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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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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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