S05E10 | The 'Beauty in the Bath' Murder of Cynthia Bolshaw

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the tenth and final episode of British Murders Season 5, I tell the tragic story of Cynthia Bolshaw.

Cynthia was murdered in her luxury bungalow in Heswall, the Wirral, on October 8, 1983, and her body was placed face down into 18-inch deep bathwater.

Police had no idea who the culprit was until advances in DNA technology led them to a suspect almost 16 years later in March 1999.

John Edwin Taft was eventually convicted of Cynthia's murder but always proclaimed his innocence.

Did the police catch the man responsible? Or was John Taft sent down due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

This season finale is a real-life murder mystery, and I'd love to hear your opinions about it.

⁣⁣For all things British Murders, please visit my website:⁣

https://www.britishmurders.com/⁣

Intro music:⁣

David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'⁣

https://linktr.ee/davidjohnbradymusic⁣

My recording equipment:⁣

Shure SM7B Vocal Microphone

Cloud Microphone Cloudlifter CL1

Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface

Rode PSA-1 Professional Studio Boom Arm

Sony CX450 Handycam

Recorded in:⁣

Hindenberg PRO

Edited in:⁣

DaVinci Resolve 17⁣

You can purchase 'The Serial Killer's Book of Haiku 2' by Rose Bundy here:⁣

https://amzn.to/3Kp7Mig⁣

References:⁣

www.britishmurders.com/cynthiabolshaw/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases with an occasional glimpse at horror movies.
0:22.4	I'm your host Stuart Blues and this is the 10th and final episode of season 5.
0:28.1	I'm ending the season with a debatable murder mystery case that had me trawling through hundreds of old newspaper articles.
0:37.1	It's a tragic yet fascinating story that I'd love to hear your thoughts on.
0:42.0	Before we get into it, let's break the ice as we always do.
0:45.8	The show's first opening icebreaker segment is this.
0:49.8	Welcome to Daddy Facts.
0:52.1	And here is this week's Dad Fact.
0:54.8	The first speeding ticket in the UK was handed out in 1896 to a man driving 8 miles an hour.
1:04.1	What a boy racer.
1:06.6	8 miles an hour.
1:08.4	You probably would get a ticket, a low speeding ticket. You can go too slow. The an hour. You probably would get a ticket, a low-speed and ticket.
1:12.2	You can go too slow.
1:14.2	The second and final opening icebreaker segment is this.
1:20.2	The serial killer's book of haiku.
1:24.5	And here is this week's haiku.
1:27.7	Knife hacks through bone, blood oozes, painstaking hard work, clearing up my mess.
1:37.7	A haiku is a Japanese poem made up of 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7 and 5.
1:44.1	It's also meant to be read in one breath.
1:46.8	There's a link to the serial killers book of Haiku 2, where I get these from.
1:50.9	It's by Rose Bundy.
1:52.2	The link is in the episode description if you're interested in buying it.
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