Graeme Rose, creator of the Fred Jeffs: The Sweetshop Murder Podcast, is interviewed by renowned broadcaster Adrian Goldberg.

Produced by Black Country Touring, this was originally recorded 8th April 2021.

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The Italian Connection: Could Fred Jeffs have upset a ‘Don’ of the gelato world by confecting his business on a rival’s Langley turf?

NB: Featuring the music of Fox and Rocha, edited / mixed by GR.

The appearance of new witness, Jan Achcenit, casts fresh light on the events of Maundy Thursday and the attack on Fred Jeffs. However ...closer investigation raises intriguing questions about the witness himself.

NB: This unpolished Bonus material features the music of Fox and Rocha, but has been designed and mixed by GR

In the early hours of Good Friday, teenage Alan Garstang is out hunting with his uncle on Wasson. But how close do they get to witnessing the dumping of Fred's body by the killer?

A week after the discovery of Fred Jeffs's body, the funeral takes place at Quinton Cemetery. The Inquest does little to provide closure and the Police investigation goes cold, but sixty years on, with memories still vivid, can we separate the facts from the fiction? What have we learned about Fred himself? Are we close to cracking the case and finally bringing the story to an end?

Against a backdrop of spawning teen culture, speculation emerges about Fred Jeffs’s secret lifestyle, with the possibility of gangland involvement and even an Italian connection. A new witness appears out of the blue, and the scope of the story gets wider.

As the Police investigation of the murder expands across County boundaries, we pick up on the story of Fred’s faithful dog, ‘Perro’ - the only known witness to the murder - who is discovered on Easter Sunday.

In Ep.4 attention shifts to a young woman seen in Jeffs sweetshop on Maundy Thursday. But who is she? And what has been going on between her and Fred Jeffs? As Police launch a search for the ‘Mystery Woman’, the Press speculate on Fred’s secret life.

News of the crime spreads quickly through the neighbourhood. Interviewees remember first hearing the news of a murder in their midst. For the Police, there is one obvious motive for the crime… robbery!

A few months after recording Ep.2, Graeme was contacted by the granddaughter of David Jones, one of the Smethwick boys who - along with Cyril Blakemore, Alan Jeffrey and John Gough, discovered the body of Fred Jeffs. Here he recalls that fateful Good Friday, 1957.