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True crime can be strangely fascinating.

This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.

Welcome to fantastical crime.

Murder is a ghastly matter.

At the hands of a loved one, it truly becomes heinous.

Most murder victims are murdered by someone they know,

and a high percentage are killed by either a lover or spouse.

This is not a new statistic.

History proves that to be a fact.

Polstead-Suffick, England was not a place where one would

expect a murder to occur, particularly in 1827. But a crime of passion did take place here,

and a young woman was left dead. The horrifying murder was nicknamed the Red Barn murder,

because of the location of the murder. The paranormal takes center stage in the

solving of this crime as the victim's stepmother was visited by her spirit at night, three times.

And then there's the cursed skull of the murderer and his spirit.

Thomas Martin was a mole catcher in Suffolk, England. While mole catching doesn't sound very glamorous,

it was a lucrative business at the time, making more money than a teacher and about the same as a police

officer. And it took a very skilled professional. So Thomas was a valued member of society. He had two

daughters, Anne and Maria. Maria was a beautiful girl, and she caught the eye of many

men in the town, and she didn't mind catching the eye of the boys. Maria embraced the attention,

and also her sexuality. She ended up pregnant twice by two different men before she turned 24. This would be

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