The Phantom of the Forest: Episode 335
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When Police Constable David Haigh was asked to deliver a summons to a poacher, it was quite a routine procedure for a police officers covering such a rural area. However, when the officer failed to return and couldn’t be contacted, his colleague PC Mick Clipston was sent out to find the missing officer. As he approached the tree lined, picnic area known as Norwood Edge he came upon a police car in a clearing at the side of the road with the doors open.
As he got closer and parked he could see somebody was laid next to the car. To his shock and great distress, it was the dead body of his colleague, with a single bullet wound in the middle of his forehead.
And more murders would follow.....
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Sources
- https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/prudom-barry.htm
- https://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Prudom
- https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/leeds-phantom-forest-serial-killer-20499804
- https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7933616.gunning-for-barry-prudom/
- https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/06/phantom-forest-story-barry-prudom/
- https://thestrayferret.co.uk/40-years-ago-today-pc-david-haigh-was-murdered-in-beckwithshaw/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvK937WDtw
- https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/it-heartbreaking-unless-youve-been-involved-nobody-can-really-understand-1882137
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 335 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam. Today we head |
| 0:08.0 | into the world of serial killers, where we hear about a brutally violent man who killed |
| 0:13.6 | with ease. A huge thank you to Matrix Senior for the research and writing of this week's |
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| 1:31.2 | Now have you listened to the Troubles podcast yet? Would you mean no? Let me point you to |
| 1:36.6 | another excellent episode from Oshin earlier this year. In the three funerals of Frank |
| 1:42.4 | Stagg, he tells us how Frank Stagg was a Republican prisoner from Ireland who died on hunger strike |
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