Season 7 - Episode 31

DESCRIPTION: 

Henrietta Sutherland rushed into the dining room at 31 Buckingham Terrace in Edinburgh. The maid to the Merrett family found 55-year-old Bertha unconscious on the floor, with a pool of blood around her head. Bertha’s 17-year-old son, Donald, was standing next to her when Henrietta entered the room. It was shortly after 9 AM on March 17th, 1926. The maid had been alerted by the sound of a single gunshot. When asked what had happened, Donald explained that he had been arguing with his mother, and she shot herself. However, not everything was as it seemed…

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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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MUSIC: 

Haunted by Stephen Keech  

Distant Water by Chelsea McGough 

Life Giving by Moments 

Continuum by Colossus 

The Predator by Phillip Mount 

Those Lost by Moments 

Onward by Chelsea McGough 

Believe In Me by Moments 

Enigma by Hill 

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REFERENCES: 

NEWSPAPERS

The Birmingham Mail - Feb 12, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Feb 15, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Feb 17, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Feb 18, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Feb 20, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Feb 23, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Mar 23, 1954 

The Birmingham Mail - Mar 24, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 12, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 15, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 17, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 18, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Feb 19, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 23, 1954 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 25, 1954 

The Birmingham Post - Feb 17, 1954 

The Birmingham Post - Feb 20, 1954 

The Birmingham Post - Feb 22, 1954 

The Birmingham Post - Mar 25, 1954 

Bristol Evening Post - Feb 17, 1954 

Bristol Evening Post - Feb 18, 1954 

Bristol Evening Post - Feb 19, 1954 

Bristol Evening Post - Feb 23, 1954 

Bristol Evening Post - Mar 23, 1954 

Bristol Evening Post - Mar 24, 1954 

Evening Sentinel - Feb 12, 1954

The Guardian - Dec 4, 1926

The Guardian - Feb 2, 1927

The Daily Telegraph - Feb 2, 1927

Evening Standard - Feb 4, 1927

Leicester Mercury - Feb 4, 1927

The Gloucestershire Echo - Feb 5, 1927 

Evening Despatch - Feb 7, 1927 

Birmingham Gazette - Feb 8, 1927 

ARCHIVES

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/collections/medicalhumanities/forensic%20medicine/casefiles/johndonaldmerrett1926-27/

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173605 

NEWSBANK

EdinburghLive (Scotland), January 25, 2021

Daily Record, The (Glasgow, Scotland), May 8, 2006

Daily Mirror, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), May 30, 2018

Edinburgh Evening News (Scotland), February 26, 2009

Times, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), April 6, 2021

Leicester Mercury (England), June 14, 2001

News of the World (London, England), February 16, 2003

Evening Standard: Web Edition Articles (London, England), December 4, 2013

Times, The (London, England), January 10, 2008

Sunday Times, The (London, England), June 9, 1996

BOOKS

Lethal Witness by Andrew Rose 

Chesney: The Middle Class Murderer by Jonathan Oates