This week, we’re tackling the grim story of the Red Barn Murder, a tale so twisted it led to one of Britain’s first ever true crime frenzies. 

In the 1800s, Maria Marten was a 24-year-old single mother living in a tiny English village. When she vanished after meeting her fiancé at a local barn (...the Red™ one), her disappearance started a chain reaction of rumors, accusations, and eventually, a trial so sensational that the public needed tickets just to get inside. We’re talking fake elopments, prophetic dreams, uncanny detective work - and at the center of it all, a woman whose story refused to stay buried.

Story starts at: 07:15

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📸Credits 

• Historic England
• Newspapers.com
• Bury St Edmunds
• Victor E Neuburg

📚Sources

• The British Library Board
• Bury St Edmunds
• BBC
• The Crushed Tragedian
• Strange Remains 
• The Newgate Calendar
• Englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com

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