The Murder of Julia Wallace

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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We're crashing back to earth this week with the lesser known story of William Herbert Wallace and his wife Julia. This is a case named over and over again as the quintessential murder mystery, despite its relatively unknown status. For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:58.6	Lacking the infamy of the Black Dahlia or Jack the Ripper, the murder of Julia Wallace often flies under the radar. Set in Liverpool to the backdrop of a bitterly cold winter.
1:04.0	It is a visceral murder case with very few thought-right answers.
1:08.0	Contemporarily described as one of the most diabolically ingenious murder mysteries of modern times.
1:15.0	Tonight we turn our eye on the life of William Herbert Wallace and the sudden unresolved
1:19.7	murder of his wife Julia.
1:22.4	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
1:35.0	Hello and welcome to Dark History season 2 episode 16.
1:38.0	I'm Ben and tonight I've got a story that
1:41.0	after the last couple of weeks is a little bit more down to earth, a little bit
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