Season 8 - Episode 8

DESCRIPTION: 

On the morning of May 15th, 1979, three boys were playing by the Wyken Basin when they noticed something floating in the water. Curious, they went to take a closer look. They approached the reeds on the water's edge and the object came into focus. It dawned on them that it was a body. Panicked by their discovery, the boys ran to the first adult they could find. They told him what they had seen in the water and in turn he hurriedly contacted the police…

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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

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: 

Ripley by Falls 

Crooked Man by Wicked Cinema 

Introspection by Shimmer 

Distances by Salon Dijon 

Endless Night by Moments 

Venturers Call by Lincoln Davis 

Spooked by jshirts 

Constant Surveillance by JCar 

Hallowed Halls by Adrian Walther 

Recognize by Grant Borland 

Hold This Place by Alice In Winter 

Don't Le Go by Alice in Winter 

Asylum by Cody Martin 

The Search by CJ-0 

Bamburgh by Stephen Keech 

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REFERENCES: 

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES

Birmingham Evening Mail - May 16, 1979 

Birmingham Evening Mail - May 17, 1979 

Birmingham Evening Mail - May 18, 1979 

Birmingham Evening Mail - Jun 9, 1979 

Birmingham Evening Mail - Aug 17, 1979 

Birmingham Evening Mail - Mar 29, 1980 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Jul 28, 1979 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Jul 30, 1979 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 24, 1980 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 25, 1980 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 26, 1980 

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 26, 1980  

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 27, 1980  

Coventry Evening Telegraph - Mar 28, 1980 

Daily Mirror - Mar 25, 1980 

Daily Mirror - Mar 29, 1980 

Sandwell Evening Mail - Mar 25, 1980 

Leicester Mercury - May 16, 1979 

NEWSBANK

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), October 26, 2001

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), October 26, 2001

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), October 30, 2001

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), October 31, 2001

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), May 25, 2002

Daily Mirror, The (London, England), September 13, 2005

Daily Star (England), September 13, 2005

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), October 29, 2005

Yorkshire Post (England), October 31, 2005

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), April 21, 2006

Yorkshire Post (England), June 23, 2006

Bradford Telegraph and Argus (England), May 16, 2008

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), November 6, 2001

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), January 2, 2002

Coventry Telegraph (England), May 21, 2002

North Yorkshire County Publications (England), May 21, 2002

West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Counties Publications (England), May 21, 2002

ONLINE SOURCES

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8036236.woman-tells-of-stabbing-horror/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8035920.accused-had-knife-injury/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8035824.fight-to-save-knifed-woman/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8035793.i-was-set-up-for-stabbing-of-vice-girl/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8035573.double-life-term-for-knife-maniac/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8035574.time-and-time-again-dooley-plunged-the-knife-into-his-lifeless-victim/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8033725.vice-purge-a-success/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8027951.vice-girl-attacker-found-dead-in-cell/

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8027736.killers-death-ends-life-of-fear-for-assault-victim/