies-found-in-back-garden-could-be-elderly-couple-who-vanished-15-years-ago-police.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10418862/Daughter-of-elderly-couple-who-vanished-15-years-ago-arrested-over-their-murder.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10421592/Pensioners-who-vanished-15-years-ago-were-shot.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10653985/Couple-deny-murdering-parents-and-burying-them-in-back-garden.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10714049/Couple-admit-burying-parents-in-the-garden.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10878227/My-mother-slept-with-my-husband-so-I-killed-her-and-lived-off-her-savings-for-15-years-court-hears.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10898293/Daughter-who-killed-her-mother-tells-of-moment-she-lost-it.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10914853/Fantasist-couple-killed-elderly-parents-to-fund-obsession-with-showbiz-memorabilia.html

THE GUARDIAN

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/14/bodies-mansfield-garden-elderly-couple-police

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/15/murder-inquiry-bodies-mansfield-garden

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/01/elderly-couple-shot-dead-buried

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/02/daughter-son-court-mansfield-murder-wycherley

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/21/mansfield-back-garden-murders-edwards-admit-burying-parents

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/04/daughter-pleads-guilty-manslaughter-parents-buried-garden-mansfield

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/05/elderly-couple-shot-buried-daughter-son-in-law-jury-edwards-wycherley

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/12/woman-accused-parents-murder-mansfield-depardieu-letters-fake

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/19/mansfield-bodies-garden-trial-jury-retires

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/20/woman-murder-parents-bury-garden-guilty

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/20/william-patricia-wycherley-murder-unnoticed-15-years

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/20/couple-buried-parents-garden-convicted-murder

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/23/couple-jailed-parents-murder-edwards-mansfield

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/25/the-murderers-next-door

NOTTINGHAM POST

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/human-remains-mansfield-mystery-grows-249479

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/human-remains-found-mansfield-william-249610

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/human-remains-mansfield-murder-inquiry-249650

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/bone-tests-reveal-more-clues-249707

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/two-arrested-after-bodies-found-249731

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/daughter-held-part-bodies-garden-249754

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/forest-town-bodies-susan-edwards-299751

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/husband-wife-deny-murder-after-250072

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/daughter-son-law-admit-burying-250223

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/wycherley-murder-trial-susan-edwards-250306

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/couple-killed-son-law-daughter-250258

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/mansfield-bodies-garden-trial-susan-250113

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/wycherley-murder-trial-nieces-can-250362

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/mansfield-bodies-garden-trial-surrender-249780

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/bodies-garden-trial-susan-christopher-250150

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/mum-who-lived-wycherley-horror-250446

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/killers-christopher-susan-edwards-blew-250527

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/mansfield-murderer-susan-edwards-loses-250573

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/true-story-behind-landscapers-how-4853737

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/susan-edwards-christopher-edwards-full-3698746

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/notts-detective-shares-personal-story-3730903

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/flowers-never-seemed-grow-there-3757359

DAILY MAIL

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456793/Couple-buried-garden-went-sending-Christmas-cards-10-years-said-disappeared.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2466476/Missing-William-Patricia-Wycherley-The-whodunnit-No-2-Blenheim-Close.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2482078/Daughter-couple-buried-garden-vanishing-15-years-ago-arrested.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483686/Couple-buried-garden-vanishing-15-years-ago-shot.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483993/Daughter-son-law-accused-murdering-William-Patricia-Wycherley-Mansfield.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487130/First-image-daughter-son-law-court-accused-killing-elderly-couple-buried-garden-15-years-vanishing.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507917/Daughter-son-law-elderly-couple-buried-garden-appear-court-charged-murders.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586279/Couple-accused-murdering-parents-great-whodunnit-mystery-admit-burying-yard-nearly-16-years-ago.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2647337/First-picture-elderly-man-buried-garden-wife-shot-dead-daughter-son-law.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2648528/Daughter-elderly-couple-buried-garden-admits-mothers-manslaughter-denies-murdering-parents.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649608/Elderly-couple-shot-dead-daughter-son-law-buried-garden-tricked-relatives-15-years-believing-alive.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656458/Daughter-accused-murdering-parents-obsessed-celebrities.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2663618/Guilty-Woman-murdered-parents-buried-garden-16-years-ago-husbands-help.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2666206/Couple-murdered-wifes-parents-money-buried-garden-16-years-ago-jailed-life-serve-25-years.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2669450/We-great-garden-lot-happy-times-Mother-rents-house-elderly-couple-murdered-buried-lawn-insists-wants-stay.html - Mum who rents Mansfield house where elderly couple were murdered wants to stay

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9429799/How-Susan-Christopher-Edwards-shot-parents-dead.html

MANSFIELD CHAD

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forest-town-missing-couple-central-police-investigations-2320733

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/video-police-confirm-murder-inquiry-launched-after-forest-town-body-find-2320501

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forest-town-murdered-couple-became-more-reclusive-2320391

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/murder-probe-launched-couple-who-vanished-bodies-are-discovered-2320422

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/police-launch-murder-probe-after-body-find-2320426

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forensic-exam-bodies-likely-be-missing-wycherleys-2320219

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forest-town-wycherleys-still-registered-vote-five-years-after-murder-2319470

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/man-and-woman-arrested-over-forest-town-deaths-2318206

