Disclaimer. This podcast contains elements that may be alarming to some listeners. The case discussed in this episode is real and represents the worst day in many people's lives. While I strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. Due to the nature of the content, listener discretion is advised.

You are now listening to British Murders, Stuart Blues, a podcast focusing exclusively on listener suggested British murder cases.

This is the first episode of season 17. And for those of you who may be new here, that introduction you've just heard is voiced by my daughter, and she also voices a couple of jingles from my two opening icebreaker segments, the first of which is this.

True facts that will blow your mind.

Did you know that humans are the only primates whose brains shrink as the age?

Age-related loss of brain volume may be the price we pay for outliving our reproductive years as we have longer lives than our primate cousins.

Now it's time for the show's final opening icebreaker segment.

Random quote of the week.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

That was said by Albert Einstein.

This case was requested by listeners Matt, Grace and Instagram user Melty Trip.

We're in the town of Warrington this week, located in Cheshire, northwest England.

It's 16 miles east of Liverpool, 16 miles southwest of Manchester, and 166 miles northwest of London.

Here are five quick-fire facts about Warrington.

Number one, in 1987, Warrington became home to the very first IKEA store in the UK.

It marked the beginning of the Swedish Furniture Giant's expansion across the country.

Number two, Warrington was a major hub for wire manufacturing in the 19th century.

Its wireworks produced materials used in everything from suspension bridges to pianos

and even helped build the fourth bridge in Scotland.

Number three, Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures

in Wonderland, had family connections to Warrington and it's believed that area influenced some

of his work.

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