Episode 73: The Pottery Cottage Massacre | A Bloodbath in the Snow Part II

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we cover a callus criminal who is responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in 1970s England. In part two of our two part series we present to you the 55 hours of hell the escaped Billy Hughes put the Moran/Minton family through.

Sources:

Title: The Pottery Cottage Murders: The first-hand account of a family held hostage

Author(s): Carol Ann Lee, Peter Howse

ISBN: 1-4721-4393-0 / 978-1-4721-4393-8 (UK edition)

https://www.the-sun.com/news/488613/slaughtered-one-by-one-as-girl-10-lay-dead-next-to-her-dolly-how-axe-maniac-took-family-hostage-in-3-days-of-terror/

https://blackpoolcrime.wordpress.com/category/billy-hughes-blackpool-pottery-cottage-murders/

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0:00.0	Presenting Hop On Board, a podcast series by Southeastern, six podcasts, six celebrity
0:06.2	hosts, taking you on a whistle-stop tour of some of the best places to explore by rail
0:10.8	on the Southeastern network.
0:12.4	Join Greg Wallace as he tucks into delicious food and drink, rav-wilding, uncovering unsolved
0:17.7	mysteries and spooky happenings, and Miranda Sawyer getting arti on the Ken Coast.
0:22.7	Get the inside track on Kenton East Sussex with Hop On Board, listen now wherever you
0:27.1	get your podcasts.
0:30.3	Hey guys, welcome to part two of episode 73.
0:34.3	This is the true crime couple.
0:36.2	Okay?
0:37.2	And I'm John.
0:38.2	So we have been really eager to get back to you with the follow up episode on Billy Hughes
0:42.5	and the massacre at Pottery Cottage.
0:45.6	Before we begin, we just wanted to wish all of our listeners well.
0:48.8	We hope you're safe and home, and if you or any of your loved ones are ill, we hope for
0:53.2	a speedy recovery.
0:54.9	Also, at the end of this episode, we're going to have a shout out for all of our new Patreon
0:59.4	donors thanking them for all that they do for us.
1:02.6	In the meantime, let's get our minds off of all this craziness and loser selves in a case
1:07.8	about a different kind of survival.
1:10.1	Where we left off, Billy Hughes, a longtime criminal and serial abuser, had managed to
1:15.1	escape custody by using a stolen knife to nearly kill his two accompanying officers.
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