Scotland Yard Casebook The Locked Garage Murder – A Chilling 1929 Crime Mystery
News of the Times | Episode 543 | 1929
In the winter of 1929, Southampton held its breath. Behind the padlocked doors of a quiet garage, the decomposed body of an oil agent was found — his pockets empty, his car silent, and the rats already at their work. No one had seen him in two months.

Scotland Yard’s finest were dispatched, and what began as a simple case of robbery soon unraveled into one of the decade’s most perplexing investigations. Was it suicide, as some dared to whisper? Or a carefully staged murder?

With hammers, missing letters, and whispers of accomplices, the case grew darker. And when the man with the scar and his golden-haired companion “Lil” entered the picture, the press erupted — a national manhunt, a courtroom saga, and a verdict that shocked Britain.

✨ And in our Further Particulars —
we trade hammers and handcuffs for gramophones and glamour. While Scotland Yard puzzled over locked garages,

Britain puzzled over talkies. Yes, 1929 was also the year Europe tried to knock Hollywood off its perch with scratchy soundtracks, Siemens, Phototone, and much patriotic optimism.

Proof, if ever needed, that history has room for both gruesome murders and mildly competitive film technology.
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📚 Related cases from the archive: 
1883 & 1927: The Curious Case of James Kelly -  |  EP442 https://youtu.be/JlPJSl6iTlY
1920: A Case of Family Obsession and Murder |  EP476 https://youtu.be/EIPHlzVerd4

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