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forest-town-couple-found-buried-garden-were-shot-say-police-2317982 

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forest-town-bodies-garden-suspects-appear-court-2315687

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/body-find-pair-deny-murder-2301779

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/forest-town-murder-trial-set-start-june-2286952

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-day-1-daughter-admits-mothers-manslaughter-2284352

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-relatives-speak-shock-deaths-2284037

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-ww2-revolver-most-likely-murder-weapon-2284026

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-we-quite-literally-had-blood-our-hands-2283626

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-experts-refute-edwards-version-events-2283291

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-latest-accused-calls-wife-fantasist-2283183

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-christopher-edwards-knew-nothing-about-money-claim-2283168

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-christopher-edwards-shows-jury-how-fire-handgun-2283119

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-trial-i-hated-my-father-susan-edwards-tells-court-2282956

​https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murders-daughter-and-son-law-guilty-double-murder-2281908

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/breaking-news-killer-couple-serve-minimum-25-years-jail-2281464

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murders-susan-and-christopher-edwards-jailed-minimum-25-years-killing-reclusive-couple-2281450

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murders-how-police-got-edwards-back-uk-2281447

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murder-reserved-couple-vanished-2281445

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murders-forensics-key-investigation-2281444

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murders-timeline-events-2281443

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/video-wycherley-murders-back-garden-2-blenheim-close-2281442

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/funeral-takes-place-murdered-wycherleys-2278332

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/video-funeral-service-tragic-wycherleys-2278331

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/family-bid-farewell-reclusive-couple-who-vanished-2278330

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murder-couple-ordered-pay-back-more-ps270000-death-profits-2274053

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/murder-has-monopolised-our-lives-2261668

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/wycherley-murders-callous-killers-plan-appeal-2261670

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/appeal-refused-wycherley-killers-2259215

https://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/forest-town-bodies-garden-murderer-susan-edwards-loses-bid-have-jail-term-cut-2242834

MIRROR

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mansfield-two-bodies-found-buried-2371584

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mansfield-bodies-susan-edwards-arrested-2664142

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/daughter-son-in-law-elderly-couple-found-2667024

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/elderly-couple-found-buried-back-2667706

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/william-patricia-wycherley-deaths-daughter-3267994

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-whose-parents-were-found-3644776

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/elderly-couple-shot-buried-back-3648441

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-accused-murdering-parents-tells-3690700

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/daughter-husband-killed-parents-buried-3730845

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/daughter-husband-who-killed-parents-3749591

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-describes-nightmare-living-house-3758251

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-who-bought-house-horrors-21308746

THE STANDARD

https://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/garden-bodies-spark-murder-inquiry-8881632.html - Garden bodies spark murder inquiry

https://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/two-charged-with-murdering-couple-8918684.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/pair-remanded-over-couple-murders-8918693.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/couple-admit-burying-dead-parents-9208235.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/couple-shot-and-buried-elderly-parents-in-garden-and-told-relatives-they-were-still-alive-for-15-years-9496316.html

THE TIMES

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/they-sent-cards-say-family-of-couple-buried-in-garden-k62w3dqx79l

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daughter-charged-over-garden-bodies-x6h8zcrtn66

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/couple-admit-burying-parents-in-the-garden-8cgg70qwqqv

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trial-begins-of-couple-who-buried-parents-in-garden-7l0vq6f9fs8

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daughter-claimed-pension-for-15-years-as-parents-lay-under-patio-jm3ntc5zb2m

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/murder-suspect-faked-letters-from-depardieu-9lt2x6z2ptj

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/woman-shot-her-mother-over-child-abuse-taunts-20xplf8hnmk

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/life-for-couple-who-buried-murdered-parents-in-garden-tgnsrxrds8z

SKY NEWS

https://news.sky.com/story/murder-hunt-after-bodies-found-in-garden-10431428

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-garden-bodies-police-appeal-10431215

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-couple-murder-probe-two-arrested-10429742

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-garden-bodies-daughter-arrested-10429675

https://news.sky.com/story/pair-buried-in-garden-died-from-gunshot-wounds-10429639

https://news.sky.com/story/garden-murders-daughter-son-in-law-in-court-10429615

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-bodies-in-garden-couple-in-court-10429416

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-garden-deaths-couple-in-court-10427830

https://news.sky.com/story/pair-admit-burying-parents-bodies-in-garden-10412777

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-bodies-in-garden-trial-as-it-happened-10402207

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-elderly-couple-shot-and-buried-10402185

https://news.sky.com/story/relatives-got-cards-from-murdered-couple-10401974

https://news.sky.com/story/daughter-lost-it-and-shot-mum-after-taunts-10400955

https://news.sky.com/story/mansfield-bodies-in-garden-couple-guilty-10399919

https://news.sky.com/story/bodies-in-garden-couple-jailed-for-life-10399580

ITV NEWS

https://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2013-10-14/mansfield-bodies-disappearance-of-an-elderly-couple-central-to-the-inquiry/

https://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2013-11-01/daughter-of-dead-couple-arrested/

https://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2014-06-20/report-mansfield-couple-found-guilty-of-murdering-parents/

https://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-06-20/garden-bodies-murderers-foiled-by-100th-birthday-request/

https://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2014-06-20/police-mansfield-couple-took-300-000-from-wycherleys/


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