Welcome to Sohu Strangler Week by Murdwell. To accompany the series, here's a few extra

details from the police files and the court records. To age your enjoyment and maybe even

help you grant the case. This episode is about the lies created by the

public. So it's shocking to think that when we're dealing with the murder

investigation where clearly someone has died in a very traumatic way and there's a

lot of people who are very upset and police with a very strict timeline trying

to work out who did what to who and when and for what reason that it would be

baffling that someone would actually lie to the investigation but people do.

And there's a multitude of reasons why it's not just straight out of lies.

There's obviously little white lies and misinterpretations but do you know

people do it because they want to help. They have a misbelief about what they

have either seen or heard. Some people do it because they deliberately want to

frustrate the investigation and others do it to get friends, ex lovers,

colleagues into trouble. So we're going to dive into a couple of things that

cropped up during the Soho Strangler killings. So during the murder of

FIFA I focused on these ones because this was around a time before the press

had kind of really got very excited and we're getting excited about the Soho

Strangler and what it could be and that it's potentially a serial killer.

This was just a very ordinary murder. The murder of French FIFA was quite

ordinary. It was one of these cases that's going to be forgotten. So I felt it

was better to kind of focus on this one so we can get a really good idea

about about the information that people pass on to the police. So the police

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