Police Constable John Robert Chapman was on duty when he spotted an elderly farmer waving frantically. Henry Dobson was out of breath and barely able to stand as he finally blurted out to the approaching officer, “My wife! She’s dead. She’s murdered in the field”…
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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, additional audio editing, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Dorset Summer by Moments
Layers by Caleb Etheridge
Road To Nowhere by Caleb Etheridge
Lord Of TheDead by CJ0
Altered Fate by Cody Martin
Loaves&Fish by Cody Martin
Distant Water by Chelsea McGough
Winter Train Home by Featherland
Enigma by Hill
To Explore by In This World
Fallen Sky by Moments
It Comes To This by Moments
Unexpected Turn by Moments
Night Watch by Third Age
Harboring by Salon Dijon
St Mary by Chelsea McGough And Stephen Keech
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British Executions - Volume Seven - 1931 to 1940 by John Eddleston
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