Welcome to Season 3, Episode 18 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

Listener caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.

Margaret got into the driver's seat. She heard her husband call.

Drive carefully, darling.

She turned the key in the ignition.

Boom. Graham married Margaret in 1974.

He was in his early 30s and his new wife was in her mid-20s.

Graham hadn't chosen to take up a high-powered career that his public school education could have laid the

groundwork for. He worked as a hairdresser at Graham of Keynesham in Somerset, a job that gave him

the chance to meet women. It was an opportunity Graham didn't pass up. He changed career paths

before he got married, returning to run the family business with his father Charles at Whidenhill Farm in Horton Village, Gloucestershire, where they bred British freezing cows.

Graham having no experience of running a farm started learning the ropes.

In April 1973, the father and son were taken to court. A neighbor said they had stolen

four calves from his land. The court ruled in the neighbor's favor. The backhouses were each

fined 500 pounds with an additional 100 pounds for court costs. Charles Backhouse died in 1979, leaving the business, a pretty 18th century farmhouse and acres

of land to his son. Since they were married, Graham and Margaret had had two children, a son and a daughter,

and now appeared to be in an enviable position of inheriting

a thriving business too. Upon receiving the farm, Graham decided to make some changes. He switched

from farming cows to arable farming, growing crops. His idea didn't get off to a flying start.

Two years in a row, crops produced a poor harvest. A crop

disease called Take All had lived up to its name by obliterating everything in the fields. Now

Woodenhill Farm was losing money. The farm still had some cattle, so Margaret planned to drive into town to collect antibiotics

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