Season 8 - Episode 23

DESCRIPTION: 

The television series ‘Midsomer Murders’ has been on-air since 1997. In a fictional rural setting, each episode of the British crime drama sees an individual harbour dark secrets as part of the ongoing whodunnit murder mystery. In a curious twist of life imitating art, the picturesque village of Furneux Pelham in Hertfordshire became an unwitting backdrop for a real-life murder mystery in 2004. An elderly man had been found dead on the front doorstep of his Grade II listed cottage. News outlets dispatched reporters to Furneux Pelham, and the media began to draw parallels between the murder and the fictional television series. As time passed and the crime went unsolved, life in Furneux Pelham slowly returned to normal. However, sometime later, a jailhouse confession would thrust the village back into the spotlight…

*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** 

This episode was researched and written by Emily G. Thompson.

Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.

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

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

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MUSIC: 

The Edge by Caleb Etheridge 

The Rite by Wicked Cinema 

Dead Ends by Wicked Cinema 

Crooked Man by Wicked Cinema 

St Mary by Chelsea McGough And Stephen Keech 

Point of No Return by Salon Dijon 

Distances by Salon Dijon 

Sussex by Stephen Keech 

Beyond All Time by Moments 

Changing Tide by Moments 

Deceptive Cadence by JCar 

Recognize by Grant Borland 

Winter Train Home by Featherland 

Aurora by Featherland 

Dark Hour by Falls 

Strangers by Craig Allen Fravel 

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin 

Forbidden Wing by Cody Martin 

Depth of Loss by Cody Martin 

The Diary by CJ0 

Woven by Alice in Winter 

Aure by Alice in Winter 

SOCIAL MEDIA: 

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REFERENCES: 

COURT DOCUMENTS:

[2008] EWCA Crim 148

[2013] EWCA Crim 2027

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-saunders-mr-j-r-v-docherty-puncheon.pdf

NEWSPAPERS:

Evening Standard, 9 January, 2004 

The Daily Telegraph, 10 January, 2004

Sunday Telegraph, 11 January, 2004

The Independent, 12 January, 2004

The Daily Telegraph, 12 January, 2004

Evening Standard, 12 January, 2004

The Independent, 13 January, 2004

Evening Standard, 15 July, 2004

The Independent, 15 January, 2004

The Daily Telegraph, 16 January, 2004

The Independent, 16 January, 2004

The Daily Telegraph, 28 January, 2004

The Independent, 28 January, 2004 

Sunday Telegraph, 1 February, 2004 

The Independent, 28 February, 2004 

Evening Standard, 19 March, 2004 

The Independent, 20 March, 2004 

The Independent, 5 June, 2004 

The Daily Telegraph, 5 June, 2004 

The Independent, 7 August, 2004 

Evening Standard, 13 December, 2004 

The Independent, 7 January, 2006 

The Daily Telegraph, 4 October, 2012 

The Daily Telegraph, 5 October, 2012 

Evening Standard, 5 November, 2012 

The Daily Telegraph, 6 November, 2012

The Daily Telegraph, 3 December, 2004 

The Daily Telegraph, 6 December, 2004 

The Daily Telegraph, 28 February, 2006 

Western Daily Press (Bristol, England), February 10, 2006

Birmingham Post, The (England), February 28, 2006

 NEWSBANK:

Times, The (London, England), February 28, 2006

Herald, The/Sunday Herald, The (Glasgow, Scotland), March 3, 2006

Sun, The (London, England), May 5, 2006

Express on Sunday, The (London, England), January 4, 2009

 ONLINE:

https://geppsolicitors.co.uk/site/blog/criminal-law-news/cell-confession-leads-to-guilty-verdict-for-murder/

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2012-10-03/riley-workman-murder-trial

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/05/convicted-murderer-jailed-army-officer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-24728638

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20151531

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20093819

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20093819

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20037043

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19951548

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19853159

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19835362

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19820146

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20170654

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19899125

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20048552

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20153300

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19869649

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-19869649

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/christopher-docherty-puncheon-trial-lover-was-paid-1361458

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/04/christopher-docherty-puncheon-murdered-retired-army-colonel-robert-workman-court-hears_n_1938464.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9586865/Ratcatcher-accused-of-murdering-retired-colonel-was-his-lover-court-hears.html

https://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/22024044.murder-trial-jury-told-traveller-lured-death/

https://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/22843047.murder-victims-home-scheme/

https://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/22013336.appeal-upholds-murder-conviction/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4733846.stm

https://www.thepinknews.com/2006/02/23/traveller-murdered-for-rejecting-gay-advance-court-told/