Murder Most Foul

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Forensics docu-drama series presented by Nick Ross

Murder Most Foul: Series 2: 6.  The Bloody Thumbprint

6.  The Bloody Thumbprint

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Murder Most Foul, Series 2, 6.  The Bloody Thumbprint

An elderly couple have been battered to death. The only clue is a bloody thumbprint.

Nick Ross reviews the murder, in 1905, of an elderly couple. Could a bloody clue identify the murderers? Stars Nicholas Murchie.

True tales of murder from the days when police cars had bells and the men from the Yard wore trilby hats.

March 1905: An elderly couple have been battered to death in their shop in south London. 

The only clue is a bloody thumbprint left on the lid of a cashbox. 

Can the police use this evidence to convict the murderers?

BBC TV's Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross reviews the case and the forensic evidence.

Written by Frederick Bradnum.

Alfred Stratton …. Nicholas Murchie
Albert Stratton …. Jonathan Tafler

With: 

Jonathan Adams
John Church
Timothy Carlton 
Terence Edmond
Ronald Herdman
Peter Penry Jones
Ann Windsor
John Webb 
Melanie Hudson

Producer: Tessa Watt.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992.

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