The Erdington Murders

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Two women with a striking amount in common are murdered on the same day, in the same park 157 years apart. Are Joe and Caldoni on the trail of a deathless serial killer? A time travelling desperado? A town with a dark secret? Or something even more sinister?

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.9	This is The Shocking Details.
0:14.5	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.
0:19.2	I'm Joe, joined as always by the other guy. Yeah, exactly,
0:24.0	that other guy. Vincent, Vincent. Yeah, yeah, that's your name. Well, this week, we've got a murder mystery for you.
0:29.8	Because I don't know that we've had enough murder and mayhem lately, so, you know, here we go.
0:34.3	We're going to talk about two murders that appear to be related.
0:38.5	And they have the same victim profile.
0:40.7	They took place in the same spot, same ammo.
0:44.0	So you'd suspect the same killer, right?
0:46.2	I mean, yeah.
0:46.9	It sounds exactly the same.
0:48.6	Except for this one little thing.
0:50.5	The second killing took place 157 years after the first killing. It appears that we
0:56.1	are looking at a very long-lived perpetrator in this case, or something. We're going to talk
1:01.5	about that in theories. If these two are indeed related, it's kind of scary. And this, as a warning,
1:08.1	by the way, to our UK listeners, you may well have heard of this one. It's the
1:11.8	Ardington Murders, which Arrington is a suburb of, used to be its own little village, but now it's a
1:17.4	suburb of Birmingham, which, of course, you know, you're familiar with it if you watch
1:21.1	peeky blinders, but if you don't, it's a city, an industrial city about halfway between Liverpool and London. Let's start with the most recent murder.
1:28.6	Barbara Forrest is 20 years old, and she's last seen in the wee small hours of the morning of May 27th, 1974, by her boyfriend, Simon Belcher.
1:39.3	They'd spent the night out hitting the pubs in Birmingham, England, and he walked her to a bus stop and watched her get on the number 67 bus.
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