Episode 346: The Unsolved Murder of Lillian Armstrong

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On Halloween night 61 years ago, 70 year old Lillian Armstrong didn’t show up for choir practice. When her cousin couldn’t get her to answer the door the next day, she called the police. Inside her home, Lillian had been murdered, but despite the large amount of blood at the scene and investigators interviewing almost every resident of Newcastle, her murder remains unsolved to this day. Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Okay, welcome back everybody. I know this might not be what you were expecting today,
0:29.4	but unfortunately this is not going to be part two of the Menendez brothers.
0:34.9	Andrea had a medical emergency and she is unable to record today.
0:39.9	She is okay. She is recovering and she will be back soon, but right now she is unable to record, and she is so, so, so sorry that this is not part two of the Menendez brothers that the episode that we promised is not coming out yet but this obviously was very unexpected and completely out of Andrea's control and it's something
1:06.4	that happened and we're just thankful that she is okay and recovering and that episode will come
1:12.4	out eventually, we promise we promise but today I have a
1:15.0	super interesting case for you guys it's one that I had never heard of until I
1:20.0	was literally just searching cases related to Halloween and it's an unsolved case and it's
1:27.5	wild because there is almost just no nothing. There's no suspects. There's very little evidence. It's super
1:35.8	interesting and it's one that I had never heard of, so I wanted to share it with
1:39.7	you all today. So with that, let's just get into it.
1:44.0	Edo Ridley went to her cousin's home on the morning of November 1st, 1963.
1:49.0	The home on Golds Pink Lane in Sandiford, Newcastle-upon-time in the UK was known as Doncaster
1:56.0	House, and the morning after Halloween 1963, it was unusually quiet. The curtains were still drawn and retired school teacher
2:06.0	Lillian Armstrong wasn't answering repeated knocks at her door. Concerned, Aida called the police and when a sergeant arrived and entered the house, he found a horrific scene.
2:19.0	Catherine Lillian Armstrong, who went by her middle name Lillian, was born on April 3rd, 1893 in Pembroke
2:26.7	Wales and she had one younger sibling and her family moved to various parts of England
2:32.2	and Wales throughout her life.
2:34.0	When Lillian was 18, the family lived in Devonport
2:38.0	and that's when she started her career as a school teacher.
2:41.0	Eventually, the family moved to Newcastle in northeast England,
2:46.0	and Lillian really worked in the education system
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