The Mysterious Case of Fred the Head

By Ken DaviesTrue Crime History

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The Mysterious Case of Fred the Head episodes

October 11 Episode 65 | The Evidence Register
It's great to be back - In the first episode of our new season, we take a moment to recap before steaming ahead with new discoveries. In the first of a 2 part catch up, we look at what we know and set teh foundations for the next set of episodes
24 min
August 23 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 7 | The Alternative Explanation
16 min
July 26 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 6 | The Prisoner
We talk to someone who knew Francis Clarke on the inside of the prison system, and what this tells us about the reality of incarceration for an offender facing a life sentence, but also the crime itself.
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43 min
June 27 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 5 | Two Years Earlier
DCS Bob Stewart, in charge of the Tina Sellars murder investigation had history. He had been the lead detective a famous case two years earlier and had secured life sentences for those involved. It was lauded as a great success.
So he was the perfect man to lead this investigation. Or was he....
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37 min
June 14 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 4 | Maybes and Certainties
The jury was certain. Francis Clarke had murdered Tina Sellars. But as we discovered in the last episode, there are serious doubts as to whether the time required to commit the crime tallied with the window of opportunity that Clarke had to commit it.
As as we find out in this episode, there are other reasons to suspect there was a potentially entirely different explanation for the crime.
But what about the scientific evidence? That's incontrovertible surely?
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21 min
June 06 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 3 | Reasonable Doubt
Francis Clarke has been convicted of the murder of Tina Sellars and starts to serve his life sentence. But something's not quite right about this case.
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35 min
June 02 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 2 | The Clearest of Evidence
For DCS Bob Stewart the pressure to solve the Blackpool Street murder was intensifying, The violent nature of the killing suggest they were dealing with a man who had the potential to murder again. He needed to break the case and he needed to do it fast.
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46 min
May 30 The Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder | Episode 1 | The Last Bus Home
The night of the 15th June 1980 was drizzly and unseasonal. In the Midlands town of Burton upon Trent, an 18 year old student steps off the bus and walks back to her grandparents house.
An hour later she was found murdered and mutilated, but what exactly happened in that next hour? Welcome to the Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder.
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30 min
May 16 Episode 64 | Tracking Hardy
In Part 2 of our deep dive into Anthony Hardy, we're able to establish his exact whereabouts, we speak to those who knew him as a youngster and just maybe there's another Burton murder we need to concern ourselves with.

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23 min
April 12 Episode 63 | Much More Than Anyone Imagines
In November 1972 a young women is murdered in a bedsit flat in Maida Vale, London. That murder is still unsolved. But how on earth could this be connected to our search for Fred?
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26 min

About The Mysterious Case of Fred the Head

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Fifty years ago, on March 26th 1971, the body of a young man was found in a secluded spot, an island in the River Trent with extremely limited access. He was buried in a kneeling position, naked except for socks and a wedding ring. His hands and ankles had been bound.