A Shooting In Furneux Pelham / Colonel Riley Workman
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The television series ‘Midsomer Murders’ has been on-air since 1997. In a fictional rural setting, each episode of the British crime drama sees an individual harbour dark secrets as part of the ongoing whodunnit murder mystery. In a curious twist of life imitating art, the picturesque village of Furneux Pelham in Hertfordshire became an unwitting backdrop for a real-life murder mystery in 2004. An elderly man had been found dead on the front doorstep of his Grade II listed cottage. News outlets dispatched reporters to Furneux Pelham, and the media began to draw parallels between the murder and the fictional television series. As time passed and the crime went unsolved, life in Furneux Pelham slowly returned to normal. However, sometime later, a jailhouse confession would thrust the village back into the spotlight…
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| 1:01.2 | The television series Mid-Summer Murders has been on air since 1997. |
| 1:09.3 | In a fictional rural setting, each episode of the British crime drama sees an individual harbour dark secrets as part of the ongoing |
| 1:12.5 | who-done-it murder mystery. In a curious twist of life-imitating art, the picturesque village |
| 1:20.5 | of Fernix Pelham in Hertfordshire became an unwitting backdrop for a real-life murder mystery |
| 1:26.7 | in 2004. |
| 1:29.4 | An elderly man had been found dead on the front doorstep of his grey-two-listed cottage. |
| 1:36.6 | News outlets dispatch reporters to Fernix Pelham, and the media began to draw parallels between |
| 1:42.9 | the murder and the fictional television series. |
| 1:46.8 | As time passed and the crime went unsolved, life in Fernix Pelham slowly returned to normal. |
| 1:54.8 | However, sometime later, a jailhouse confession would thrust the village back into the spotlight. |
| 2:01.7 | This is a place where people move to to escape inner city crime and live out their rural |
| 2:07.1 | dream, but it was a tranquil dream that ended when Mr. Workman was shot. |
| 2:13.9 | Welcome to Season 8, Episode 23 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 2:31.2 | In the heart of Hartfordshire lies the idyllic village of Fernix Pelham, a place that seems |
| 2:37.7 | suspended in time. It's surrounded by rolling fields, and at its centre the imposing St Mary |
| 2:45.5 | the Virgin Church stands taller than any other building. The village has a pub and a primary school, |
| 2:53.3 | both serving as anchors for the close-knit community. |
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