On a winter evening in 1931, a soft-spoken insurance agent was lured from his Liverpool home by a strange telephone message. The address he searched for didn’t exist. By the time he returned, his wife had been brutally murdered. Who was the caller? Was the alibi a masterstroke of deception? Or did someone exploit the perfect opportunity?

Tried. Convicted. Acquitted.

 Nearly a century later, the murder of Julia Wallace remains one of the most baffling cases in British criminal history.

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Jonathan Goodman – The Killing of Julia Wallace

The Julia Wallace Murder Foundation

Wikipedia – William Herbert Wallace

Wikipedia – R v Wallace (1931)

The Unredacted – The Killing of Julia Wallace: An Impossible Murder

Chess Notes by Edward Winter – Wallace Case

The Spectator Archive – "The Wallace Case"

Murder Archives: Liverpool Echo Retrospectives