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