Murder Most Foul

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

Factual: Crime & Justice

Forensics docu-drama series presented by Nick Ross

Murder Most Foul: Series 3: 2. The Body in the Chalkpit

2. The Body in the Chalkpit

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Murder Most Foul, Series 3, 2. The Body in the Chalkpit

Nick Ross reviews a 1946 case of a body with a noose around the neck

Nick Ross reviews a 1946 case of a body with a noose around the neck. Could forensics prove it was murder? Stars Keith Drinkel.

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

Another murder case featuring Dr Keith Simpson, the celebrated pathologist.

In 1946, a man's body was discovered lying in a shallow trench, a noose around his neck. 

Was it suicide by hanging? 

If so, how did the body come to be found in a Surrey chalk pit..?

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

Written by Rib Davis.

Dr Keith Simpson .... Keith Drinkel
Dr Eric Gardner .... Stephen Thorne
Thomas Ley .... Barry J Gordon

With:

Jonathan Adams
Philip Anthony
Geraldine Fitzgerald
John Fleming
Matthew Morgan
Katherine Parr 
John Webb

Producer: Fiona McLean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1993.

Murder Most Foul: Series 3

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