154: The Murder of Dr Helen Davidson | England

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On a gloomy November afternoon in 1966, 49-year-old Dr Helen Davidson, a beloved GP, was bashed to death in Hodgemoor Wood while birdwatching. Her body was found the following day and as soon as news of her murder hit her hometown the rumour mill began to churn. Who would kill the beloved doctor? Did she stumble across something she shouldn’t have seen? Or was the murder personally motivated – what was at play: jealousy, vengeance perhaps? To this day, the case with more suspects than convictions remains unsolved. It is a true murder mystery, a whodunnit that played out rather more like an Agatha Christie mystery than a real-life crime.

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0:56.0	It was a gloomy fall afternoon in Buckinghamshire and police were out in force, searching for a missing physician.
1:03.0	49-year-old Dr. Helen Davidson was an avid bird watcher and made time for this past time every Wednesday on her afternoon off from work.
1:11.0	Late in the evening, on the 9th of November 1966, her octogenarian husband informed police that she never made it home.
1:21.0	In the dark of night, they found her car on the shoulder of the road next to Hodgemore Wood.
1:26.0	A search of the immediate area proved unsuccessful and with poor lighting provided by flashlights, they decided to wait for morning to resume their search.
1:36.0	The following afternoon, they found the doctor's bludgeon body in the heart of the woods.
1:42.0	She had suffered a brutal, relentless attack.
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