Ep 291 is loose and we have a rogue and swindler on our hands in the form of John Reginald Birchall!

Who was this carefree Englishman? How did he get involved in Canadian farming? And was his wife ANY good on stage?

The secret ingredient is...a farm!

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Sources this week include:Killers Cavalcade: A Collection of historical British murders.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3623764/Murder-in-the-marshes

archives.oxfordcounty.ca/media/44upwxod/student-resource-the-historical-trial-of-reginald-birchall.pdf

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6562577.detective-lied-improve-image/

murderpedia.org/male.B/b/birchall-reginald.htm

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