Is This Case Doomed To Remain Unsolved? - August 27 2025
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Morning Cup of Murder
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
| 0:02.6 | When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
| 0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
| 0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
| 0:12.0 | A cup of murder. |
| 0:14.7 | There are some cases that seem doomed to remain unsolved from the moment they are discovered. |
| 0:21.0 | On August 27, 1974, a body was found in Norfolk, England, one that from the very beginning |
| 0:28.9 | had one major issue stopping police from proceeding with the case. |
| 0:34.6 | So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
| 0:42.1 | On August 27, 1974, a 19-year-old tractor driver, Andrew Head, was out walking in Norfolk, England, when he stumbled upon a gruesome discovery. |
| 0:57.1 | Lying there on the land belonging to a man named Peter Roberts was a mysterious lump under some covering, and when he lifted up the corner, |
| 1:03.8 | he saw a human body. He immediately ran home to call the police. When officers arrived at Break Hill Farm, they found the badly decomposed body of what appeared |
| 1:15.5 | to be a female. |
| 1:17.2 | After Combine Harvesters were used to clear the field to allow the area to be more easily |
| 1:21.9 | searched, investigators learned that this woman died either in the first or second week of August, |
| 1:28.9 | that she was somewhere between 23 to 35 years old, was 5 foot to 5 foot 2 inches tall, |
| 1:35.9 | and that she was wearing a pink 1969 Marks and Spencer's nightdress. |
| 1:40.9 | She was also bound by both her hands and legs, and her head was nowhere to be found. |
| 1:48.0 | Later, called the Norfolk Headless Body, she was wrapped up in a plastic sheet embossed with the |
| 1:53.6 | words National Cash Registers, which was identified by a collector in the U.S. as being from a |
| 1:59.2 | payroll machine, and with her was a length of rope |
| 2:02.4 | that was made with four strands. Unusual, as they are typically made with three or five strands, |
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