The Erdington Murders
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🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This is a different sort of episode to tide everyone over until I'm back to work! Healthy vibes for my household, please. Two women were killed in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington and were dumped in what is now known as Pype Hayes Park. The main suspect in both cases was a man named Thornton. Only thing is, the women died 157 years apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Two women were killed in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington, and were dumped in what is now |
| 0:16.0 | known as Pipehase Park. The main suspect in both cases was a man named Thornton. The only |
| 0:23.1 | thing is, the women died 157 years apart. I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines. |
| 0:38.9 | For those who listened last week, you know I have sick kids, and I wasn't sure I was going to |
| 0:43.9 | get anything out this week. I really wanted to get something out because one 2020 is my |
| 0:52.5 | content creating gear. It's what I'm focused on. And the sick kid thing blew up as it moved |
| 0:59.5 | through the house. It was a very unfortunate domino situation. Even my husband ended up getting sick. |
| 1:07.1 | I know everyone understands if I skip a week because of family stuff and I want to thank the people |
| 1:12.2 | who have actively reached out to check in to see how things are going. And also to tell me, |
| 1:18.8 | don't worry if you need a week off. We know family stuff. We know life. We've been there ourselves. |
| 1:23.8 | Sometimes I do need to step back because I am just so overwhelmed. But then also sometimes I need |
| 1:30.1 | to focus on the episode, enjoy some normalcy of routine. And getting something out on time |
| 1:38.4 | is what I need because it means I accomplished something other than sitting on the couch, |
| 1:43.6 | cuddling babies, which I know is important. But it also can be draining in its own way. |
| 1:50.2 | So I decided that this week I needed the normalcy and to work some extra brain cells. |
| 1:56.6 | But the problem is I didn't have the time. And if you've listened to Rusty Hinges, the show I write for |
| 2:04.0 | just skip this episode because it's pretty much the same episode done over there. The kids being |
| 2:11.3 | out of school and daycare just meant I couldn't research something totally fresh. I look through |
| 2:18.0 | the episodes I've done for Rusty Hinges and I'll confess I'm plagiarizing myself this week. |
| 2:24.4 | This is kind of the type of unsolved mystery that we would cover on insight in the early days. |
| 2:30.4 | I like these kind of mysteries. It combines true crime with something that just doesn't make sense |
| 2:35.2 | this overwhelming coincidence. And so you can tell by the title, this is the Erdington murders. |
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