This week on Tales of History and Imagination we discuss a murdered nanny, the murderer… his awful ancestors, and said murderer’s mysterious disappearance. 

Trigger warnings: murder.   

Sources Include:

A Different Class of Murder by Laura Thompson

And several dozen news articles, including this piece from Lynn Barber interviewing John Aspinall

This one from Steven Morris on the many theories on Lord Lucan’s disappearance

This one (Morris and Angelique Chrisafis) on Jungle Barry (sometimes called Jungley Barry)

This article (author not listed) from the Whanganui Chronicle on an unpleasant man named Roger Woodgate 

This article by Gary Nunn on John Stonehouse

This Daily Mail article by Laura Thompson on the Taxi Driver hypothesis

And a handful of documentaries I never recorded at the time of writing the first attempt at this script a few years ago… 

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