MYW: Cornwall’s Murderous Love Triangle

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Iain tells the story of an 1844 love triangle that ended with the infamous murder of Charlotte Dymond; the girl with the green dress.

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0:48.6	Hello and welcome back to another murder you wrote episode with Laura Whitmore and Ian Sterling.
0:50.5	Oh, it's exciting, isn't it?
0:51.7	I do like a murder euro episode because we get to just go...
0:54.4	We get to travel to all these international destinations. Where are we going today? Well, this week we're going to somewhere that does look international when the weather is nice because we're going to Cornwall. Cornwall reminds me of France, like the South of France Fives. It's beautiful. Mm-hmm. And we're going to start this episode a little differently, Laura, because my caramel fun fact for today
0:52.0	involves a mermaid.
0:53.1	Do you know what I was
0:54.1	yesterday it was all about mermaids
0:55.7	we had a merma And we're going to start this episode a little differently, Laura, because my carmel fun fact for today involves a mermaid.
1:11.8	Do you know what?
1:13.3	Yesterday it was all about mermaids. We had a mermaid dress on. Our daughter is so into mermaids right now. They're into mermaids. We played a mermaid memory game. We saw a mermaid. I might have lied about that to try and get what I wanted. Well, yeah. Well, this is why this changes to my fact of the day
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