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Criminal

The Bodies in the Bog

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1984, a local newspaper reporter outside of Manchester, England, got a tip from the police. A foot had been found in a nearby bog. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, and members-only merch. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.0

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0:13.7

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0:18.4

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:40.0

On that day, I was sitting there I was a bit bored because we'd gone to print so everything in the office relaxed. It was hot and all of a sudden phone rings.

0:45.0

In 1984, Rachel Pugh had recently started working for a local paper called the Wilmslow World just out of Manchester in England.

0:56.1

One of the things that I'd done was to build up very good relationships with the police.

1:01.2

And they said to me, oh Rachel, we've found a foot, which kind of brought me up short.

1:08.6

A foot has been found in the moss.

1:12.2

Get out there straight away. So I got on my

1:16.7

racing bike with my brand new beige shoes. As you can see see really good fashion choice which I was

1:26.0

wearing for the first time that day out of my bought out of my wages and

1:30.9

legged it out here to the farm, which was where they were extracting the peat.

1:38.0

Pete is a spongy layer of soil found in wetlands.

1:43.7

It forms when dead plants don't fully decompose.

1:47.2

When it's cut and dried, it can be used as fuel.

1:51.9

A man cutting peat that day in a ball called Lindo Moss had spotted what he thought was a piece of wood.

1:59.2

When he cleaned it off, he saw that it had toenails. When I got there, the police had just left taking the foot with them,

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