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Morning Cup of Murder

The Body In The Back Yard - October 6 2023

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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CHECK OUT MERCH: https://www.bonfire.com/store/morningcupofmurder/ Listen to our spin-off show! The Cryptid Catalog: (Scary stories for kids) Hosted by Korina Biemesderfer and Killian Biemesderfer https://open.spotify.com/show/7vwn8JNkTPOmxwRoHsVDc1 Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written, and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on Instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode was collected from: Website: https://morningcupofmurder.com/ October 6th: Edwina Boyle Disappears (1983) Sometimes the answers to the biggest questions can be right under our noses. On October 6th 1983 a woman disappeared in a case that had all the answers just sitting there in the middle of the backyard. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/edwina-boyles-body-found-in-a-green-metal-barrel-a-decade-ago/news-story/6d8724960c0b2e7ad76f4b9079ddca47, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27For+16+years+I+thought+Careesa%27s+mum+was+inside+and+I+was+cutting+it...-a0174188215, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7301511.stm, https://www.smh.com.au/national/man-hid-wifes-remains-for-23-years-20080131-1p99.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:13.0

A cup of murder.

0:15.3

Sometimes the answers to the biggest questions can be right under our noses.

0:20.4

On October 6th, 1983, a woman disappeared in a case that had all the answers just sitting there in the middle of the backyard.

0:29.2

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:36.2

Frederick William Boyle and Edwina Boyle immigrated to Australia in the year 1972.

0:42.3

Less than a decade later, on October 6, 1983, Edwina, now 30 years old, suddenly disappeared

0:50.4

without a trace.

0:52.4

According to the story, Frederick woke that morning to find his bed

0:55.5

empty and a small note left behind. Reading it, his wife wrote that she was having an affair with a

1:02.0

truck driver named Ray, and that she was running away with him and leaving behind both Frederick

1:06.9

and their two daughters. Though many wondered where she was and how she could leave her children behind, Frederick Boyle spent the next two decades tight-lived about the real whereabouts of his beloved wife.

1:21.0

You see, what no one knew at the time was that it was Frederick who had been having an affair with a woman who, just two days after his

1:28.4

wife disappeared, moved into the house with him and his daughters. And in order to secure this

1:34.3

new life for himself, he first had to get rid of Edwina. While everyone looked for her, Edwina

1:40.5

Boyle's body lay in a metal drum that sat in the backyard of the family's home for decades.

1:47.3

That means decades of children playing, of parties, and of get-togethers, where everyone,

1:52.7

completely unaware, stood just feet away from solving the mystery of her disappearance.

1:58.1

Now, as the years passed and no signs of Edwina ever turned up, police

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