SYMHC Classics: The Hagley Woods Murder

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This 2016 episode covers a skeleton found in a tree near Birmingham, England in 1943. More than 70 years later, it's still unknown who the deceased was and how the body ended up in an elm tree.

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0:00.0	My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.
0:04.5	But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.
0:10.1	And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.
0:12.6	And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.
0:18.1	And why John Carpenter movies are so good.
0:20.6	You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.
0:26.6	And that's fine, you know, no judgment.
0:28.4	But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:58.4	Hold a restorative justice leader, Daniel Serred and other notable people about how to make sense of this moment.
1:04.4	Listen to some of my best friends are on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.4	What if you had the chance to change the past?
1:14.4	December 27th, 1996.
1:17.4	And create the future you've always dreamed of.
1:22.4	I'm Horns Epic Productions and I Heart Radio, bring you a new 12-part scripted audio time travel adventure. Join Nikki and her friends as they travel back to the 90s and change the past to save our future.
1:34.4	Listen to Nikki Fix's Time Mix on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:43.4	Happy Saturday. It is October 1st, the start of the best month of the year.
1:48.4	So today's Saturday classic pulls from our previous October episodes. It is the Hagley Woods murder, which we covered on Halloween of 2016.
1:57.4	This murder inspired graffiti that continues to appear today with variations on the question, who put Bella in the witch-hill?
2:06.4	An update that I don't actually think has made it into an installment of Unearthed in 2018, Professor Caroline Wilkinson and Sarah Shrypton from Face Lab, Liverpool, John Wars University, used photos of the skeletal remains of this person who's become known as Bella to create a reconstruction of what she may have looked like.
2:28.4	That reconstruction has appeared in various books and TV shows, but the mystery of what happened to this person remains unsolved.
2:36.4	So enjoy this story.
2:41.4	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.
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