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You are now listening to British Brothers.

This will cry podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast focusing exclusively on British murder cases and serial killers.

I'm your host Stuart Blues and this is the first part of my end of season special for season 11 in which I tell the

stories of Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth who were murdered in Narborough and Enderby, Leicestershire

in 1983 and 1986. In this first part I explore the lives of Linda and Dawn while delving

into their respective murders.

I'll also discuss the first three years of what would eventually be a four-year hunt for justice,

culminating with the wrongful arrest of an innocent man.

Next week, I'll start by discussing a revolutionary discovery that changed history and led to the actual perpetrators arrest and conviction,

whilst also providing some background information about the person responsible for murdering Linda and Dawn.

Before we get into it, let's break the ice.

The show's first opening icebreaker segment is this.

True facts that sound like both.

Did you know that fear of premature burial was so widespread in 18th and 19th century Europe,

it led to the invention of the safety coffin?

Over 30 different designs were patented in Germany in the second half of the 19th century,

with the most common element being a mechanism

that allowed those buried inside a coffin

to ring a bell which was placed above ground.

You might have seen that in the odd horror film.

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